by Onestepmore » Sun 06 Jan, 2013 6:23 pm
Some tips about regifting.
Always label the item with the name of the person who originally gifted it to you - saves embarassment when you give a gift back several years later to the person from whom it was originally given.
Such as....the watermarked paper and pens I purchased in Italy that I gave to my Mum, and sunsequently received as a present about five years later. SPRUNG!
I confess I have perpetuated the idea of The Present Box
When you get stuck, there is always a ready supply of nicely presented bath bombs, packs of body lotion and shower gel, bottles of undrinkable lambrusco, and I always top it up with a few of those boys' presents like those interactive books with 'thing's in them from the sale tables in shopping centres for when my son presents me with a party invitation on Saturday morning for a party I didn't know about on that Saturday afternoon and I'll be at work.
We can learn a lot from crayons. They come in different shapes and colours, but they all have to live in the same box