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.

Ooh was it Molton Brown @solopanda? Tempting to give it back to the same person but maybe you should just stop gifting with that person from now on. I brought a load of unused toiletries to the Foodbank collection trolley at Tesco the other day and it does feel really good just to have it all gone!

I could be the gift that keeps giving 😆

Could you put a tiny little mark (like a dot using a pen) on the bottle so that you'll know if the same bottle is returned to you again later this year???

Don't be bloody daft. Is gifting make-up insinuating that the recipient is ugly? Perfume that they smell? Chocolate that they need to put on weight?

It's a cheap, cheerful gift, and is useful too. I always appreciate toiletries, because I usually can't justify buying myself anything that isn't Sainsbury's own brand.

A pigeon?

Foaming shower gel? Must be a Rituals one?
They are all nice!

Evil Santa like Amanda from Motherland?

Some people like fancy everyday. Some people's fancy is others everyday. Some people's everyday is others fancy.

If they have it in their bathroom already, I wouldn't assume they would have only ever been gifted it.

Actually- if your original gift was 12 months ago- check for use by date? If its fresh it should have 2 or 3 years on it probably.
And it doesn't matter if its a shit gift or not (weirdly bath salts/foam/bombs and nice handmade bar soaps are all things I'd consider gift worthy. Somehow shower gel feels more utilitarian)
As the appropriate response to a gift you don't like is ' oh how kind, thank you so much' not giving it back again!

Yes check the use by date to see if it's the same bottle. They might dislike it, but were given the bottle you saw 5 years ago and have been heroically trying to use it up since. Your gift broke them ad they count do a decade of it.

And don't ever mention it, just wrap it up even nicer every time.

I like the idea of present ping pong!

I got a shower scrub this Christmas, I’m not gifting it back to the giver though, as it’s one of my favourites from L’Occitane.

I did get a generic B&H set from work one year, but my mum took that off my hands as it was a ‘flavour’ she quite liked. I wasn’t offended by the set, I just didn’t like the smell (rhubarb).

There is so much tedious shite on TV at Christmas that I feel we need a programme based on the stories of all these people who have been giving the same teatowel/soap for fifty years/gifting things stolen from the office/ things 'found on the street'. Would be a gem.

My dad used to wrap up a tin of beans or a cabbage or some such and put them under the tree for us (my mum's favourite vegetable was cabbage). It was meant to be a joke (we got normal presents too) and in fairness we were amused by it. Went on for years!

I love shower gel as a gift! I can use it, it's not pointless tat and it doesn't clutter my house. I would even gratefully accept Bayliss and Harding. In fact, my children have bought me B&H over the years and I loved it. They might think you like it OP!

She's already said she doesn't like it

For someone being nippy, you're not paying attention

Who said it had been pre-used?

@Hertzdonut Start a thread please.

Oh FFS…

What did you think would happen as a result?

What did you think would happen as a result?

Jesus Christ.

I like receiving certain toiletries as gifts. I wouldn't spend £6 on a bar of soap for myself but my family know I like the neste dante soaps and similar so I often get them for Christmas and birthdays. They absolutely are a little bit of every day luxury for me - otherwise I'd be using Dove or Palmolive - what's not to love?

Me? Absolutely no idea, as I didn't do it?

This relative…. any backstory between two of you? You’re not… close , are you?