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ektsm

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 3:52 pm

Do you recyle shalach manos?

chen ↓

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 3:55 pm

Is Purim in Adar?

chocolate moose ↓

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 3:55 pm

If it's packaged, yes. Homemade, not.

sarahd

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 3:57 pm

I wouldn't send on a complete shalach manos, but would definitely take it apart and send on the store-bought items. After all, the name of the game is send it on and he who ends up with the least junk wins!

↑ chocolate moose

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 4:07 pm

In C.H. we send the extra nosh after Purim to a mosad that makes lechaims and upsherenishs for needy people with it.

deedee

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 8:05 pm

its always a good back up if u run out of ur own!

Tefila

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 8:37 pm

Quote:

ditto

queen ↓

Sun, Mar 05 2006, 8:41 pm

when more people than expected/prepared for show up with sh.monos.... this becomes inevitable

↑ chen ↓

Mon, Mar 06 2006, 8:05 pm

sarahd wrote:

he who ends up with the least junk wins!

sarahd, are you my sister? she always says things like that. (I agree with her.)

newmom

Mon, Mar 06 2006, 8:30 pm

I once ended up getting back my own!! Guess that one was recycled many times over the day.

miriam

Mon, Mar 06 2006, 8:55 pm

chen wrote:

Is Purim in Adar?

↑ queen

Mon, Mar 06 2006, 8:58 pm

newmom wrote:

I once ended up getting back my own!! Guess that one was recycled many times over the day.

now THAT'S a winner!!!!!

happymom

Mon, Mar 06 2006, 9:57 pm

Quote:

I once ended up getting back my own!!

lol, this reminds me of something that happened to my mother. She gave this Lady a baby gift, and when my mother had a baby, she gave my mother the EXACT gift my mother had given her! I guess she forgot that my mother was the one who gave it to her!

red sea

Mon, Mar 06 2006, 10:02 pm

Once my neighbor and I had babies real close together and she sent me a gift over - real sweet, but forgot to remove the lovely card addressed to her! I never said anything but it sure gives me a good laugh when I think about it!

↑ chen

Tue, Mar 07 2006, 12:39 pm

I'm an avid regifter. before I put it away I stick a little note on the object saying who gave it to me, so we don't give it back to the giver. we have no way of knowing that the next recipient won't pass it along and it will end up back where it came from--but at least it will not have come straight from me!

Crayon210

Tue, Mar 07 2006, 12:41 pm

Efraim Kishon (an Israeli humor writer) has a wonderful piece about regifting...he tells of his family receiving the bottle of wine they brought to someone's house 25 years later...LOL

nicole81

Wed, Mar 15 2006, 11:27 am

I actually found the perfect use for all the junk because I didn't end up recylcling any of it for shalach manos... dd's 1st birthday is in another 2 weeks so I made party bags for all the kids to take home and filled it with tons of candies from purim. the rest I'll just put out as snacks.

I felt so enlightened as I made this revelation last night, and realized that I can do this every single year that I make her a party.

sheshycoco

Wed, Mar 15 2006, 12:38 pm

Lucky you, if you live in CH, I can donate some things if you still need.

youngmom

Wed, Mar 15 2006, 2:00 pm

We gave out so many MM but couldn't reuse any of the ones we got because many were Cholov Akum. Also, ppl here do very simple MM so we didn't get that much back.

ny21

Wed, Mar 15 2006, 6:40 pm

we donate our left overs to a charity

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