What do you do with unusuable gift?

[stinkelein]

I just had my third child and we received a few gifts. The clothing we can use or sell to the consignment shops where we buy most of the kids clothes. But we got 4 pkgs of new born size diapers and a gift bag full of different body washes and other baby care products. very thoughtful and useful, except that we use cloth diapers and all of my children sensitive skin and eczema. What do you do with this type of stuff? Is it okay to regift or donate it? Or is that incredibly rude? I would never tell the giver that I had, I just send thank yous.
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[lynsage]

It's not rude to regift or donate something you can't use, especially if you don't tell the giver you did that. I bet if you put it on Freecycle, you'd find someone who wants it immediately. Especially the diapers.

[ChetMC]

Shelter

I expect that a shelter, women's crisis centre, food bank or other support service for families would be happy to take the diapers and baby items off of your hands.

They'd also get scooped up on freecycle in about eight seconds.

You could sell them on kijiji or craigslist too. Price them at about 2/3 or retail and they'll be gone fast.

[JamieCatheryn]

I return such things then get baby things I really need in exchange. One pack of sposies can come in handy for trips or if life gets hectic and you don't do the wash though.

[OkiMom]

I would either exchange them or give them to someone I knew would use them. I did regift a ton of diapers I was given with DD2 because we used cloth. I just don't tell the person that gave them to me that I did it because they gave me something they thought I would use and would be helpful to me.

[zebra15]

Those things (pampers, wipes, babywash) also are sold/bought at my kiddie resale shoppe so you could try there too.

[proudmomof4]

Depending on who gave those things to you it might not even be "too rude" to ask for an exchange. Life happens, right? If a couple of people choose gifts it's not so unlikely that you'll have doubles (or even more). After all, you can use only so many rompers, onesies and whatnot of one size.

(Note: I would chose this method only with good friends or some family members. If I were the giver I'd ask first - especially when it's not the first child in a family.)

[swd12422]

If you're going to exchange/return rather than donate/sell, just do the exchange yourself. Most places like Target and Babies R Us will give you a store credit for the unopened stuff if they sell the brand there. Whoever gifted you with those items already went to the trouble of shopping for you -- it's not on them to do the exchanging too, just b/c they didn't know what to get you.

[leigh09]

I bring things like that (returns without a receipt) to a store that I know is generally good about giving me store credit for it and I have use for credit at that particular store.

I was in the EXACT situation when we had our third baby - people didn't know what to get us ... I understand because we had 3 kids in 4 years, we were overrun with all things baby ... and ended up buying diapers, shampoos, creams, etc. We're a family of cloth diapers and sensitive skin, and ended up with store credit at Wal-Mart.

[plantnerd]

Donate to women's and children's shelter

[proudmomof4]

Originally Posted by swd12422

If you're going to exchange/return rather than donate/sell, just do the exchange yourself. Most places like Target and Babies R Us will give you a store credit for the unopened stuff if they sell the brand there. Whoever gifted you with those items already went to the trouble of shopping for you -- it's not on them to do the exchanging too, just b/c they didn't know what to get you.

Just as a sidethought - I agree with you but this method wouldn't work everywhere. In my home country (Germany) stores usually don't exchange anything without the receipt.

[surrogate]

take it to walmart and get credit. Targets return policy is more strict

[Sol_y_Paz]

I see no problem with returning or donating it.
I would not tell either!