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Originally posted by Fugee
My mom loves stuff like crystal angels so I will put it in her stocking from Santa. (I hang stockings for my parents at their house and put in little gifts just for fun.)
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The only regifting I ever, ever do goes on with my sisters.
My mother does all of her Christmas shopping the day after Christmas and sends us (there are 4 girls in the family) stuff which we all hate. I always get together with at least one of my sisters and we open the gifts my mother sends, roll our eyes or express absolute horror and then have a drink or 5 and ask each other what our mother could possibly have been thinking when she was shopping.
One year my mom sent one of us (can't remember which) an ugly sweater and that sweater has made the rounds every year back and forth among the sisters. A number of years ago, mom sent us all Thanksgiving salt and pepper shakers (that look like fat, drunk pilgrims with shotguns) for Christmas (there must have been a clearance sale at WalMart) and we have sent those around as well. The game is to be the one who doesn't end up with the ugly pilgrims.
So, I am only in favor of re-gifting when it involves some twisted commentary on family disfunction among me and my sisters. Our husbands, by the way, are mystified about why we do this or find it hilarious but they do hate it when the pilgrims come to live at our house for the year.
Last year it was Barbie Christmas ornaments from 1999....
