National ReGifting Day – (A Hobbits Manthem!)

December 18th – National Regift Day

(Observed the Thursday before Christmas) In the tradition of Recycle-Reduce-Reuse – think about Regift!

In honor of holiday office parties and the “unique” gifts exchanged at them, the creators of Regiftable.com have declared the Thursday before Christmas to be National Regifting Day.

This is right up the Tukal Hut alley – this site offers suggestions like skipping the “gift exchange” type parties and throw a “re-gift” exchange party. We all receive things or have things that weren’t quite right for us. Why clutter your house and keep it, regift it!

Studies show that regifting is gaining popularity. Though you have to be careful – make sure the re-giftee doesn’t re-gift to your original re-gifter. (I saw a post with this scenario described!)

When I was in Junior High, we read JR Tolkiens book “The Hobbit.” I learned then that Hobbits had a tradition of giving “manthems.” Manthems were items they owned that they didn’t need or want and they would regift them – that gift is called a manthem. And they are absolutely given because the gifter knows the recipient will love the item. This is very important – don’t regift just to get rid of something! Since then I have been comfortable with regifting if I had something I thought someone else would love to have.

View the excellent Regift Guidelines here on the Regiftable site. This site also has some fun regifting stories others have posted. Visit eHow.com for some other regifting tips.

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