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Post by mountainma on Dec 23, 2022 13:32:40 GMT -6
Instead of doing the traditional stockings on Christmas morning, I've taken all the stocking stuffers and wrapped them to play a game for Christmas. I think it's going to be fun. With dd2 and her dh married, they aren't here on Christmas morning and will do their own stockings. So, I thought we'd try this for a change.
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Post by eyeofthestorm on Dec 23, 2022 14:45:02 GMT -6
That might be fun. We do stockings a little differently. In Randy's family, every one buys one small sock gift for each other immediate family member, wraps it, and puts it in the stockings. Now, like us, they do all their gift exchanges on Christmas Eve except for stockings, which they open on Christmas Day. In my family, nothing in stockings was wrapped. In our family, we do a sort of combination.
We don't wrap any stocking gifts. Everyone gets a dollar amount and is told to split that five ways. You are supposed to put things in your own stocking, too, to throw people off from guessing who got what. It's usually funny. Some people ALWAYS give (tons of) candy. Last year, I gave everyone a LifeStraw (I got them super reduced!). I did wrap those to prolong the puzzling about them. There is usually some sort of small toy or puzzle to assemble.
I'm not sure what game you are playing, mountainma, but I've seen some fun ones. There's a candle one making the rounds on social media that looks VERY fun. We have partaken in "Dirty Santa" parties at various churches. They are always so much fun. Those parties are what put me on the lookout year round for small items marked way down.
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Post by mountainma on Dec 24, 2022 11:16:30 GMT -6
I was going to do the dirty Santa game as my side of the family has so much fun doing that every year, but I'm going to look up the candle game. I have enough little packages we might be able to do both.
LifeStraw is WONDERFUL! What a great gift! I got dh one for Christmas last year.
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Post by michelle on Dec 27, 2022 5:55:27 GMT -6
How did your family like it?
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Post by mountainma on Dec 27, 2022 10:06:41 GMT -6
How did your family like it? It went over really well! We did Christmas crackers. We each took turns reading our jokes aloud and then doing our challenges. We did this while waiting for dinner to cook, then again before dh read the Christmas story. The challenges were the really fun part. Dh had to bark the song Jingle Bells, dd1 had to kiss someone wearing blue, and my son-in-law acted out a wild west Santa. We each had something silly to do and it caused a lot of giggles. The kids said they liked doing the crackers better than stockings. We also played the dirty Santa game with their stocking stuffers. I found some small paper bags with a birthday theme dirt cheap at a rummage sale, and used them for the stocking stuffers. They could open their bag and keep what was inside or trade with someone else. We had a lot of fun with it.
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Post by michelle on Dec 27, 2022 18:12:51 GMT -6
So glad that it went well
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