This is the one that proves (once again) that my mom is nutso.

Posted December 31st, 2008 by Mike Lawson

It’s not incredibly uncommon for us to make fun of our mothers because they like to save Christmas ribbon off of presents, or re-use gift bags.  I know that moms across America have this incommon with my mother.  But my mom takes this obsession one step further.

First off, this year my mom found a new hobby: creative regifting.

It’s the most annoying/clever/cheap thing she’s ever done.  She decided that this year she wasn’t going to buy those stupid little useless gifts that you give to your aquaintances just because they gave you one.  You know what I’m talking about…the $5 Bath and Body Works gift set, or the snowman dish towel set.  Instead, she was going to covertly re-wrap the useless gifts she received from her co-workers and regift them to other people.

And if that wasn’t senile enough for you, she also flew over the cuckoo’s nest when she relentlessly refused to discard of any present wrapping aside from paper.

My sister received a package of nuts in a cardboard box with plastic lining, and my mom saved it.  She claims that next year she’s going to bake some goodies and use the box as a gift to someone.  Mom even saved the carboard gift tag that had writing on it because she said that she wanted to re-create the tag next year.

After I “opened” a mini felt stocking (about the size of a gift card) that had a gift card (what a surprise!) in it, I pretended to throw the stocking away, and my mom yelped.  “No!  We can reuse that!”