Its a game we play with my family. Everything is wrapoed and put in center and based on what card you drew (ace is first, king is last) determines the order of selection.
You can either draw from pile or steal from someone else.
We sometimes have cheesy items but I like to do decent ones at least.
Mostly adults (have to put gift in to participate so may not have kids playing)
I love those exchanges! There are some awesome socks out there...snugly soft ones or ones that are super warm for winter or something like that? MH's job does something like that and the biggest hit one year was snowmelt pellets and a car snow scraper...starts with S I'm going to try to get H's family on board with something like that next year...it's all adults now so things like that are so much more fun than traditional gifting.
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Its a game we play with my family. Everything is wrapoed and put in center and based on what card you drew (ace is first, king is last) determines the order of selection.
You can either draw from pile or steal from someone else.
We sometimes have cheesy items but I like to do decent ones at least.
Mostly adults (have to put gift in to participate so may not have kids playing)
We do this too. But we don't have the restriction of the letter "S". That's difficult!
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Post by LadyNymeria on Dec 19, 2015 11:18:57 GMT -5
Good morning GKU! We're headed to Star Wars later, which is WAY earlier than I had planned to see it, but we're going in the middle of the afternoon so hopefully it's not TOO crazy (**knock on wood** hope I didn't just jinx us).
Post by singingsea on Dec 19, 2015 11:46:35 GMT -5
Hi guys. DS got me up at 8 o'clock in the morning to assemble the toys he got from last night. Some of this shit was complicated as fuck. I mean like putting together an entertainment stand complicated
Now I'm speed cleaning trying to get ready for the Christmas dinner we're hosting tomorrow. I may or may not be on my fourth cup of coffee.
Edit: I honest to god look like the Brendan Fraser gif right now. I haven't showered yet and our hair is identical.
Its a game we play with my family. Everything is wrapoed and put in center and based on what card you drew (ace is first, king is last) determines the order of selection.
You can either draw from pile or steal from someone else.
We sometimes have cheesy items but I like to do decent ones at least.
Mostly adults (have to put gift in to participate so may not have kids playing)
I love those exchanges! There are some awesome socks out there...snugly soft ones or ones that are super warm for winter or something like that? MH's job does something like that and the biggest hit one year was snowmelt pellets and a car snow scraper...starts with S I'm going to try to get H's family on board with something like that next year...it's all adults now so things like that are so much more fun than traditional gifting.
We do this also with the adults. Christmas morning is for the boys, then once they go to bed the adults drink and play the game!! So much more fun than having to think out specifically for each person.
Post by thelittleredm on Dec 19, 2015 12:04:50 GMT -5
Work is super boring this morning but at least my first customer brightened my day! He looked like a real life Santa and was super friendly. My service advisor may have helped by bringing everyone carne adovada burritos. Nom nom nom nom nom.
I really love my coworkers. They are fantastic and the only reason I haven't started looking for a better paying job, yet.
Post by onesweetworld on Dec 19, 2015 12:37:22 GMT -5
MH is trying to force me to do things. I've done nothing but supervise him throwing away things because I'm sick of him throwing away my stuff. I'm pretty much sitting here having a panic attack because I do not do well when he throws my things away. He threw away a heater that my mom bought us because the dog chewed the cord. It was $300 with warranty and he could have cared less. Ughhhhhhhj
MH is trying to force me to do things. I've done nothing but supervise him throwing away things because I'm sick of him throwing away my stuff. I'm pretty much sitting here having a panic attack because I do not do well when he throws my things away. He threw away a heater that my mom bought us because the dog chewed the cord. It was $300 with warranty and he could have cared less. Ughhhhhhhj
MH is trying to force me to do things. I've done nothing but supervise him throwing away things because I'm sick of him throwing away my stuff. I'm pretty much sitting here having a panic attack because I do not do well when he throws my things away. He threw away a heater that my mom bought us because the dog chewed the cord. It was $300 with warranty and he could have cared less. Ughhhhhhhj
Oh no....I think I'm this person to MH. I've become ruthless throwing stuff away. But I can see the look of panic on his face and so I've tried to be more gentle recently...
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MH is trying to force me to do things. I've done nothing but supervise him throwing away things because I'm sick of him throwing away my stuff. I'm pretty much sitting here having a panic attack because I do not do well when he throws my things away. He threw away a heater that my mom bought us because the dog chewed the cord. It was $300 with warranty and he could have cared less. Ughhhhhhhj
Oh no....I think I'm this person to MH. I've become ruthless throwing stuff away. But I can see the look of panic on his face and so I've tried to be more gentle recently...
