<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">All due respect to Wikipedia, but I've hosted White Elephant grab bag parties for decades, and the idea <i>isn't </i>to bring something worthless!! The idea is to <i>bring something you don't want or need that would very much appeal to others</i>. <div>Examples:<div> - CD or DVD that's a duplicate or just not yr taste</div><div> - a Tee that is too small/too large for yr own use (or the message just isn't "you")</div><div> - bottle of wine (not yr taste, or you've given it up for lent)</div><div> - bag of coffee/box of tea bags (you don't do caffeine anymore)</div><div> - jewelry (you decided not to pierce yr ears after all)</div><div> - sweets and treats (see wine, above)</div><div>In other words, bring something you'd donate (w/ everyone watching you do it) to the Sal Army or a friend's garage sale or silent auction. Always
a fun time, showing that one person's trash is another's treasure.</div><div> --Jenifer </div><div><div><br>--- On <b>Thu, 12/23/10, Karen Medina <i><kmedina67@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Karen Medina <kmedina67@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Peace] AWARE meeting Sunday, December 26, 2010 5pm 5 Litchfield Lane, <span>Champaign</span> / bring a white elephant gift if you want to play a game<br>To: peace@lists.chambana.net<br>Date: Thursday, December 23, 2010, 2:42 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Dec. 26th, the AWARE meeting will be chez Estabrook, Five<br>Litchfield Lane in Champaign (the last house on the left [sic] in a<br>cul-de-sac opposite Bottenfield School).<br><br>AWARE meeting<br>Sunday, December 26, 2010<br>5pm<br>5 Litchfield Lane, Champaign, Illinois (more on the location below)<br>Bring a white elephant gift if you
would like to play the game. The<br>"gift" should be of a value of as close to zero as you can get. If you<br>have something around the house you want to get rid of, this is<br>perfect. A slightly different take -- look for or create for something<br>peace related. See more of the explanation below.<br><br>More on the location:<br>* Litchfield Ln is east off S. Prospect Avenue, Champaign, Illinois;<br>south of Kirby Avenue, yet north of Windsor Rd., and north of<br>Devonshire Dr.<br>* Google map: <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=5+litchfield+lane+champaign&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=5+Litchfield+Ln,+Champaign,+Illinois+61820&gl=us&ll=40.092633,-88.255363&spn=0.007945,0.010557&t=h&z=16"
target="_blank">http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=5+litchfield+lane+champaign&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=5+Litchfield+Ln,+Champaign,+Illinois+61820&gl=us&ll=40.092633,-88.255363&spn=0.007945,0.010557&t=h&z=16</a><br><br>More on white elephant gift exchange:<br>* If we have six people or more, I propose that we play "white<br>elephant gift exchange" -- The goal of a white elephant party is to<br>entertain -- not to gain. Each participant is asked to bring a gift<br>worth no more than a pre-agreed upon amount. Nothing is a good amount.<br>The term white elephant refers to a gift whose maintenance costs<br>exceed its usefulness.<br>* Gifts are typically inexpensive, humorous items or used items from home.<br>1) Participants draw numbers from a hat to determine the order for<br>taking turns.<br>2) The players take turn in the corresponding succession.<br>3) Each person takes his or her turn choosing a gift.
The first<br>participant unwraps a gift from the pile and then shows it to<br>everyone. The next player can either "steal" an already opened gift or<br>be adventurous and go for a wrapped gift from the pile. If the<br>participant chooses to steal an unwrapped gift, the person whose gift<br>was stolen now repeats their turn and either steals another person's<br>gift (they cannot immediately steal back the gift that was just<br>stolen) or unwraps a new gift. This cycle of stealing can sometimes<br>continue for a long time until a new gift is chosen at which point the<br>turn is passed to the next participant.<br>(taken from a wikipedia entry, White Elephant Gift Exchange" (party<br>game): <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange</a> )<br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net"
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