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.

My kids got Dove and Lynx 😐

No I'm not an idiot no one regifts that shit to someone they like

It's quite fancy for an everyday product. It comes out in a foam like shaving cream I think. Looks like that imperial leather foam burst sort of thing

No I can sort of smell it and I don't like foamy shower gel the texture is all weird

Was it Aesop? I’ll have it

The spirit of Christmas is so heart warming.

This is why I don't do gifts just money for the kids.

Give it to charity stop being such a cheapskate.

Why are people gifting shower gel?

That is weird... everyone knows those babliss & hardy/soap & glory/dove/lynxs gifts sets are generic shite that screams 'I had to socially give you a gift but don't care to put in any thought' but not even a gift set just a random shower gel they already buy as part of their standard grocery shop. So odd, like you are trying to passive aggressively tell them to wash more often, why not buy them milk, bread and potatoes they might regularly buy them too.

I think it’s odd to have given you the same one back.

It’s either an intended return regift (awful manners and a bit pass agg).

Or an unintended one cos it got put in a regift stash and they forgot you originally bought it (breach of regifting technique to forget who gave stuff to you).

Or perhaps they thought you liked it and that’s why they bought it for you. Some people do that with gifts: they choose almost the same thing you got for them because they think that’s the sort of thing you like (not best idea as people will think it’s a return regift).

Don’t give it back. If you don’t like the scent, maybe she doesn’t either. I never buy people stuff I don’t like myself, even if it’s something I’d never buy for myself/use if you get what I mean? And you’ll be as ill-mannered/pass agg as them unless you make it into a joke.

Ask your friends whether they’ve ever used that L’Occitane scent as you were thinking of treating yourself to it. And if any of them like it, regift it to them haha!

@OriginalUsername2 Dove and Lynx is slightly more fancy to what I normally buy.
I'd be happy with that.
@solopanda what's wrong with Baylis and Harding? I'm at my mother in laws and she has one of their shower cremes and it smells lovely.

I bought my SIL some fancy shower gel from a brand I knew she loved, she bought the same brand the next year but a different scent, I didn't like it at all though, I hate scented things so I gave it to a neighbour. So it could be that they thought you liked it too.

@housethatbuiltme to me shower gel/bubble bath is a Christmas gift classic along with new socks and chocolate.
It wouldn't be Christmas without those.

Our local Hospice often asks for shower gel, soap and shampoo donations for their patients on EoL.

Dh’s nana did it with a creepy doll. It kept appearing in our house or MIL would put it in my car and I’d find it when I got home. We’d sneak the fucker back when we visited and hide it in their house. Miss nana now x

There was a woman in the radio who's been gifting her DB the same whiskey bottle for 20 ish years. She takes it out his cupboard every year and regifts it

He must know and just doesn't let on surely

No idea what she gets from him every year

Sock also aren't really a gift.

I assume your the type that 'gift' your child socks, pants and toothbrush etc... but no matter how its dressed up those are just normal necessities.

The 'gift set' stuff technically classes as a gift (same way random food doesn't but a 'fancy hamper' does) but they are classically thoughtless ones. Random soap is not a gift to someone.

Clearly the recipient agreed, so people stating that shower gel is the greatest gift they can receive doesn't really matter, as like with the majority the receiver didn't like it and even returned it to the gifter so likely also found it passive aggressively insulting.

Yep, I know that. Twas a joke, in that most folk would be there for the food and not actually shower gel.

Wow

But why? I give things to people they like not that I like.

Agree it's a classic of the genre

@housethatbuiltme I love getting new socks.
Again it getting a fancier pair vs the basic pack of 5 from Primark.
Yes I am the type to give my child new socks and pants etc - she loves it.
She always gets in her stocking a Hot Wheels Car too. I didn't do it when she was about 12 and she was horrified I hadn't put one in the stocking. "how could you" she said with a sad face 😭
She gets Hot Wheels throughout the year so I suppose the Christmas one doesn't count as a gift either by your theory 😂

@Terrribletwos ooops sorry. That kind of went over my head 😂

At my son's party in December one of the guests returned the gift we'd given him in July. I'm certain it's the same one and they haven't just bought the same. Thinking of saving it until July.

@Needmorelego there's nothing wrong with Bayliss & Harding but it started life as the pound shop knock off of Molton Brown.

With kudos to their exceptional branding, that is now largely forgotten and Bayliss and Harding themselves seem to have spawned a load of copy cats.

But if "one" wants to be a snob about such things, then it's nouveau riche, the young imposter.

I wanna know how these exchanges start 😅 my brother gave me the same Christmas card this year as last year, and I only recognised it as it was so lovely I had it on the shelf until I moved house in October (as wasn't necessarily solely a Christmas image). I'm tempted to cover up the writing in one of them and give one of them to him next Christmas.