Be Honest Have You Ever ....

[Bobbisox1]

Forward gifted anything ?
I have a friend that does it all the time which is why I 'suggested ' we stopped buying one another for Christmas , she looks at the labels like M&S for example and takes them back for vouchers, I couldn't do this , you?

[ToraToraTora]

bobbi: "Or stop buying altogether as 'we' did " - yep I've done a deal with every adult including err indoors to not buy each other presents. Err indoors buys a load of stuff for the Grandchild and that's it.

[barry1010]

Same as us, TTT. What a relief.

[Bazile]

Has anyone ever forwarded gifted any gold , frankincense or myrrh ?

[ummmm]

No, Rowan, I would never consider you beige :-)

My family is just too big to buy presents for. I will get a token gift for anyone who is coming to mine for dinner.

[Bobbisox1]

It's only the one person I've stopped buying for in my OP , I think she knew she'd been rumbled :0)))

[barry1010]

What's the point in keeping stuff you don't want and will never use? When my very old died we had to clear out her house and we found cupboards full of unused stuff that we presume had been given to her, including ancient boxes of chocolates and bottles of wine and spirits. I'm sure some of it was wedding presents, there were bed linens, crockery, cutlery and towels which she had probably been keeping 'for best'.
I know she sometimes struggled for money, it was upsetting to find hundreds of pounds worth of unused and unwanted things

[naomi24]

'Forward gifted'. I've never heard that expression - but now I have and understand what it means, no I haven't.

[maggiebee]

Heard a funny story on the radio yesterday. Mum buys "horrible" vase as a present for her daughter (daughter's words not mine). Daughter keeps it for a while then puts it in a charity shop. Couple of weeks later mum sees it and buys it so daughter can have a matching pair!

[emmie]

that's good ^^

[Prudie]

No I've never done that and rarely if ever exchanged anything. My mother used to buy me horrendous clothes id never wear but I always made appreciative noises so she kept doing it. Don't forget a lot of people take more pleasure in gifting than receiving and I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings by saying I don't like a gift.

[emmie]

my mother once gave me a horrendous teapot, i didn't have the heart to tell her it was hideous and was never used.

[emmie]

can't remember what happened to it thinking on it

[tomus42]

I've never done it. I think it's incredibly rude.

[ummmm]

My kids bagsy my stuff. They may as well just buy themselves stuff for xmas/b'days and just show them to me.

[TrevorThePug]

I receive gifts throughout the year, some of them quite valuable but more often than not one of the villagers will appreciate it more than me so I do pass things on. I wouldn't take something back to get vouchers, but they might, or they could sell it on eBay.

I never ask for gifts and tell people not to send them, so if they do send them, then they have been warned.

[teacake44]

I love doing it, and get a real buzz from doing so.

[douglas9401]

I more or less gave up the whole gift thing after the first time I saw an advert declaring 'stocking fillers from £25'.

I'd be looking for Rachel Riley to be filling the stockings at that price.

[rowanwitch]

No spare money at all, so just made cards and cut back just enough to buy my sister and her husband something very small and something for mum just superwide slippers, I will live on my store cupboard for a couple of weeks.

[Apc2604]

No, never have. But I have donated to raffle prizes in the past. Gifts such as bath cubes or soap usually.

[Bbbananas]

Of course