If you found a gift that you gave in the charity shop would you buy it again and take it to your mums house?

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If you knew For sure as you’d “inscribed” something under it

Suggestions please

LH of course !

It doesn’t say anywhere it’s a book. In fact quite the opposite.
The op said something is inscribed underneath. If it was a book it would say inside.

I remember hearing Ian McMillan (the Yorkshire poet) talk about finding a copy of a book he’d written in a charity shop. There was a personal dedication inside it that he’d written to someone he knew. He bought the book and sent it back to them.

Definitely rescue it!! Although you would have paid twice for the same item.

If it was gifted so long ago, they're likely just decluttering and it no longer has sentimental value to them.

Definitely rescue it!! Although you would have paid twice for the same item.

I wonder if it cost more or less 25 years later.

You have to rebut it - it's fate.

Q

When I emptied my Mums flat after her death, I took some of her many ornaments to a charity shop.Lots of brass things,and little china ornaments etc. I hadn't realised,that I had included a glass bird ornament.. I went back to the shop a couple of weeks later,and there was the glass bird on the shelf.

I was with my Mum.when she bought the glass bird, when she came to the USA to visit,I was living there for three years over 30 years ago. So I just had to buy back the lovely glass bird for the memory that it had evoked.

No.
But think twice about buying anything else.
As it 's your DM perhaps next time get a plant or a bit of grocery.

What's the matter with you lot? don't you drive miles to put your gift tat in charity shops far far away?

@ TabbyMctatTheBuskersCat - no was a Cancer Research. I’m (almost) sorry that some poor kid probably got it as a ‘nice present’ from someone.

And this is why I save all my charity shop bags for my fortnightly work trip to a town 25 miles away.

Lordfrontpaw

I would for a laugh (only if I thought the other person would be amused) and sneak it into their house next time I was there.

‘Oh I’m glad you still use the but bowl!’ And watch their face...

Love this

I think it would be hilarious to buy it and sneak it back in. The people saying buying presents for adults is silly are just miserable. I love to buy presents for my loved ones, there’s nothing like seeing the look on someone’s face when you buy them the perfect gift and often it’s something you’d feel guilty buying yourself. It makes me feel so special when someone thinks enough of me to buy me a gift.

OP, are you sure your DM would laugh if you gave her the present again? I would feel guilty, embarrassed, worried I'd hurt your feelings, humiliated, mortified, and therefore very pissed off indeed. I'd try to cover that up, probably be laughing if you laughed, but I'd feel gutted.

I would also never dare give a present away again.

Are you serious? It’s not the perfect gift, the owner has breathed a sigh of relief and chucked it in the charity shop!

I would buy it and sneak it back into the house.

We NEED to know what it is now

Be very careful. My friend inherited a horrible old electric range cooker when she moved. Spent much time planning its replacement when it finally did the decent thing and it died. And it did. Next day husband rushed home from the pub with the (totally unwelcome) good news that a neighbour was getting rid of the identical cooker, so he'd bought it for a very reasonable price. She was not best pleased..

This happened to Daddy Pig when he bought his ‘antique’ chair that Mummy Pig had sneaked to a school fete

I cannot see what is so funny about presenting your mother with a gift you originally bought her 25 years ago. Presumably she enjoyed it at the time but feels she wants to make room for something else.

Oh my, I have an enormous collection of a certain animal (Not llamas or flamingoes!) and I had a little clearout to a local jumble sale.
DS, aged about 5, bought all my donated animals with his pocket money because I loved that animal and "here's a whole lot of them for you mummy!"

Can you really not see the amusement??? Your life must be dull!!!

I can’t see any amusement (except in kelper’s case, but that because it was a little kid doing something cute in all innocence), and my life is far from dull. What a completely bizarre comment!

I’d buy it and sneak it back in or better still post it to her with a note like “I’m back”. My friends family has a creepy doll they hide in each others houses and wrap up for Christmas etc it’s so funny. The sister even sent it to be at work once to put under my friends desk 😂. Do it it’s only a bit of a laugh she doesn’t have to keep it agin

You definitely have to sneak it back in..... And maybe stick something on the bottom like 'gotcha'!