To regift shower gel to the person who gave it to me?

[solopanda]

Last Christmas I bought relative shower gel. Quite fancy but not amazingly so. This year I recieved the same shower gel back. Aibu to give it back to them for their birthday in April? I don't like it.

I'd be very happy with a bottle of l'occitane shower gel as a gift. It's good stuff.

I love the stories of people constantly regifting the same thing for decades. It’s brilliant as it’s a fun tradition and also reduces waste on buying things for the sake of it which often happens at Christmas.

So yes, regift it with a subtle mark so you can tell if it’s the same bottle if it’s ever given again to you.

Haha this sounds like our work Secret Santa a few years ago. We play a version where you can swap / steal gifts etc so the crap gifts end up getting passed back and forth quite a lot. This particular year there was a bottle of shower gel that absolutely no-one wanted. I’m not sure why, obviously it’s a bit boring but there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with it. I don’t recall the brand. Anyway the guy who ended up with it decided he absolutely didn’t want it and gave it to me so I got that as well as another gift. But for years after this shower gel had legendary status like “so who ended up with the shower gel?” “this year don’t bring anything crap like the shower gel!” and people shared memories for years after (And I never found out who brought it!)

Subtlety mark it, I’m dying… Ha ha!

it’s a sign of a genuinely close friendship with an in joke

i don’t think the OP has this kind of relationship with this person?

The same brand or the same scent? I like some L’Occitane stuff and not others.

I like many Roger & Gallet smells but I can’t stand Fleur de Figuier.

She obviously thought you liked it as you gave it to her.

To maintain moral high ground.... give that one to the food bank, buy another, mark it in a subtle way and give them the new one on the next possible occasion.

Either it will become a hilarious thing which goes back and forth but no one dares mention, or if they do say something, you just say how much you thought they liked it as they'd bought it for you too, so you got them another.

I second this. Perfect advice.

Maybe the regifting of the shower gel will bring them closer? 😂

@FelicityBennett 😂😂😂😂

I love this! What did the tea towel look like at the end?

it probably became a collector’s item!

Ha! A friend regifted a wine I brought to them in summer! I suppose Christmas is great for decluttering for some

Lol. This made me laugh. "Let them eat cake" or shower gel.😁

This x 1000

Mark the bottle in some obscure way and then re gift back at the next opportunity.
If it comes back to you.and the mark is there then you'll know it's the original.
You could have fun for years doing this

Same brand not the same scent. That might be where I went wrong

Is it Baylis and Harding? No one likes that.

This. There was a wonderful story about something similar to this in the New York Times years ago - the gift would be stealth wrapped in all sorts of forms and regifted among a family every Christmas. What started as a terrible gift became a lasting family tradition!

This
Don't entertain the tit for tat game

My late mil used to gift my children (not her grandchildren) shower gels and stand there beaming while they opened them.

I don’t understand giving toiletries as gifts. I chuck a shower gel into my teenagers’ room every time the asda shop arrives. It’s not a treat. It’s the same as toothpaste and tampons.

Just regift it to them and then you can pass it back and forth until of you passes and then whoever survives passes it on to the next generation.

@Terrribletwos "food bank" doesn't just mean food 🙄

We can only usually afford the basic own-brand shower gel. DH's distant relatives often buy me the fancier ones for Christmas, I bloody love it.

@OriginalUsername2 I love getting bubble bath as gifts. When I buy for myself it's unexciting stuff from the supermarket/Poundland. As a gift I often get slightly more fancy ones.

So you bought them something they possibly see as an every day necessity, as a gift?