'Tis the Season to Re-Gift
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You know what's really big this Christmas?
Re-gifting.
You heard me right.
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Taking a gift that was meant for you, and giving it to someone else.
I guess it says something about the tough economy that one in five of us is doing this now.
But it also says a lot about the person who's getting the re-gifted item: "You're not worth the trouble."
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Bottom line, "You're not worth going out to the store and shopping for."
Or put another way, "I didn't like this gift. In fact, I hated this gift, so I instantly thought of you."
Now what happens when said re-purposed recipient doesn't like this re-purposed gift either?
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And now he wants to re-purpose it too?
Give it to someone for whom he similarly feels little, if any, real emotion.
How big a loser does that next recipient have to be? Or the guy after him if that loser punts it along?
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Don't laugh. A retail expert told me it's not at all unusual for re-gifted items to pass along to five or more people, especially in this economy?
Can you imagine that? How would you like to be the fifth person in that re-packaged conga line?
Imagine being at the end of that cheapskate parade?
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Still, retail folks say it's the thought that counts.
And better to give something than nothing.
Which is weird when you realize that something cost you nothing.
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Which, I suspect, says something about the person you're giving it to.
Not that they're nothing.
Just close to nothing.
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They say friends and families are gifts.
But you know what?
They never said new gifts, did they?
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