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When it comes to Christmas I really don’t like gift exchange games like Secret Santa. You pick someones name and then you give that person a gift you think they’ll like. I’m always in a continuous argument with myself of “Will that person like my gift?”, “If I give this gift, does it imply that I’m cheap?”, “Does this gift even matches the person I’m giving it to?”, “Is this gift even useful?”, etc.. In birthdays if you gave a gift and thought it didn’t hold up, it didn’t matter cause that person is still getting showered with other gifts. However in this gift giving, you only get one shot to “please”.

This year a new game was played called White Elephant, and I completely approve. There’s no stress in it because the present you give goes under the tree for anybody to choose or “steal”.

Here’s how the game works, everyone buys a gift (usually inexpensive) and it goes under the tree. Then you draw a number (usually from a hat), and the number decides the order that you go in.

The person who is first will select a gift to open and then show it off to everyone. Then the second person (and everyone after) can pick a new gift or they can “steal” a gift that somebody has opened. The person who has had their gift “stolen” gets another turn of opening a new gift or “stealing” someone else’s.

There is no “steal-backs” and an item can only be stolen up to 3 times then it’s determined “safe”. The game is over when everyone has a gift.

When it was my turn I was about to “steal” a chocolate fondue fountain, but I went with getting a gift from the tree. I ended up with house shoes, my mom got a foreman grill, and my dad got hella socks plus other items.

Overall it’s fun, anonymous, and random.

Well, I hope you had an awesome Christmas, cause I did!

(My Comments Added)

You’re a 90′s kid if:

You remember watching:
-Doug
-Pinky and the Brain
-AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!
-Rocko’s Modern Life.
-Animaniacs
-The Angry Beavers
-Gargoyles

You’ve ended a sentence with the word “PSYCH!” or “SIKE!”
Yup!!!

You just cant resist finishing this… “Iiiiiiin west philladelphia born and raised…”
True, true

You remember TGIF on ABC.
-Step by Step
-Family Matters
-Dinosaurs
-Boy Meets World.

You remeber SNICK on Nickelodeon
-Clarissa Explains It All
-Roundhouse
-The Ren & Stimpy Show
-Are You Afraid Of The Dark?
-All That
-The Secret World Of Alex Mack
-Keenan and Kel

You remember when 2Pac, Notorious BIG, and Selena died.
RIP to all of them

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
This is hella true. Are there any cartoons on saturday mornings?!

Playing Oregon Trail in school.
I thought I only experienced this one.

PBS Showed:
-The Magic School Bus
-Wishbone
-Reading Rainbow
-Ghostwriter

You remember reading “Goosebumps”
I also remember reading the goosebumps where you choose your own actions.

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
I had a Ghostbusters box!

You remember the craze of slap bracelets and slam books.
Hmm, slap bracelets, but I don’t remember slam books.

You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence…Not…
Ha, like Psych, I sometimes use it

When kick ball was a daily activity.

You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record “Your FAVORITE song of ALL time”
I remember listening to a tape, having a song cut off, then flipping the tape over to finish the song, lol…

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
The WARRANT!!!

Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.
Gonna take pollution down to zero

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
Yes, yes…

You remember when super nintendo’s and Sega Genisis became popular.
In the end of the 16-bit fight, SNES came out on top!

You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos… but never taped anything funny.
Ha, yeah…

When everything was settled by:
-rock paper scissors or
-bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or
-inkky dinkky donkey

You remember when Yomega Yo-Yos were cool.
I always wanted to be a yo-yo master…

You remember those Where’s Waldo books..
Wish I kept them too

You remember when Mortal Kombat wuz tha ####!
When blood was showin on Sega, OMFG!!!

You remember eating Warheads and Splashers Gum.
I remember always getting a bag before going to class in the morning

You remember watching the 1st Batman, Aladin, Ninja Turtles, and 3 Ninjas movies.
Ha yeah… I remember

U remember Ring Pops.
Yes I do

One word.. Trolls.

You remember The Original Game Boy.
That fat handheld, with no color, hahaha

U remember drinkin’ Fruitopia and Surge.
Yup, hahaha Surge…

if you memeber when every thing was “da BOMB”
I know people who still say “Da Bomb!”

when they made the new lunchables so that you could make tacos and pizza!!
I never really had lunchable, but i do remember Capri Suns

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
I had a boom box

Writing M.A.S.H. notes. (and the twenty different versions of that)
I hella forgot about this one!!!

Making those little paper fortune cookie things.. and then
predicting your life with them.
I hella forgot about this one too!!!

You knew all the characters names and their life stories on “Saved By The Bell”
So true..

You played and/or collected “Pogs”
Pogs and slammers, playing for keeps, and doing ridiculous moves like “Black Magic”.. Bahahaha.

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
A weak ass one from KFC when you buy a family meal, he drowned, litterally the Tamagotchi fell in water

You haven’t always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
The internet wasn’t really a big thing to me when I got on it back then… AOL 1.5!!!

Carebears

Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!
Yes they were!!!

All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.
…

Being a Fox Kid, and watching:
-Bobby’s World
-Beetlejuice
-Batman (Animated Series)
-Superdave
-Eek! The Cat
-Xmen
-Tiny Toon Adventures
-Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

You collected those Beanie Babies.
Ha, my mom did…

You remember a time before the WB.
Yes I do…

If you even know what an original walkman is.
Yes I do…

You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
Actually I really wanted to get slimed

You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
Well the intro is hella scary!!!

You know the Macarena by heart.
The dance but not the lyrics…

You remember “American Gladiators” and watched it like a religion.
I remember, but never watched it like a religion…

“Talk to the hand” … enough said
Ah crap..

You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”
Actually, Isaiah used to say that to me…

You went to McDonald’s to play in the playplace.
I remember asking my mom to go to McDonalds in Tanforan just so I could play in the playplace!!!

You remember playing on merry go rounds…at the play ground.
Actually, the entire playgrounds at my old school was all metal out, none of this plastic weak stuff.

When we were younger:

Before the MySpace frenzy…

Before the Internet & text messaging…

Before Sidekicks & iPods…

Before PlayStation 3 or X-BOX 360…

Before Sponge Bob

Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.

When light up sneakers were cool.
Even I had a pair…

When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
Yupp!!!

When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
I don’t remember gas prices but I do remember Caller ID being new

When we recorded stuff on VCRs .

When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.
I was too scared to call in…

When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.
Yes..

When making out was having sex
About so…

When you traded pokemon cards
Everyday I was hustlin…

You Actually played outside until it was dark!

Way back.

Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.

It was such a different world.