December 21#: National Re-Gifting Day

Recycling the presents we can’t use.
National Re-Gifting Day is just this.
Celebrated on the third Thursday of December of every year, this day was mostly seen as an office holiday before October 24th 2008, which was the day that the state of Colorado declared December 18th as “National Re-Gifting Day”.
The origin of the holiday came from office workers who were given gifts that they didn’t really want but didn’t want to throw away, so they re-gifted their present to someone who would want it and make good use of it.
The term “Re-gifting” was popularized by an episode of Seinfeld titled “The Label Maker”, where a label maker is re-gifted from one character to another, even though the practice of it pre-dates the term quite substantially.
But it can sometimes be seen as something bad, because re-gifting a gift that was given to you can be seen as a blatant disregard from the compassion that someone has shown you by either purchasing or creating the gift for you in particular!
A fascinating part of the culture of workplace re-gifting is also the practice of White Elephant gift exchanges, in which gifts are exchanged between co-workers by ‘stealing’ gifts you want for yourself from other people.
To celebrate this day, all you have to do is give away a gift that you received and have not yet opened to someone else.
However, it is important to keep in mind a few rules when deciding on whether to re-gift an item or not.
Make sure, for example, that the gift you’re passing along has never been used, is devoid of any sentimental value, is not personalized, and is actually a good fit for the recipient.
In any case, many people in the world do not have the luxuries that some of us do, say you receive, for istance, a coat but you already have one in your size, you can go find a homeless person or a person who cannot afford a coat or winter jacket and re-gift it to them!