Jolly (belated) Twelve Day!

Jolly Twelve Day to all my readers! Yes, I'm a day behind, seeing as it's now the 13th, but better late than never.

Twelve Day, for all of you who are unfamiliar with the holiday, was invented by some of my friends back when they lived in the dormitories at Kent State. It was their way of celebrating Christmas before everyone had to leave campus for winter break (also, it's a celebration of the twelfth day of the twelfth month). They would exchange cheapo gifts (college students, remember, do not have much money) and generally goof-off. Well, the tradition has continued and we celebrated last night in typical Twelve Day fashion.

Twelve Day has some rules to the gift-giving...in order to participate one must purchase three gifts that total $15. I know some celebrants who buy one really nice/cool gift and then spend $1 or $2 on the remaining two gifts, but my goal is to usually buy three gifts at around $5 each. It's also important to remember that Twelve Day is not Christmas, so gifts are to be goofy/juvenile/tacky. Because there is a low price limit, random gifts from the dollar store are quite common.

I purchased a My Little Pony coloring book with some Crayola glitter crayons, a miniature Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader figurine set, and (my personal favorite) a package of High School Musical stickers and a Harlequin romance novel (The Italian Billionaire's Secret Love Child, no, I am not making up that title). Naturally, I made sure that the Harlequin book and HSM stickers went to one of the guys in the group.

I received three coloring books, a box of Cars metallic crayons, a set of Hannah Montana crayons, a pirate sword, a Winnie-the-Pooh paddle ball game, a Pirates of the Caribbean night light, and randomly, a bride and groom cake topper. Good stuff.