The art of regifting...

Regifting or regiving that gift that has been received to somebody else is pretty common, yet we had seldom done it, simply because we must like the few things people give to us...

This was until we found at our doorstep a cake that one of our neighbor had dropped for us. This was the second time we had such a Christmas present. It was a buttermilk cinnamon streusel cake, that we were just unable eat the year before since it was so dry and sandy.

So, instead, we decided not to even make a second attempt at eating it based upon our previous experience. As we were invited to a Christmas Party and had to bring some wine, we also added that infamous cake, which we hoped, might find some appreciative specialists in search for a super-dry cake.

Excellent idea, as long as the gifter wouldn't be attending the party, which we were pretty sure they wouldn't. and with the shaky assumption in mind, we brought the streusel cake to the party.

In the midst of the event, another neighbor who lived kitty-corner from the person who so generously handed out the cake, told us that, he too, just like us, had recycled the confection.

In spite of all the angst this regifting had involved, it felt tremendously good not that we weren't the only one!