Everyone brings a gift, in the $5-10 range. They're allowed to be really tacky and useless gifts. So some of them are, and some are just average $7 gifts (i.e. scarf from Wallgreens, box of peppermint bark), and some of them are really nice (which ones those are, depends on your taste).
And you can't enjoy getting one of the "really nice" gifts, 'cos odds are, someone else is going to take it away.
The gifts bounce around the room until they're all allocated, and people joke about who brought what and who got stuck with what, and I have no idea why any of that is supposed to be fun.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2012-12-07 07:39 am (UTC)Everyone brings a gift, in the $5-10 range. They're allowed to be really tacky and useless gifts. So some of them are, and some are just average $7 gifts (i.e. scarf from Wallgreens, box of peppermint bark), and some of them are really nice (which ones those are, depends on your taste).
And you can't enjoy getting one of the "really nice" gifts, 'cos odds are, someone else is going to take it away.
The gifts bounce around the room until they're all allocated, and people joke about who brought what and who got stuck with what, and I have no idea why any of that is supposed to be fun.