That's why, when we heard that there was a White Elephant Gift Exchange at our Christmas Reunion party, Erin and I were giddy with excitement. We stormed my mom's basement closet (a veritable gold mine of White Elephant gifts), and dug up some treasures.
Exhibit A:
One of my dolls from at least 20 years ago. We'll call her Rogain Girl. The way she works is that you put the bolt of hair straight through her cranium, where there is a large hole. From the hole in her back, and using the tab at the root of the hair, you pull the hair through until you reach the desired length. You have either Blonde or Purple hair to choose from. We loved this doll. Twenty years ago, that is! 
(We caught Deborah trying to behead Rogain Girl)
Exhibit B:
Christmas Card Holder. You have Santa in a sleigh on one end, his reindeer at the other. On his reigns of Red Yarn, you hang your Christmas Cards! Cute! Or, at least it was 30 years ago!!
We also went to the party with some unopened Book of Mormon Character computer games from 1992. We wrapped all the White Elephant Gifts deceptively nicely. heh, heh. So, off we went to the Reunion Party, swelling with pride at our clever White Elephant Gifts. The way we won the gifts was by playing BINGO. We were totally in, and totally serious. Erin was the first Bingo winner. We were so excited to see what other hilarious gifts others had brought. She chose her prize...opened it...and... it was... a brand new set of cute gloves!!!
YIKES!!!!!!!
Either we had misread the party invitation, or other family members' idea of "white elephant gift" didn't exactly coincide with ours.
We all looked at each other and said, "We have to get that DOLL!!!" Now we were playing BINGO with purpose! We were intense. Adam won and grabbed that doll before some poor child opened it up and screamed. Then we methodically proceeded to win back all of our monstrous gifts. By the time we looked up from the table, we noticed we were the only ones left at the party. I still hadn't won anything yet. My uncle was actually looking over my shoulder and calling out the numbers that I needed.
Finally I won! I got the last white elephant gift, and opened it...it was the Ronald Regan Paper Doll Set from 1984!! Virtually uncut and unused! HA!! Thank you Tyson & Tamara from saving us from complete White Elephant Hell!
Here we are with all of our White Elephant BOOTY! (notice the cute gloves at the front)
The White Elephant craze was hot now, so we decided to continue it through to Adam's unfortunate Birthday.
Exhibit C: Deborah and I have been saving this one for years: The Richard Simmons Deal-A-Meal Program! No explanation necessary.
Also from Debs, Exhibit D:
"The Intelligent Body" cassette tape series. 3,496 easy steps to an Intelligent Body. I'm in. Are you?
Exhibit E:
Fruit Smoothie Recipe Book. Fine, no White Elephant vibes there. Oh wait. Look at the smoothie on the front cover. It's Radioactive Green. The most un-appetizing shade for a smoothie imaginable. Now we have a White Elephant Gift.
Exhibit F:
Ha. Tricked you. Adam actually DID receive a real gift that night. An iTunes gift card from all my siblings. But we wrapped it in that HUGE box! Hahaha! :) We're just so clevah!!
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