[Diary] White Elephant Gift Exchange

Do you know about the “White Elephant Gift Exchange” game during the Christmas Day? The gift which you bring is something you don’t need but still in good function. Typically, the gifts for exchanging are inexpensive, humorous, used items from home. Because of the goal of white elephant party is usually to entertain rather than to gain. Even so, I still bought three socks-made exquisite and cute dolls at Socks and Guava Festival in Shetou last Sunday, as the gift for white elephant party on Wednesday at Yo-Sir Café shop.

In order to prolong and make the party more interesting, there are some special rules of the white elephant game: (according to the wikipedia)

1. Each participant should supply one wrapped gift.

2. Participants choose the gift by turns.

3. The first one opens a wrapped gift and ends this turn.

4. The second person can choose to open another wrapped gift or “steal” a previously opened one.

5. If a person has their gift stolen, they can have the option of choosing a wrapped gift again or stealing an unwrapped one.

6. When all gift have been unwrapped, the game ends.

Although we don’t follow the right rules, we still enjoy the exchanging gift game very much. Jimmy draws the No.1 label from the packet and chooses the presents at first. The gift Jimmy opened is a scarf, which is supplied by Peggy. The second person, Josf, like the scarf very much and steals it immediately. So Jimmy has the option of choosing a wrapped gift again and the second gift he picked is a tempered glass food container. It is a pity for Jimmy that the glass food container is stolen by me.

Finally, Cherry get the a box of candy, the iPhone-style scratch paper and a muji tumbler, which are supplied by Josf. Peggy get a set of cute and stylish tableware, which is offered by Austin. Austin get my socks-made dolls. Will get the beautiful New Zealand postcards, which submitted by Jimmy. Jimmy get the high-class pen and cardcase, which are provided by Cherry. Even James, who was late for coming, gets a Christmas stocking. It’s a happy ending.


When opening the wrapped gift, everyone feel very exciting and interesting. Because you don’t know what you will take, that’s why the game is so popular. After the white elephant game every participant get closer to each other and that’s the most important goal of this game.