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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be thrilled.  When my mom's siblings stopped exchanging gifts, they all put the money they used to spend towards buying Christmas dinner for a family in need.  My aunt worked at a high school, so she knew what families were really hurting that year (whose dad had lost his job, whose mom was really sick, etc.).  She would choose a family, and everyone else would go shopping for the meal and to stock their pantry.  Everyone liked it much better--they were doing something as a family, but they weren't just buying each other more stuff they didn't need.  [/quote]

We did this among my group of friends many years ago -- it was so much fun! You could buy all the things you don't have anyone to buy for now, in my case GIRL kids (I have 9 nephews). And assembling the stuff for dinner was a blast. We gave everything to one friend who knew a teacher who was collecting for a family in her classroom and about a month later we got the most amazing collection of thank you notes from the family![/quote]

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