I went to such a fun Holiday party yesterday – dubbed a “Favorite Things” party. The instructions were:
Each person brings THEIR favorite thing (anything you like.. your favorite beauty product, favorite kitchen tool, favorite craft supply, a gift card for your favorite food, whatever). In the past, we set $$ amount to around $5 an item, but it is completely up to you if you would like to go above or below that amount, it’s just a general baseline.
Each person brings FIVE of the same thing (wrapped or unwrapped, it does not matter). When you arrive at the party, you write your name on five slips of paper and throw them in a big bowl. Your Favorite Thing is to remain a secret from the group. The bowl is passed around, and each person takes five names, making sure you don’t pick your own or duplicate names. One at a time each person introduces their favorite thing and then reads the five names they picked from the bowl, passing out their gift to those five guests. After everyone at the party has presented their favorite thing, each person should end up with five gifts to take home.
Since you are bringing something that YOU like, there’s no pressure to find something for someone you don’t know, AND you get to leave with 5 new presents!
Ummmm it was SO FUN. I only really knew the hostess so it was a good way to get to know everyone in the room (there were like 26 of us) and a little about them. The hostess kept a running list of all the items brought and is going to email it out to all of us soon so we can purchase things on our own if we’d like. So many great gifts – I got a metal water bottle, a super-absorbent hair drying towel, makeup wipes/dry shampoo, coffee beans from the Galapagos Islands, and a champagne bottle stopper/cork. Some of the other gifts given out that I want to buy are a cedar blossom candle from Trader Joes, a coconut oil make up stick from Whole Foods, and a hair mask from St Tropica that you microwave and sleep in.
I brought five $5 Dunkin Donuts gift cards. I made connections with people there based off sharing that “growing up on Long Island and going to school in the Northeast I took this for granted. It wasn’t until I was living in Texas and Alabama and without it, I really became obsessed with this place – revealing it was Dunkin Donuts. I also shared their brand colors are also 2 of my favorite colors – I explained how the colors were chosen in the 80s because donuts are supposed to be fun and the designer’s young daughter’s favorite colors at the time were pink and orange.” I noted my favorite drink to order and wrote it on the sleeve as a suggestion. From there I was able to connect with a guest from Long Island (we have a mutual friend) and someone from Alabama!
10/10 highly recommend. I’d love to host one next year!
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