Almost three weeks ago I started a discussion on BlogCatalog on this subject. The question I asked was quite simple: what do you do with gifts you don’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 someone’s birthday comes up and give it to them)
• - “white elephant” gift exchange ( which is a party game played during Christmas season; the participants are supposed to bring one gift that they received but they don’t like and they all leave with another one. An approximate value or type of gift is usually decided ahead: “under $10” or “Christmas ornaments under $15” 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 store (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 value…

Do you have any other ideas? Leave us a comment!

Note: I would like to say THANK YOU to all those who participated to my discussion on BlogCatalog.

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