I mentioned to my kids (18 and 22) that I might just put their names on the gift tags this year, and both look extremely disappointed, and said I'd better not. I thought they might be tired of my games. I just started doing this to be silly one year, and they had so much fun that I've been doing it for the past 15 Christmas.
You see, every year, I come up with some way to label the gifts as I wrap them and put them under the tree so that no one knows which present goes to which person until the morning of the 25th. I might use numbers or letters (but never their initial!) to label the presents, or a word/phrase such as "jingle bells" or "rudolf". I've used different color stickers or markers to label the presents.
One year, DD might be odd numbers and DS might be even, or vice versa. I might number them sequentially as I wrap, with a master list locked on my computer.
Both DD and DS said they love trying to figure out what's in a package and who it might go to in the time before Christmas.
So, does anyone else get creative or weird in labeling presents as a game?
You see, every year, I come up with some way to label the gifts as I wrap them and put them under the tree so that no one knows which present goes to which person until the morning of the 25th. I might use numbers or letters (but never their initial!) to label the presents, or a word/phrase such as "jingle bells" or "rudolf". I've used different color stickers or markers to label the presents.
One year, DD might be odd numbers and DS might be even, or vice versa. I might number them sequentially as I wrap, with a master list locked on my computer.
Both DD and DS said they love trying to figure out what's in a package and who it might go to in the time before Christmas.
So, does anyone else get creative or weird in labeling presents as a game?