That Re-Gifting Party

I decided after hearing and blogging about a "Re-Gifting Party" to throw one. I invited some friends for the first Friday evening after the New Year. We met at my home last night for a light supper and refreshments - 9 women and one male, Jack Daniels. We all brought our unwrapped "treasures" to be re-gifted. There were 4 places to put the items: one table for the $0-10 items, another $10-25, another $25-50 and one more spot for the $50. and up. We had a meeting to determine how we were going to do this. My original premise was that depending on the price point one would receive a ticket to "shop" at that table. Vetoed! It was decided that no one cared what the price point was, we didn't want the stuff back and who cared if someone got something they chose that happened to be more or less than what they brought. So, names were called one by one and that person "shopped" for one item, another name was called and she "shopped" for an item until we all had mutiple turns to "shop" and the items were gone! Well, almost all... there are 2 very small items left which will be donated to charity. Interesting comments when gifts were put on the tables "Can you believe someone actually gave this to me?" A moment later: "Oh, I love this!" (concerning the same item!) It's amazing how many gifts were originally given by relatives!! We had a lot of laughs and it was decided that we wanted to continue to meet, so a monthly book club was formed. Our first meeting will be the end of January.
I highly recommend this "Re-Gifting Party!" The adage "someone's trash is another's treasure" definitely applied!