I have always understood the practice of re-gifting. It's practical and economical. Why let something go to waste when someone else could benefit from it? What's ordinary and useless to one could be wonderful and very useful to another. But some people must have missed the very purpose of re-gifting. It is not mindlessly passing off something you don't like to someone else just to get rid of it! Nor is it getting rid of something that's about to spoil or worse is ALREADY spoiled just because you seem to be under the impression that it is better than throwing stuff away! In case you haven't gotten the memo, let me tell you now..."Better to throw stuff ,especially food that you can't eat yourself than to give it away. You don't wanna cause someone indigestion or worse ,food poisoning, do you?"
I guess this is the reason why I don't look forward to the opening of gifts on Christmas day. I must have been scarred from the countless years that I was disappointed. Getting things from the same people year after year that is soooooo obviously an afterthought is so tiring. And yet, year after year I still HOPE that maybe this time, they'll get it right. What kinda stuff you might ask? Clothing that don't fit (by several sizes!), accessories that i won't wear or use because they are so obviously not my style (READ: can they REALLY see me wearing or using this?!?!), mugs (how many mugs can one person have? especially one who doesn't drink coffee?) and food stuff that is about to spoil or who's packaging is torn, dusty or rusty(must have been in the cupboard for ages!) (horror of horrors there were times that some of them even had molds already!)
