In 2019, our family (12 adults, 4 kids) decided we would draw names for the next year and each only have one gift to be responsible for outside their immediate household. The gift had to be homemade or from a thrift store or garage sale. It was a lot of fun. The weekend before Christmas, we had an early dinner, played games and did our gift exchange before drawing names for next year (this year). Gifts ranged from handmade quilts to steampunk lamps to framed photos to vintage dessert plates to home brewed beer to a homemade apple press for Grandpa. The kids really enjoyed making gifts. This way the parents of the kids still had their Christmas mornings at home without all the extended family to worry about, it took off a lot of pressure for everyone and the gifts were one of a kind.
In 2019, our family (12 adults, 4 kids) decided we would draw names for the next year and each only have one gift to be responsible for outside their immediate household. The gift had to be homemade or from a thrift store or garage sale. It was a lot of fun. The weekend before Christmas, we had an early dinner, played games and did our gift exchange before drawing names for next year (this year). Gifts ranged from handmade quilts to steampunk lamps to framed photos to vintage dessert plates to home brewed beer to a homemade apple press for Grandpa. The kids really enjoyed making gifts. This way the parents of the kids still had their Christmas mornings at home without all the extended family to worry about, it took off a lot of pressure for everyone and the gifts were one of a kind.