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A white elephant gift exchange, [1] Yankee swap [2] or Dirty Santa [3] [nb 1] is a party game where amusing and impractical gifts are exchanged during Christmas festivities. The goal of a white elephant gift exchange is to entertain party-goers rather than to give or acquire a genuinely valuable or highly sought-after item. [ 3 ]
White elephant sales are often useful to buyers and collectors, because they provide a way to purchase older and harder to find items. In the days before online auction and trading websites, white elephant sales, along with thrift stores, yard sales and pawn shops were popular ways to procure collectibles and odd items not available in retail ...
White Elephant organizers could play the "dice game" variation, which incorporates a pair of die and a rules sheet created by the gift organizer. In this variation, players can select their ...
The phrase was attached to "white elephant swaps" and "white elephant sales" in the early twentieth century. [7] Many church bazaars held "white elephant sales" where donors could unload unwanted bric-à-brac, generating profit from the phenomenon that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" and the term has continued to be used in this ...
The white elephant gift exchange is also known as a "Yankee swap" or "dirty Santa," depending on where the host lives. In these games, everyone brings a wrapped gift to contribute to a shared pool ...
The gift-giving season is upon us, which means the return of a controversial holiday game: the White Elephant gift exchange. Whether you call it White Elephant , Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa, the ...
Here's what to know about White Elephant gift swaps and how to play the game. What is a White Elephant gift exchange? White Elephant is a party game in which players bring wrapped gifts at a set ...
White elephant parties are the wild west of gift exchanges – where chaos reigns and social boundaries crumble faster than holiday cookies. These aren't your grandma's predictable presents. We're ...