The holidays are right around the corner, and with it comes the inevitable sense of confusion and disappointment felt when receiving and dispensing with tacky Christmas presents.
Holiday experiences have a way of profoundly shaping your world-view as a youngster. You didn’t get the Big Wheel you wanted, you got the Hot Wheel and with it, a soul-crushing dose of reality at age 7.
Of course, by the time you hit your 20’s, the mystical allure of Christmas time has all but dissipated in a cloud of Obama-like false hope and shattered dreams. You now know that you will never receive the gifts that you long for, and have learned to cope with Santa’s failures.
But what do you do when you receive that extra-small Crazy Shirts from your distant uncle even though he knows you’re 6 feet 7 inches?”
Some people might use the opportunity as a way to pass along their burdens to someone else, effectively relieving you of the trouble this holiday comes with. This phenomenon is colloquially known as regifting.
This is a dangerous option however, because if the regiftee finds out that the gift you’ve given them has been regifted, they will know that you don’t really care about them enough to go out and purchase what appeals to them.
You simply played hot potato with a terrible gift, becoming a terrible friend in the process.
No, your best bet here would be to return the undesired item to the store in exchange for something that you actually want to wear, not something that you would have worn 10 years ago.
Why hold on to a gift you know you’ll never use just because granny doesn’t know that you stopped wearing Hurley in elementary school?
Go to T&C Surf and exchange that Hurley shirt for that RVCA button-up you’ve been too broke to afford.
Of course, if the person didn’t include a receipt with their gift, and they egotistically and illogically assumed that said gift would be of total value to you, immediately sever ties with them as they are probably a terrible friend.