Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker
Approximately 25 years ago my family started a tradition that is still part of our Christmas today.
My family all loves to play the Dollar Game. I am sure everyone has played it, but our family takes all year looking for “gag” gifts or something unique for the game.
This year my family increased, so we had more $1 gifts and got to go around 3 times.
We drew numbers and we’re ready to play and make sure we do not wind up with the 25 year old dreaded underwear.
The person who gets stuck with the antique bloomers has to bring them back next Christmas.
Of course, the underwear are usually disguised in some type of package to fool everybody.
Those undies has been hidden in a Pringles can, a picture frame, inside a book, in vases, tissue boxes and each year the ideas for disguising the pair of underwear has become like a task of seeing how creative you can be.
The game starts. Oh my!! Anticipation is high.
Some of the gifts unwrapped were an umbrella, red and blue hair color, swimming goggles, a big red hat, room spray, candy, a cookbook and the upper plate to a pair of false teeth. ( the teeth have been around before as my granddaughter had made them in college. )
On the dollar game table was a big pink sack. Grandson Chris opened and there was a big blow up balloon inside.
As he batted the balloon around someone said, ” Look in the bottom of the balloon.”
Sure enough, whoever wrapped those underwear had somehow managed to get them inside a balloon. Of course, my grandson traded off the balloon (with you know what) in it and I am still not sure who wound up with the prized under pants. Wow whoever got them will need to think all year on how to disguise them.
It is so refreshing for me to think back to when my older grandkids were younger, how they played the Dollar game and cried if they got the underwear. Now they are right in there thinking of new and unique ways to wrap the 25 year old undies.
Have you ever played the Dollar game? Do you think you could squeeze a pair of undies into a balloon? Let me know and I’ll give you a Penny for your Thoughts.
