heavenlysshine Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 If you've ever played this game at a Holiday gathering then you know how fun it can be! What's the best/most outrageous item you've ever seen?
hwolf6330 Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 I can't remember any outrageous item but I do remember my G-ma cheating. She unwrapped a snowman and didn't want anyone to take it so she went and hid it in her car. Of course we went and got it out of her car to swap it. We made sure she got it back at the end. She is awfully sneaky.
pogiporkchop Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 That sounds exactly like something my grandma would have done! Years ago when I was in college I participated in a white elephant exchange... I got a huge orange hand mirror, and my contribution was a glass cowboy boot shaped mug with homemade fudge stuck inside. The person who got it actually liked it.
nellyhill Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 The best gift I have ever seen was (how do I put it nicely) an adult toy. My MIL hosted a party for her friends from high school and one was a total snob. So the next year a group of girls got together and all bought these and made sure the snob ended up with one in the end (no pun intended).
zingerhil Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 The best gift I have ever seen was (how do I put it nicely) an adult toy. My MIL hosted a party for her friends from high school and one was a total snob. So the next year a group of girls got together and all bought these and made sure the snob ended up with one in the end (no pun intended).
jarerice Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 This sounds fun, fun fun. I might try to bring this into our parties.
heavenlysshine Posted October 13, 2007 Author Posted October 13, 2007 I have a friend whose hubby got one of those squeeze stress balls shaped like b@@bs! lol
brynnfromtheblock Posted October 13, 2007 Posted October 13, 2007 I can't remember how you play... do you trade when they're unwrapped or wrapped?
stacya Posted October 13, 2007 Posted October 13, 2007 I can't remember how you play... do you trade when they're unwrapped or wrapped? unwrapped...and you can play different ways, but the way I think is fair is that whoever draws #1 gets to choose to keep what they have at the end, or swap it, because let's face it, that person is going to get the crap, kwim? I generally don't like this game, but if it's just gag type stuff, it can be tons of fun! One year, my college classmates and I played, and it wasn't really even, like some got crappy gifts, and some got nicer ones, so I got something sucky...but one year my co-workers and I did it for Christmas, with a $10 limit and gag gifts, and we had a blast! One person got a plunger, but in the bottom of it was a $10 bill, one person got a 12-pack of Corona...I ended up with edible chocolate body paint, someone ended up with an *ahem* adult toy...it was so funny though, because I was like 8 months pregnant and thought I was going to pee my pants, I was laughing so hard!
jbdinos Posted October 13, 2007 Posted October 13, 2007 Our Sunday School class at church does this. We only do a $5.00 limit and no one wants to have a low number. We equally have gifts that are valued well over $5.00 that are "must haves" and total gag gifts that no one really wants. However, no one goes expecting anything but a fun time due to some of the men in our class. They can make any gag gift even funnier if they receive it or if they receive a "woman's" gift. No one knows who brought each gift. It's fun to be the person that brought the must have gift but also fun to see who gets stuck with your own gag gift if you go that route too. I think the beauty of it is that you do it solely to have fun with it, not to actually come home with something nice. I remember a year or two ago one of the men forgot to buy a gift till it was too late and the stores were closing (we live in a very small town). So he went to the grocery store and came out with a 3 lb roll of summer sausage. The lady that got it was just horrified as she had the nicest gift and it was "stolen" from her so she went ahead and opened the next gift and it was summer sausage. DH was last and he took the summer sausage so she could take the present back she had originally. They all thought DH was so nice and truly he wanted it because we were having a party the next day and we were to bring the meat/cheese/cracker snack tray... LOL Always a good time as long as no one expects anything other than a good time! You can always take the "bad" gift and recycle it back to the same group the next year....
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