All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white working class

Re:All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white w... by inanutshellus on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:44AM (#10931026)

RE: Christmas - I'm sort of on the opposite end of that problem, but the way we solved that is to do a Dirty Santa party instead of giving individual gifts to everyone. That way the affluent relatives don't feel guilty for providing cool gifts to everyone and the less affluent don't feel ashamed for providing what they can.

("Dirty Santa" is where everyone brings one gift -- we do $10 -- and then you play a game where you either open a random gift from the pile or steal someone's opened gift. It's pretty fun. To me it's more fun than "real" christmas gifting...)

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Re:All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America’s white w... by SilasX on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:17PM (#10932612)

I've heard of that by the name White Elephant gift exchange.

Edit: Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange

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