Wrapping up that unwanted picture frame from last
Christmas and giving it to someone else as a gift might not be as taboo
as it once was, according to a study released Wednesday.
NEW YORK
(Reuters Life!) -- Wrapping up that unwanted picture frame from last
Christmas and giving it to someone else as a gift might not be as taboo
as it once was, according to a study released Wednesday.
The
survey of 1,505 American adults, conducted by market research firm
Harris Interactive, found that over half of the respondents admitted to
"re-gifting" with passing on gifts becoming a far more common and
acceptable phenomenon.
In fact 78 percent of consumers who were polled felt that it was acceptable to re-gift some or most of the time.
Nancy Wong, a spokeswoman for Harris Interactive, said she was surprised by the number of people who admitted to re-gifting.
"It's
not something I've thought about and when I saw that nearly half had
done it -- 52 percent have re-gifted and or would re-gift -- it's quite
a significant number," Wong told Reuters.
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