Many consignment, thrift and resale stores have a holiday party, and most of these involve gift exchanges. While these are fun, they can also be fraught with “what was s/he thinking?” worries. If you’d rather have some fun and friendship, with a big side dish of community involvement, here’s an idea I really like.
Do your exchange the same way you have always done, but make this stipulation: the gift has to be something you think the recipient would have loved
as a child.
What will it be? Model cars? Paper dolls? A crib mobile that plays Can’t Get No Satisfaction? Do your darnedness, exchange gifts and laughs and funny stories of when you were a kid…
then pack the gifts all back up
and take them to your local charity’s toy drive.
Yup. THAT’s the
Another fun gift-exchange idea… and it fits right in with the earth-friendly gift-wrap post at https://auntiekate.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/gift-wrapping-the-earth-friendly-way/ too! Take a look at http://pinterest.com/pin/113434484335395238/
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