Something funny I noticed about gift giving ...

[Corwin12]

My siblings and I do not exchange presents, per se. Neither do my friends and neighbors. However, I love buying bottles of wine and handing them out at Christmas. So, I bought a bottle for each of my brothers, my sister, my friend (I only have one ), and a few of my neighbors. I handed out a total of 9 bottles. I, in turn, was given 9 bottles as gifts from siblings, friend, and neighbors. We could have all met at the liquor store and made things easy for ourself.
However, since I opened a bottle every time someone came over my house during the Christmas weekend, I opened every single one of them plus a few from my secret stash.

 

[drgnfly30]

Everyone in my house got a $25 Itunes GC from someone else in the house... we could have just bought our own!

 

[kelleigh1]

Hubby bought me a CD that I already had and I bought him one that he already had. So we exchanged them back and now we each have a copy of the same one.

Other than that, no duplicate gifts in our house. Although, we suspect that we're getting a digital camera from my in-laws and one for my sister and my parents (they chipped in together). We plan on keeping both if that is the case and then we'll each have our own.

 

[shortbun]

My brother suggests we all throw cash into the center and dive for it. We typically get each other gift certificates. I suprised him with the new Tom Waits CD collection this year. He loves Tom Waits and didn't even know there was a new release.