I really don't care for the "Chinese auction or Dirty Santa" exchanges either. I try to give something I'd really like to receive (like a nice bottle of wine from a vineyard I know our whole family loves) and I almost ended up(phew escaped barely) with a hodge podge of coffee cups and beef jerky...they were at the lumber yard and remembered they needed a gift so just grabbed stuff at the counter...really???

I'm also not fond of the gag gifts. I have enough "stuff" that I don't need something you think is funny and I sure don't want to waste money on junk for you.

The older I get the less I like it. Guess I got the grumpy bone in my santa sock :)

Since there aren't many people left in my family and there are more children than anything I get for my DGC and if I choose to do anything else I bake or make something.