National Re-Gifting Day is celebrated annually on the third Thursday of December. Re-Gifting Day was celebrated in honor of office parties and for the unique Christmas gift exchange.

There are plenty of holidays around the world that we all know about, from Christmas to Saint Patrick’s Day. But there are some we don’t know much about, or at all.

Re-gifting Day is one of those lesser-known holidays unless we work in an office. So, for those of us who don’t know what it is about, let’s dive right into the history of this holiday and see how it came to be!

Re-gifting Day was mostly seen as an office holiday before October 24th, 2008, when the state of Colorado declared December 18th “National Re-gifting Day”.

The holiday originated with office workers who were given gifts they didn’t really want but didn’t want to throw away, so they regifted them to someone who would want and make good use of them.

Regifting, for those who don’t know its meaning, is the act of taking a gift you’ve received and giving it to someone else, sometimes in the guise of a new gift. The term “Re-gifting” was popularized by an episode of Seinfeld, specifically the episode titled “The Label Maker,” even though the practice pre-dates the term quite substantially.

Re-gifting can sometimes be seen as a cruel practice. Why? Because regifting a gift given to you can be seen as a blatant disregard for the compassion someone has shown you by purchasing or creating it specifically for you.