You have give a little more context to justify your situation.I got busted!
Try a little more strategic re-gifting next time. Or just say, "you liked it so much to get it for me, and I loved it so much I'd hate for you to not have one." Selfless.Yes that’s Hal. He knocked my dads Teeth out in the 50s when he played at State. . I got a Christmas gift that I never took out of the gift bag and took it to Moms house for the holidays to eat, week later I needed some gifts for the neighbors so Mom gets me some gifts together and unknowingly to me or her it ends up at a neighbors house. I text to tell them it was on their front porch. I have not heard from them so I began thinking about the gift I had gotten and deducted it was the one I gave them.
Just say, you liked the one you got so much that you wanted to get one for your favorite (family/friend)I got busted!
My family did that for a while too. We quit a couple years ago due to my grandmother passing. That fruit cake made it about 10 years. Best use of a fruit cake IMO.We have a fruit cake floating around our family that's been re-gifted for the last 12 years. It's a family joke now, "Who got the fruit cake this year?".
I heard a story once of a family regifting a pair of 70’s era disco pants for 30 plus years. If I remember correctly they started this after their mother passed. Whoever got the gift also hosted the family Christmas dinner every year.We have a fruit cake floating around our family that's been re-gifted for the last 12 years. It's a family joke now, "Who got the fruit cake this year?".