Secret Santa

Secret Santa ( in Scandinavia and Northern Germany Julklapp in Austria also Engerl and Bengerl ) is a pre-Christmas tradition which is maintained among work colleagues, in clubs, school groups, youth groups and in various Internet forums. In this case, another member of the group is determined by random selection for each group member from which it is then rewarded. The original, but now rarely practiced custom stipulated that the gift is the recipient up to an agreed deadline slipped secretly (such as within the Christmas season), hence the reference to the Imp, a Norse legendary figure who does mostly good. Nowadays it is mostly so that the gifts are exchanged at a ceremony. The type of gifts is predetermined coarse, usually is the originality of the gift in the foreground and the actual use value is low. Disadvantage is that you can not necessarily get what you would like.

The main advantage Answers holiday questions is that by the random assignment of Schenkendem and declare all group members are equal ( each must be exactly make a gift and also receives exactly one gift ) and, if existing cliques are skipped.

Expiration

The Secret Santa knows no uniform rules, the custom has evolved differently over time depending on the region or society. The assignment is done by drawing lots, the case must be ruled out that a member pulls itself.

Some of the gifts will be handed over personally. In general, the donee but will not know who sent his gift, for example by bathing all the gifts placed in the middle of the table and bear a label on which the name of the recipient is. Guessing the giver is sometimes part of the weighting holiday questions.

Alternative

In the grab bag or house Greul the participants are not previously associated with one another, the prepared gifts are distributed randomly. It is round in a circle, and at a fixed number (eg six ) one must take one of the wrapped presents and unwrap. The remaining participants are divided to keep rolling all the gifts. Then follows another, timed round, in which, depending on the number of actions to be carried out, for example:

• Three / four - Participants give her gift to her right / left neighbors.
• Six - The participant can or must be exchanged for the gift of another participant.

Motto Secret Santa

In addition to the approximate value sometimes the general nature of the gifts ( Imp motto ) is predetermined.

When scrap elves, dwarves junk, Gammel elves, dwarves horror, Ekelwichteln, Fies elves, dwarves cross, Scrap Julklapp, White- Elephant - Julklapp or abomination folding each giver chooses a particularly unpopular, tasteless or useless object made as a gift. It is the giver of humor and originality to prove, at best, a reference is made to the recipient.

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