Me-gifting: it’s the new re-gifting
Cats: slack woman|Re-gifting is so yesterday. You get a gift, re-wrap it and give it to someone else. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We all know about that. Even CBC’s done panel discussion on re-gifting.
So what comes after re-gifting. Well, me-gifting, of course.
What you do is make the special person in your life think you are thinking of them when you go shopping for a Christmas gift. But what you are really doing is buying something for yourself and making your special person think you are thinking of them.
Men have been doing this sort of thing for years. Think lingerie. No self-interest in that, is there, men? But that is a crude and unsophisticated form of me-gifting because it’s so obvious.
What I’m calling for is a form of me-gifting that appears less self-interested. Go here to find out what how GT is me-gifting her special person this Christmas.
December 7th, 2007 at 7:39 am
A more blatant form of me-gifting: one of my friends came back from the christmas holiday with a story of how her father got all these really great presents from some secret santa: cd’s, jeans, new art supplies (he was an artist), etc.
Well, he’d just gone out and bought all the stuff for himself, then wrapped it and put it under the tree. He said no one ever got him what he really wanted, so he had the right to buy what he wanted himself.
December 7th, 2007 at 8:18 am
All these years of crude and unsophisticated me-gifting!
It came in the form of a canoe, a camera, binoculars, hammock, DVD recorder,…All things I wanted. But we like it too.
This year it’s a robotic vacuum cleaner (shhhh), but I am running out of me-gift ideas. I have everything I want under $2500. I’m too cheap to me-gift something that expensive!
Never did the lingerie thing. I could never justify the money for such a transitional garment.
I always buy cool stuff for myself when Christmas shopping, but never bother to wrap it.
I’m kind of hoping the robotic vacuum will terrorize the cats and chase them out of the house, but that wasn’t really part of the decision process.
December 7th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Oooh, robotic vacuums! I am so intrigued by the idea of a vacuum that does the job on its own.
Love the whole me-gifting idea. I have me-gifted some very nice things for my birthday and Christmas; two years ago it was a Palm TX PDA. Another year it was a papasan chair and footstool (which I have since regifted by way of the dumpster).
Tis better to me-gift than receive re-gifts, eh?
December 8th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Every year, while out shopping, I see something for myself that I just have to have and I get it as a little Christmas present to me. Last year it was this great Max Mara tweed coat with velvet buttons, on sale.
This year — just the other day, actually — it was an adorable purple cocktail dress with a Juliet neckline and a swingy skirt with pockets! I love it! And again, on sale.
December 8th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Apparently I have been me-gifting for years without realising it. Thus year it will be a scanner and a stack of books that were requested, but also look pretty interesting to me.
December 9th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Holly, I guess he just got fed up with wanting wanting but never getting
Dick, the roboticc hoover scaring the cats - that would be better than a video game.
Yes Moxie, me-gifting is a more highly-evolved activity than the re-gifting.
Jacy, yes, sometimes it’s hard to separate the they-gifts from the me-gifts which is why I like to pretend the me-gift is for someone else, although the little cocktail dress would be a hard one to give to someone else, if you expected to wear it yourself
BB, a scanner is a perfect example of a me-gift - also books, CDs and paintings that are given to someone in the same house.