Red is the Color

This year’s Christmas exchange is a specified dollar amount, but the color of the gift has to be red! Before this claim was staked, red was everywhere. Now, I can’t find it.

My family does a wacky Christmas gift exchange every year. (It is a tradition I omitted in the wedding vows.) Last year the giver could only have the gift be everything acquired “for free“ throughout the year. Thus, we had hotel amenities, ”King Soopers free Friday downloads,” Menard’s offers, rebates, Scholastic Books paraphernalia. It was pretty darn interesting. The year before the exchange was the “As Seen on TV” year. The gift had to be of that particular specification. It was fun because you would never buy most of that for yourself, but somehow getting it as a gift made it kosher. (btw…Wal-Mart and Walgreens have great sections for that exchange.) Before that, it was anything from your storage unit/basement/Goodwill.

As always, you bring a gift, you get a gift. Age is no boundary.

Nobody needs anything. We are blessed. However, we do seem to need fun and a challenge of sorts, because, we are those kind of people. Silly as it may seem, we laugh more with this way of thinking and “gift stealing” than we would if we paid thoughtful attention to our family and sought the perfect gift. Maybe we’re just lazy? It’s entirely possible. Maybe we don’t pay enough thoughtful attention to each other? Highly likely.

Thus, the parameters are limited this year. Red.