Tag: white elephant gifts
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When The Elephant In The Room Is Laughing
With all the different parties happening this time of year, one of my favorites includes those where white elephant gifts are exchanged. That delightful time when you can hunt through your home for those wonderful treasures you hated to pitch but would thoroughly enjoy gifting as a joke. The term “white elephant” has morphed in…
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There’s An Elephant In The Room–And It’s White
‘Tis the season to give gifts. Which assumes a desire on the part of the giver, that there’s a relationship with the receiver. Connection. The joy of giving. Not always. Often we end up with obligatory giving, which ends up being costly and not very satisfying. Ho ho humbug. One of the more popular forms of…
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Wrap It Up With A Smile
“What’ve you got that I can give?” Ethan, Sydney and Teagan came into the house with a mission. To find a white elephant to give at a Christmas party. I’m not sure any of them really grasped what a white elephant gift was. But the hunt was on. Ethan pulled out a thick coloring book…