Advanced Regifting: Passing On

Article • 629 Words • Gifts, 2025 • 11/28/2025

This article is part of the Guide to Gift Giving Anthology.

A guide on how to regift by passing on your items to different people who would enjoy them better.

There are 664 words in this article, and it will probably take you less than 4 minutes to read it.

This article was published 2025-11-28 00:00:00 -0500, which makes this post and me old when I published it.

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I am a strong proponent of regifting. In that previous article of mine, I mostly detailed a defense of re-gifting, but in this article I aim to identify a few items and techniques that you may apply in order to become the best re-gifter that is possible.

I’m getting into gift “baskets”. I am definitely not going to give you a basket because I think that for most people that would be too much to have to store/take care of, but I think that giving multiple small gifts can be cheaper, more sentimental, and more fun for the gift receiver!

I think that having accumulating things and bundling them to pass on to people that will appreciate it (“re-homing items”) can be a powerful way to be sustainable, declutter, and give meaningful gifts to show your appreciation to your loved ones.

Books:

• Especially if you read it and didn’t like it that much, don’t keep it on your shelf! If you did like it I think that giving them the copy you read and buying a used one online for yourself (or vice versa) is a great option.

Perfume Samples:

• Luckyscent, ScentSplit, or free samples you get with your perfume shop orders are great ways to amass samples. There are so many times that you won’t like a fragrance, but it could be the right for someone else you know and love.

Sticker Packs:

• Be honest with yourself. You are never going to use all those stickers. Cut a few out to give to your friends or give them a whole sheet!
• Another way of using them would just be to use them right on the wrapping paper/envelope of a card to spice it up/personalize it.

Mail Clubs:

• There’s got to be thousands of these at this point but I’ve found a lot just via Instagram and/or TikTok:
  • The Loved Club by Quinn Collie (on hiatus)
  • Aome Mail Club
  • Roshni Post Mail Club by Alate
  • Dairy Mail Club by Julieta
  • Friends of Pinato Mail Club
  • Baker’s Dozen Print Club by Maura K
  • Joy Mail Club by Emmy
  • Lucky Duck Mail Club
  • Bookmark Club by Kelsi
  • Architecture Mail Club by Trinity
  • Logbook Movie Club
• What I like about this is that you can keep the things that you like and then pass on things that other people might like.
  • The gallery wall trend has cooled off a little bit in my opinion, but I think that people can always use more small art to have around the house.
  • A lot of them have a variety of art prints, poetry, tickers, bookmarks, etc.

Individually Wrapped Candies or Snacks:

• Unless you have aesthetic packaging options available to you, I would not recommend re-packaging candy/snacks from a larger bag (also just from a freshness standpoint).
• Jolly Ranchers, Ginger Chews, Starburst, etc are all easy options that you can mix and match to preferences as a bit of a volume adder to your gift bundle.
  • If I am doing a perfume sample, I usually gift it in a sheer mesh drawstring bag with a few candies just as a way to justify using the bag because I don’t just want to have a loose perfume sample as a gift.

Mugs or Glasses:

• Only nicer ones but there comes a time in many people’s lives where they have to seriously come to terms with how stuffed their cupboards are.
• This is a nice vessel for a gift bundle as you can just put a bunch of other small items inside.

Candles:

• You can sell it as already broken in but if you have too many candles that you want to try then I don’t see a bad reason to re-gift one. Consumables like this won’t clutter too much (unless they too have too many candles).