When we asked iVillagers, "Have you ever re-gifted?" we expected shame-faced confessionals. And instead we got a grab bag full of hilarious stories. As one iVillager put it, "I prefer to think of it as creative redistribution." And another iVillager laid the ground rules for an acceptable re-gift: "It shouldn't have been used; it should be in its original packing; it should have a valid gift receipt (if it came with one); and re-gifts should be done as quickly as possible. Don't collect re-gifting items — get them moving, or find another solution to what is now your junk. And most importantly, it must be something that would better suit the new recipient than you!" Got that? Good. Ready for some true tales of re-gifting gone horribly wrong... and sometimes miraculously right? Read on.

One of my most useful wedding gifts was a re-gift. It was a Pyrex dish that had fragments of Christmas wrap stuck to the box. No matter, it is something we use a lot!

A family member of ours (who has a way of coming off as uppity) got caught one Christmas in a re-gift jam! She rewrapped a basket of goodies and neglected to reassign the gift tag — imagine her father-in-law's surprise at reading: "Merry Christmas, Mrs. Smith. Love, the Jones Family." She tried to cover it up with the old "I reused the cellophane" line, but we were all secretly laughing our butts off.

We received at least 10 picture frames for my wedding. I never used them all, and some had never been out of their boxes. A coworker was getting married, and I knew I had these frames sitting around, so I found one and wrapped it up! She loved it, and it's in her living room right now!

I'll admit it. When my husband and I got engaged, my mother-in-law bought me crystal glasses that weren't my taste. When my cousin got married a couple of years ago, I passed them along. My sister went through a box of stuff I'd gotten from my mother-in-law and picked out something to give as well!