Gift giving in America has typically become a dreadful experience. Christmas shopping, birthday shopping, going to the mall, ugh. But it doesn't have to be that way. Gift giving can be joyful and fun, the way it is supposed to be!
My family has a tradition where every year around Christmas time my whole family (around 50 people) cram into my house for a weekend of family fun. We catch up with each other's lives, play games, and eat a lot of casseroles. My favorite activity that we do is the White Elephant Gift Exchange. A lot of people do this differently, but this is how my family does it. Every takes something from their house (no purchasing things from the store!) and wraps it up as a gift. The crazier/more useless the item the better! Everyone gets a number. Whoever has number 1 gets to choose a gift from under the tree. Number 2 can choose a gift, or steal number 1's gift. We don't open any of them until the end of the game, so it is fun to trade and steal boxes that have unknown contents. At the end of the game everybody laughs about what is inside the wrapping paper, but the real gift is the fun we have as a family.
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My family plays this too. It gets dangerous when there are presents with cool shapes. It's more reasonable and fun to give gifts this way and is always a big hit around Christmas time.
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