Too good to re-gift

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 22:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Re-gifting isn't an inherently bad idea, but the very idea that somebody is off-loading his or her unwanted holiday or birthday junk makes a re-giftee feel dirty and unworthy. Far worse is the deep, searing pain of the re-gifter -- the guilt, the shame, the stress of finding a matching re-gifted box, the fear of being caught and labeled unimaginative, cheap and uncaring. Yes, we're in a recession, your re-giftees want to scream at you, but couldn't you have at least tried? Look no further. The sports products below are personal, practical, effective and guaranteed to get a rise out of an active person. And they're so different from everything else out there that someone might think twice before re-gifting them.

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