I used to belong to a group who did this every Christmas. The basic premise is that each person will go home with the same number of cookies that she brought, but she will have a variety.
One key thing....bring an empty container as well as the container with your cookies!!! Otherwize you won't have anything to put your share in, while waiting for your original container to be emptied. Put all the cookies on a table. Circle the table, taking a cookie from each container to put in your (empty) container. Continue circling until you have picked up the number of cookies that you brought. When you have your dozen, two dozen, three dozen etc, you are out of the circle. Limiting it to one or two cookies from each container for each trip around the table will give everyone a chance to get a full variety. (There's always the chance that someone will see their favorite cookie, and want to claim the whole plateful.) You can either specify that each person bring, perhaps, three (four? six?) dozen cookies. Or you can leave it open for people to bring one, two, three, four, five, or six dozen. A single person may only want one dozen in her house. A person with six kids would need many more. Martha's comment on listing ingredients is a very good suggestion, if you have anyone in your group with a food or diet limitation. Enjoy your exchange. Alice in Oregon --- Bev Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > Closer to Christmas I'd like to do a cookie exchange > with > family. It seems straightforward, bring x dozen > cookies at 1 dozen per x > other people bringing cookies. Question, as I've not > done one before - to > anyone who has done such an exchange, any tips, > ideas, things to avoid? > > -- > bye for now > Bev on a sleepy autumn Sunday in Sooke, BC (on > Vancouver Island, west > coast of Canada) > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, > write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
