another re-gifting question

[geekchick]

For the folks who said that they wouldn't re-gift but wouldn't mind receiving one if it was thoughtfully given, why would you do one but not the other? Not that I'm making any judgement on such things, I'm just wondering why people consider one okay but the other not. *curious*

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[firinel.livejournal.com]

(I didn't answer that way, so I'm just suggesting) It might be because they're aware that others might be offended by it were they to find out they were given a regifted present, so to avoid that all together they'd just not regift. That sound good/plausible?

[geekchick]

Seems plausible to me.

Personally, if I would love to have a mumblefrotz, and a friend knows this and gives me a mumblefrotz as a gift, I'm not really particularly distressed over whether they had to go brave the mauls to get it for me or they pulled it out of their closet where it's been collecting dust in its box ever since Great-aunt Bertha gave it to them last Christmas. Heh, if I really like someone, I'd probably be happiest if they didn't have to brave the holiday mauls for it. ;)

[points.livejournal.com]

Mostly because most folks know I'm really not keen on receiving gifts most of the time.. so if someone gives me something, I'd like to think that most of the time, for some reason, they think I either really need it, or will enjoy it. As such, just passing it on as another gift seems a bit on the not kosher side for me. On the -other- hand, if someone -needs- something I've got, gifted or otherwise, I usually have no issue with just 'lending' it out on a permanent basis. For some reason, to me, that has an entirely different feel to it.

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

It's like being lawful good. Just because you follow certain rules doesn't mean you expect everyone else to follow the exact same ones. That and you're always getting stabbed in the back by that damn chaotic neutral thief in the party, boo!

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

I've changed my tune on this one. As a child, I was taught that gifts were sacred, and disposing of them in any fashion (unless they were perishable) was an insult to the giver. However, I only held myself to these standards, I didn't mind if other people regifted things, it seemed an efficient form of recycling. But some fairly wretched actions on the part of my family destroyed the idea that giving a fig about gifts was something they cared about, unless it happened to be convenient to them.

Not that I'm bitter.