What Do You Do With Gifts You Don’t Like?

How many times have you received gifts that you didn’t really like? I bet there were quite a few…

Â Almost three weeksÂ ago I started a discussion on BlogCatalog on this subject. The question I asked was quite simple: what do you do with gifts you donâ€™t like?

Some of the answers I was kind of expecting, some others took me by surprise. Here are a few suggestions that I received (in no order whatsoever):

- regift ( wait till someoneâ€™s birthday comes up and give it to them)
- â€œwhite elephantâ€ gift exchange ( which is a party game played during Christmas season; the participants are supposed to bring one gift that they received but they donâ€™t like and they all leave with another one. An approximateÂ value or type of gift is usually decided ahead: â€œunder $10â€ or â€œChristmas ornaments under $15â€ or something like that)
- Sell them on Ebay (have you noticed how many gifts are on Ebay after Christmas?!)
- Church rummage sale
- Garage sale
- Neighborhood sale
- Donate them (as a tax write-off or just for a good cause: Goodwill)
- potluck clothes swap parties
- return them to the storeÂ (if you have the receipt, that is)
- just keep them in the closet and try to find a use of them…
- give them to a Toy drive on National AIDS Day (this was an interesting one!)
- keep them for sentimental valueâ€¦