Rules for White Elephant Christmas to be held at The Diner beginning at 1:30. This is so some of the people from out of state can get back home that night.
If you purchase a gift, set a limit of $25.
Each person attending should bring 1 gift. It should be wrapped and have no names on it.
The gift can be humorous, useful, or just a piece of junk. Whatever suits your fancy as long as it's within good social taste. Remember, there are other customers in the restaurant.
We will count the number of gifts and create tickets from 1 to that number.
Each person who brought a gift will then draw a number from a container or hat.
We will start with the person having number 1 and proceed in numeric order.
The next number may either select an unwrapped gift or take a gift from someone who has already opened a gift.
If they take a previous person's gift, they give that person their number and that person must select another unwrapped gift or another person's gift. They cannot take their own gift back.
A person may only lose their gift 2 times.
After all gifts have been opened, the person who drew Number 1 has their choice of either keeping their gift or swapping it with anyone else's gift. This is because they didn't have that opportunity, being the first person.
If you are coming with someone, may I suggest one useful gift and one otherwise gift. Don't ignore gifts for the ladies as there will be a few there.
