From Mistress Theadora Perplexa, gift exchange marshal in charge:Gift Exchange Information
Those who wish to participate in the gift exchange should bring a wrapped gift suggested cost of $5.00 value or less (or something that you don’t mind exchanging for something that cheap, though most often contribute gifts of a higher value ).
Please label it if has an age restriction (alcoholic beverages are the most common example). Please do not add any other hints; the lack of information is part of the fun. Deposit it on the table or under the tree with the other *wrapped* gifts (not with the donations for Toys for Tots).
On Saturday evening after feast and when the kitchen is clean, join the circle of benches. You will get to draw a number for each wrapped gift you have put on the table. We will then go in numerical order, picking gifts from the pile or taking them from each other. Number 1 will draw both first and last.
Gift Exchange Rules:
- The gifts should be inexpensive and wrapped. They stay wrapped until the end.
- A “round” begins when a gift is taken from someone, and continues for 10 seconds, or until a gift is picked from under the tree. Whoever doesn’t have a gift in hand when the count reaches zero has to pick from under the tree.
- Gifts may not be hidden.
- Gifts must be taken and given up humanely.
- Each gift may be exchanged only once per round.
- The wrapping is part of the gift and may be kept.