W is for WEGESNAC
What is a WEGESNAC you may ask? It stands for White Elephant Gift Exchange Sunday Night At Church. This is our 3rd annual WEGESNAC, and it was a lot of fun as always. I got a $5 gift card to Starbucks and Josh got a $5 gift card to Culvers. I think we were the only ones to actually get gift cards.
For those that don't know, a White Elephant Gift Exchange is when Gifts are wrapped, but are not labeled to reflect a specific sender or recipient. Gifts are typically inexpensive, humorous items or used items from home and sometimes, they are just plain trash; participants draw a number to determine their order. The 1st participant unwraps any gift from the pile and then shows it to everyone. Each successive participant, in the order determined from the drawing can either "steal" an already open gift or go for a wrapped gift from the pile.
If the participant chooses to steal, the person whose gift is stolen now repeat their turn and either steals another person's gift (they cannot immediately steal back the gift that was just stolen from them) or unwraps a new gift. This cycle of stealing can stometimes continue for a long time, until a new gift is chosen, at which point the turn is passed to the participant with the next number from the drawing. Since items can be stolen, the item in your possession is not yours until the game is over once all the names have been drawn.
- Taken from wikipedia.org
12 comments:
Very interesting post! I wonder what sorts of gifts they are wrapping for this...
If you have time, please check my "W" posts here and here. Happy holidays!
Oh I love these kinds of things! We did this at a KPMG party with Dad!
Miss you all already!
love,
Mom
ps will post pics tomorrow or tonight if i don't fall asleep!
Never heard of that before, but I do love such traditions.
W is for waiting time over.
Merry Christmas!
I am SO impressed that you are #29 on the list! You are the coolest! I am glad you had fun. What cool present did you end up with?
Oh my goodness! I went to link my post at wordless wednesday and guess what number I am. 29. It's a sign : ) We have to be friends forever now : ). Merry Christmas D, J and A! Love you!
Great and funny post! Merry Christmas.
And here I thought your W would be *Wilson Words* blog.
Seasons greetings from my blog to your blog.
Bear((( )))
I just laughed SO hard about you having to re package all of your gifts : ). SO so SO funny : ). I am glad you had tape though.
I had tons of time to kill between opening presents and getting food ready. My family didn't come over until 5:00...
So today is a big day! I think the dog is coming. It's a long story! You will laugh : )! Much love to all of you! I can't wait to see Annabelle loving her slide!
I was hoping to catch a glimpse of one of those perfectly wrapped gifts...
Aren't you so excited to have off this week Danielle? Me too! I can't stop smiling! Well, except for when I look at the house. Then my smile disappears quickly : ). Naji and Bria make our life SO much more delightful...and SO much more messy!
Surely my eyes are deceiving me and there is a Christmas post here. Surely : ). What are we going to do for X?????
What a strange custom! But on the other hand, it might garantee that everyone gets something they might like?
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