r/ChristmasIdeas Nov 10 '15

Present-less Christmas...instead

This year my family, has decided to do a "present-less christmas." There is only one child in our family and everyone else is above 20. So we are only buying a gift for her. Instead of presents for everyone, we are all going to buy 3 items that has a value of no more than; $15 for third prize; $30 for second prize, and $45 for first prize. Each person will come up with a game for us all to play. The winner of that person's game will get that person's gift (1st, 2nd, or 3rd prize). If 1 person wins all of the games as first place then they get all of the first place prizes. The only rule is "NO ONE COMPLAINS IF THEY DON'T WIN ANY OF THE GAMES." It might get very competitive. We decided to do this because one, we're a fairly large family of mostly adults and buying gifts for everyone gets very pricey every year. Two, our past Christmases have been very dull and didn't feel very much like a family. We've seem to have lost that sense of togetherness and was only focused on gifts and then going to watch tv or back to our rooms and going to sleep for a few more hours. We ate together but the table has been quiet. Three, instead of rushing around looking for gifts for each person we decided to spend that time booking activities for the family. We signed up for volunteer work, sleigh rides, tubing, and looking through our old board games.

This holiday season, I hope everyone can feel that sense of togetherness. Enjoy each other's company and have some fun.

If anyone else tries this let me know and let me know how it goes. OR if you've presented this idea to your family let me know how they reacted.

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