White Elephant

Since the last 2 holiday parties, Halloween and Thanksgiving, were awesome, we decided to do a White Elephant party.  I put a 10 euro limit on the gifts and planned to have it on a Monday night when everyone could come.  People kept asking me what kind of gifts to get and that is a hard question since people with white elephants can have hit or miss ideas.  And it is always funny to have those really dumb gifts but it is also good to have some awesome gifts too.  

Everyone brought a gift, some were wrapped and some weren’t.  I told them to wrap the presents, but those just ended up being the last gifts to be chosen, since opening a gift is so much more fun.  

I wrote all the names down and put them into a hat.  First up was Jordi.  He’s a goofy guy so it was a good person to start off the game.  He looked around, shook some gifts and finally settled on one.  He opened it and it was a Santa hat that said “Montpellier” on it.  The next gift chosen was a set of shot glasses, and this was also the first gift to be stolen.  It was also the first gift to be stolen 3 times so it was not steerable any more.  Some other gifts consisted of penis pastas, a tea kettle, a pillow, a head massager, candies, more candies.  

I think the group did pretty well wight eh whole game.  The steeling was solid, even though at first, people were reluctant (too polite) to do it.  But once a few people did it, people became ruthless.  Someone stole the Santa hat from Jordi so he was able to pick another gift….he chose another Santa hat.  It was the funniest moment of the night.