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"Last Word"-Respectable Re-gifting

SUSIE GHARIB: And finally tonight, with the holiday gift-giving season fast approaching, this might be good news. A new survey of 1,500 American adults shows that giving gifts that you have received to others, a process known as re-gifting, is now acceptable. Seventy eight percent of consumers polled felt it was OK to re-gift some or most of the time. In years past, giving away something someone gave you was seen as taboo and a socially unacceptable move. But the poll showed that more than half of those responding, 52 percent, have re-gifted. So Paul, if you`re thinking of re- gifting that horrible tie someone gave you for Christmas last year, you shouldn`t feel guilty about it.

KANGAS: Well, I certainly would, if by mistake I gave it to the person that gave it to me in the first place.

GHARIB: That would be horrible.

KANGAS: Yes, it would.

GHARIB: You have to keep track of who you got the gift from.