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Is it cold in here?:
My wife collects warm socks but always utilitarian ones. A "casual" inquiry revealed that she'd play dress-up with them if she could. I got her a gift card from a place I found out about here, sockdreams.com.

TheEvilDog:
Got my sister some clothes, perfume and the dvds for Downton Abbey series 3 and Moone Boy, as well as some other stuff.
Got my father a fleece, some shirts and a book about Bonanza, as well as some other items.
I got t-shirts, a fleece, the collected JLA/Avengers and the Avengers dvd and a couple of extra bits.

LTK:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 27 Dec 2012, 10:30 ---LTK, how does the gift-giving game work? It sounds intriguing. Is it like a secret santa, or more like pass the parcel?

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I don't know? It doesn't have much similarity with secret santa, from what I can tell. What we did was have everyone buy x presents for y euros each, gather these, and then take turns throwing a die. Throwing one or six lets you draw a card that tells you to do something. That can be: taking one present and unwrapping it, picking one present for someone else to unwrap, giving one of the presents you received to someone else, taking a present from someone else, trading a present with someone else, swapping all of your presents with someone else, and so on. That's basically just busywork, though, and it simply lets you get the thrill of receiving presents over and over again, even if you lost them earlier, and competing to get the best ones. You either continue until you run out of cards, or after a set amount of time. What usually happens then is that some people end up with a huge pile of presents and some have only one, so everyone trades them back and forth until everyone has the same number as they bought. Unless they're dicks.

The tricky thing is that you either have to get all the cards custom printed or print them all yourself and cut them up. Though once that's done you could reuse them. I played the game with my fellow master's students and with some friends of my parents'. At the student party I ended up with a massive pile of presents because a card said 'everyone older than you has to give you one present' and I subsequently had to abandon all of them due to switching places. The girl who inherited them from me went on to give them all away because she didn't want any. And so I received socks.

bainidhe_dub:
Oh wow. I wonder if my family would like that more or less than the gift game we currently play... Everybody who's playing brings one gift. We draw numbers for the order of play. On your turn, you can either open a gift from the table or steal one that's already opened. If your gift is stolen, you have the same options. Once a gift is unwrapped, the turn ends and you move to the next number. We have rules of no take-backs and an item can only change hands three times in a turn, to help keep things moving. But in the last couple years, some of my mom's generation have made grumblings about finding something different to do, because "it takes too long" or something. (I'm not sure what their problem is with it exactly.)

This year I gave a coat, concert tickets, chocolates, a mani/pedi certificate, a Red Wing Boot certificate, a few books, and an iPhone case to a person who does not have an iPhone (because he got boots instead). I received a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet, a necklace, a jacket, a few books, a few gift certificates, and a fireproof document safe. (Everyone got a safe. And a scarf. And a mosquito repellant thing.)

Redball:
I sat in on but didn't participate in a gift game which sounds like Bain's. I suppose it's fun, although there's something a little uncivilized about it. Wonder if it's the same as Barmymoo's pass the parcel.

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