Is it regifting to use a gift certificate to buy someone else a gift?

[JVS]

Have I done wrong?

[terrya]

1. No.

A gift certificate is for whatever you want to use it for. If you want to buy someone a gift using a gift certificate, go for it. Nothing wrong with it.

[hippywife]

2. Personally, I don't see anything

wrong with regifting at all, in any form. Why should I keep something that I may not be able to use but someone else might like or have a use for? As long as you don't give things back to the original person who gave it to you or to a person closely connected with them, I say go for it. No other rules should even apply.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Me neither. Especially when the gifts are hostess type gifts that you can't use.

[sarge43]

3. No

It's no different than using a credit card. IMHO

[ashling]

5. No, you are only certificating

shape shifting from certificate to gift ... It's like when my mother in law gives us money for Christmas and says: "now buy something for yourself, don't use it to pay bills" So then we use it to pay bills.

:shrug:

[Karenina]

6. This word "regifting" is new to me

I get there is some stigma involved, but for the life of me CANNOT figure out why! :shrug: Can anyone explain?

[MrSandman]

7. Regifting is cool....

Otherwise some of the stuff I get will lie around until I am so tired of it being in the way that I toss it.