regifting

There are approximately $30 billion in unused gift cards sitting in kitchens, wallets, car doors, and sock drawers. Don't be a statistic: Here's how to get cash for, or otherwise make productive use of, your unwanted gift cards.

Before heading out to the mall this weekend, look through the stack of unopened Christmas gifts from last year, because today is National Regifting Day. Since the third Thursday in December is the most popular day for office holiday parties (the source of many unwanted gifts), it is only fitting...

With more Americans regifting this holiday season, we thought we'd have The Emily Post Institute's Anna Post weigh in on regifting etiquette. Here are the rules: Good Gifts Only Regifting is perfectly acceptable, yet while this is a practical solution -- especially in an economy that's as weak...

The Christmas gifts have been unwrapped and all of the good stuff has been played with. And alone under a pile of wrapping paper sits the hideous sweater from a sweet aunt who doesn't know any better. What to do with the unwanted Christmas gifts you received? If you get a gift you'll never use, is...

For most people, the holidays are a time of gifts, fun, and family. But to Wharton economist Joel Waldfogel, the holidays are celebrated with an "orgy of value destruction." In his new book Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays, Dr. Waldfogel explains why gift giving is...

Leslie Lait immediately recognized the adorable, pale-blue, corduroy overalls she unwrapped at her baby shower. The infant-sized outfit with the tags still on was the same pair she had given to the very same friend, who was now regifting it back to her. Boomerang gifts are not new, and they're...

Three weeks later, the porcelain frog your cousin gave you for Christmas doesn't look so fun. Instead of hiding it away to regift next Christmas, barter it on the Internet for something you want. Coping With the Economy You don't have to just let unwanted gifts sit around in your...

This could go down as the year that regifting became a widespread Christmas tradition as millions of Americans, broke but in need of gifts to give, repackage those gifts they received in the past but never used. That's the hope behind a new UPS program, anyway. The UPSRegifter.com program works...