Comments on: My Family Does a Yankee Swap http://cjbowker.com/behaviors/yankee-swap/ What it's like to be hated for your job title... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Throckmorton Jones http://cjbowker.com/behaviors/yankee-swap/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Throckmorton Jones Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:02:35 +0000 http://cjbowker.com/?p=118#comment-421 Forest- here in the US, change stays on the gift card, and if you return the item to the store, the money goes back onto the gift card. There is absolutely no way to receive cash back from a gift card. They don't want you to be able to take that money and spend it in another store. I like the idea of a Yankee swap. There's always something you get that you really don't care much for- in my case its calendars I get from my mom every Christmas, and clothing that happen to be white. I wear a lot of black, and some bright colors, but never white, yet I always receive white clothes. I guess this is kind of like a White elephant swap. Everyone takes a gift that looms unwanted in their house like a white elephant, wraps it up, and does a gift exchange with others. Afterward, when they are all opened, everyone is allowed to make one trade to get something better if they want. Forest- here in the US, change stays on the gift card, and if you return the item to the store, the money goes back onto the gift card. There is absolutely no way to receive cash back from a gift card. They don’t want you to be able to take that money and spend it in another store.

I like the idea of a Yankee swap. There’s always something you get that you really don’t care much for- in my case its calendars I get from my mom every Christmas, and clothing that happen to be white. I wear a lot of black, and some bright colors, but never white, yet I always receive white clothes.

I guess this is kind of like a White elephant swap. Everyone takes a gift that looms unwanted in their house like a white elephant, wraps it up, and does a gift exchange with others. Afterward, when they are all opened, everyone is allowed to make one trade to get something better if they want.
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]]> By: Forest http://cjbowker.com/behaviors/yankee-swap/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Forest Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:12:49 +0000 http://cjbowker.com/?p=118#comment-418 I thought if you underspent on a gift card they gave you change in cash? At least in England it works like that so I always plan to slightly underspend. As for the swaps, that is a great idea. I kind of don't like getting gifts, not because I don't appreciate them, but because I don't really want or need anything. I thought if you underspent on a gift card they gave you change in cash? At least in England it works like that so I always plan to slightly underspend.

As for the swaps, that is a great idea. I kind of don’t like getting gifts, not because I don’t appreciate them, but because I don’t really want or need anything.
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