December 24, 2011
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I need suggestions!
I have family coming over in a few hours. We’re doing a ‘grab bag’ gift exchange. Everyone is to bring something valued at the agreed upon price. But I’m at a loss as to how to work it. Maybe throw names in a hat and draw names, and the order they are drawn is the order of the pick.
Any other suggestions? It’s just going to be 8 people (all adults).
Comments (4)
You could do like we do at work: One person thinks of a number 1-10, first person to say the number gets to go first. They pick one of the wrapped gifts, and open it. The next person can either pick one of the other wrapped gifts, or if he/she likes the one the first person got, can take it from them and they have to pick a different one. Keep going until everyone has something. Except their own of course lol.
I like Nevragn’s suggestion. We’ve done that a few times. Although, we put numbers in hat – in your case 1 – 8. Person with #1 picks one of the gift bags and opens it. Then #2 goes and they can pick that opened gift or a new gift bag. If they take the opened gift, then that person chooses another one and opens it. # 3 can choose either of the already opened gifts or a new gift bag and open it. It can take a while to get through it and it’s kind of fun when one or two opened gifts keep getting taken from people.
You could do something that we did the other day at work: Have a list of Christmas trivia, and ask questions (make them easy – we definitely needed easy – like “name the reindeer whose name starts with “D”" or “what did Grandma leave the house to get in “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”?”. The person who gets the answer right gets to choose a present (or steal someone else’s), and then we did the stealing thing like Suze mentioned, though there was a limit of three times that a gift could be stolen. If a person gets their gift stolen, they get to choose a new one to replace theirs. You’d only need 7 or 8 questions.
@nevragn - @ItsSuze - @Tyche - thanks for the suggestions!!