I work for the gov. now, we get a 2 week shutdown, we leave the 17th and don't come back till the 3rd....what a racket, sooooo no christimassy things really.
annnyyywaayy...at my former co. we did a swap exchange thingy, everyone bought a gift, supposedly no less or more than roughly $30 and put it into the pool.
everyone has a number in hat, then we pull a number out of the hat turn by turn, that person picks a gift which is wrapped of course, the person opens the gift, the next person can select a wrapped gift OR take the one a person before them picked and give them what they picked.
No gift can be swapped or taken more than 3 times, so once you see somehting you like, there is a strategery to get a hold of it if you can based on your turn and if it has not been swapped 3 times........