MH is trying to force me to do things. I've done nothing but supervise him throwing away things because I'm sick of him throwing away my stuff. I'm pretty much sitting here having a panic attack because I do not do well when he throws my things away. He threw away a heater that my mom bought us because the dog chewed the cord. It was $300 with warranty and he could have cared less. Ughhhhhhhj
I would think the warranty would cover it if it broke on its own... Not because a dog chewed the cord.
I had the weirdest dream last night... I had a baby, but it was like really tiny. Not like preemie tiny, but like a fully grown baby just made smaller somehow? And I kept forgetting we had it. Like, we'd get somewhere and I'd suddenly remember that I'd left the baby at home. And then I'd get lost trying to find our car. And then it would turn out that H had found the baby but had left him with the dogs or something.
The whole time, the rational part of my brain is interjecting - "how can we have a baby? I hadn't even ovulated yet, how can we have had a baby now?"
This is what I get for eating Reese's cups and drinking cider before bed.
Post by LadyNymeria on Dec 19, 2015 13:14:31 GMT -5
pismoduo - Sugar before bed makes me have crazy dreams too! I had one last night due to the giant bowl of ice cream an hour before bed, but I can't remember what it was now. Just that it was weird.
Its a game we play with my family. Everything is wrapoed and put in center and based on what card you drew (ace is first, king is last) determines the order of selection.
You can either draw from pile or steal from someone else.
We sometimes have cheesy items but I like to do decent ones at least.
Mostly adults (have to put gift in to participate so may not have kids playing)
We do this with H's mom's family (the adults) but we do a $50 limit. It's awesome; lots of booze and meat get gifted.
Its a game we play with my family. Everything is wrapoed and put in center and based on what card you drew (ace is first, king is last) determines the order of selection.
You can either draw from pile or steal from someone else.
We sometimes have cheesy items but I like to do decent ones at least.
Mostly adults (have to put gift in to participate so may not have kids playing)
We do this with H's mom's family (the adults) but we do a $50 limit. It's awesome; lots of booze and meat get gifted.
We do a regular white elephant party with H's side of the family. Booze is the #1 gift to get stolen but we have a few underage kids so some people will get iTunes gift cards or movie passes. I tend to go the food route and last year, one of the uncles just put in a note saying he'd smoke half a brisket for the winner of that gift so that was stolen like crazy.
Its a game we play with my family. Everything is wrapoed and put in center and based on what card you drew (ace is first, king is last) determines the order of selection.
You can either draw from pile or steal from someone else.
We sometimes have cheesy items but I like to do decent ones at least.
Mostly adults (have to put gift in to participate so may not have kids playing)
I have participated in a few of these this year. I brought:
Scratch offs attached to a 40 of Steele Reserve Poop-ourri The game Clue A selfie stick with a selfie kit with props
We do this with H's mom's family (the adults) but we do a $50 limit. It's awesome; lots of booze and meat get gifted.
We do a regular white elephant party with H's side of the family. Booze is the #1 gift to get stolen but we have a few underage kids so some people will get iTunes gift cards or movie passes. I tend to go the food route and last year, one of the uncles just put in a note saying he'd smoke half a brisket for the winner of that gift so that was stolen like crazy.
Oh yea well there are some gift cards too usually restaurants and the like. But def booze. It's nice now because DS is really the ONLY underage famity member and he's 3 so he doesn't participate anyways. We have a 2-steal limit per gift. H and I have it pretty much down to a science haha.
Post by thechickencoop on Dec 19, 2015 13:55:39 GMT -5
Also I realized earlier today that I'm missing my license. The only place I even think I COULD have left it is the liquor store, last time I was there was like 2 weeks ago...ugh! I'm really hoping it turns up.
The most popular white elephant gift I've ever seen was a handful of lotto tickets. It came with like a candy bar or something, but there was a ton of stealing of that gift.
MH is trying to force me to do things. I've done nothing but supervise him throwing away things because I'm sick of him throwing away my stuff. I'm pretty much sitting here having a panic attack because I do not do well when he throws my things away. He threw away a heater that my mom bought us because the dog chewed the cord. It was $300 with warranty and he could have cared less. Ughhhhhhhj
Chewed cords can be fixed!! DH had to fix a couple of things when the boys were puppies. Nugget had a real thing for my electronics.
Good morning GKU! We're headed to Star Wars later, which is WAY earlier than I had planned to see it, but we're going in the middle of the afternoon so hopefully it's not TOO crazy (**knock on wood** hope I didn't just jinx us).
At the movies, doesn't start for an hour. I haven't been this early to a movie since the last Harry Potter when I went to the midnight showing.
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