My family knows me as the Grinch of the family - whose dislike of a certain holiday arrives annually on October 1st along with the 'holiday' commercials on tv. Bah, Humbug! ... as a wise man once said!
We will be meeting for a traditional Non-holiday meal, eaten by Non-holiday celebrating people on that Non-holiday when everything else is closed. (No purchase required to attend) We will meet at 4:27 pm - NOT 4:30 pm, and not 4:20 pm - I don't need your stinkin' rules! (I will be there until 7pm) There is a room reserved in the back that seats up to 70 people - so we will have plenty of room to stretch out. We may even make people who use a certain 'C' holiday word sit at a table in the corner.
I am going to attempt to provide a tv at the event so that we can all watch the greatest movie ever made - Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED:
I plan on having a traditional non-traditional non-gift exchange at 5:54pm (see note above about rules). If you are interested in participating, please follow these rules for picking out your non-gift to bring to the party.
1. You can not spend more than $20 on your non-gift.
2. You can not bring something that you would ever in your entire life even with a gun to your head ever allow to stay in your house overnight. That's right - this is a non-gift - something NO ONE will want. The ugliest / worst / funkiest / dumbest non-gift (as judged by Mr. Grinch or his appointee if he doesn't feel like it) will win a non-prize. (Just in case I have to say it - no actual trash please.)
3. No caching swag as your non-gift. (someone will probably want that)
4. The non-gift should be wrapped in Non-holiday wrapping paper with YOUR name on it. HOLIDAY WRAPPING PAPER WILL RESORT IN BOOS AND ANGRY SCOWLS FROM THE ATTENDEES. Birthday party paper, wedding paper, St. Patrick's day wrapping paper, etc are just fine.
5. We will be randomly distributing the wrapped non-gifts among the participants. Participants can exchange any WRAPPED non-gift for any other WRAPPED non-gift with any other participants, but only with the same participant one time. That means once you exchange a non-gift with Sue you can't exchange with her again, but you can exchange with Bob. Both participants must agree to exchange non-gifts.
6. Once you have unwrapped your non-gift, you are stuck with it. Nobody else wants that junk either.
Finally - please feel free to wear any type of costume or outfit you want to the party AS LONG AS it is not connected in ANY WAY to that certain Non-holiday next month. You wanna wear your Halloween costume one more time? Great! You really need to get your money's worth out of your old wedding dress? No problem! You always wondered what it would feel like to wear your wife's wedding dress in public? Now's your chance!
This is a kid-friendly, family-oriented event. You can even bring your muggles so you can show them just how nuts you are.