Post #119296 by laney on Tue, Oct 12, 2004 5:41 PM

Humu, I thought of doing a Yankee gift swap (we did this with my family last year at Thanksgiving). If you haven't been to one, here's how it works:

Everyone brings a wrapped gift of a set value.
Everyone in the gift exchange draws a number.
Number 1 chooses a gift, opens it and shows it to everyone.
Number 2 can either steal the opened gift from #1, or choose a wrapped gift and open it.
If #2 steals, #1 chooses another package and opens it.
Number 3 can steal any opened gift, or open a package.

Basic rules:
Once a gift has been stolen 3 times, it's dead and can't be stolen again.
You can't take something right back from the person who stole it from you

it's tons of fun. I think you'd love it and you may come out with something you could use!

As far as kids go. It would be great if kids could be there, however, if it stays pretty small and I host at my house, I may set an age limit.
My house is not small child friendly with the pool and I have an aluminum tree I set up with all my vintage glass and special glass ornaments given to me. I don't know how old your kids are but I have to be careful around it myself. I used to set up 2 aluminum trees and had the 6 ft. fall over on me once. Luckily it only had my 60's plastic and Japan ornaments but it never was the same. So I only do the 4 ft. one but if anything happened to it, I wouldn't be able to replace some of the ornaments. Some were my Grandmothers.

Note: my son grew up going to Estate sales Antique malls and I always hated it when people would not allow kids because he is very good (better than some adults I've had come to my garage sales, break something then put it down quietly). So I'm not saying anyone's kids are bad.

Please keep posting your preferences! Thanks, Laney

[ Edited by: laney on 2004-10-12 17:44 ]