Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Secret Santa slothfulness...

So I was curious as to how many of your families out there do Secret Santa instead of buying everyone gifts! Every year its becomes very daunting trying to buy presents for absolutely every relative..and then..what if you forget one? You run out and buy that last minute gift (ie whatever is left on that wal-mart shelf) and hurry to Christmas dinner?! What a nightmare!
My family starting doing "Dirty Santa" last year. We figured since all the kids are grown up (or at least until we have great grand-kids running around) that we would all just bring one gift...and if you didnt want to open a new gift you could take someone else's. It's kinda fun..but also sometimes kinda difficult trying to pick out a gift that everyone would enjoy! I finished all of my christmas shopping except for my dirty santa gift..and I knew I had to think of something unique..here's what I came up with!



I'd been seeing these all over the place and apparently they're flying off the shelves everywhere! I can't imagine their APEAL! (a peel, get it?) haha! Tadaaaa! bananagrams! These little things are filled with a little word game (similar to scrabble i think) and come in a cute little banana shaped bag! I know what you're thinking...LAAAAAME..so I knew I had to get something to go along with it! Hmmm what would go with Bananas? Bananas.....MONKEYS!! So I picked up this fun little container of Monkey Bread Mix to go with it!



How fun!? A Very Cheap and simple gift all for under 20 dollars!! With a 35 dollar limit, I did a pretty good job! I might even head down to the market and buy a loaf of homemade banana bread just kick it up a notch! happy hunting!
Just thought I'd share....I was excited about it!! :)
Merry Christmas.... 8 more days!!!!

Love
~Meg

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

that is so cute! I would never be able to come up with something like that!

VA2NY said...

ok so I am just going to steal all of your ideas! LOL! I will be playing dirty santa with some allstate peeps on saturday at don hos! WOO!

Lee and Megan said...

haha ya'll are funny! And tracy feel free to take ANY of my ideas..thats why I posted it! :)