{"id":582,"date":"2008-12-20T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2021-01-20T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:13:09","slug":"the-rules-to-chinese-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/the-rules-to-chinese-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rules to Chinese Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I come from a huge family on my mom\u2019s side. When I was younger the numbers were still pretty manageable, so everybody bought gifts for each other. However, my mom is 1 of 8 children and over the years all of her brothers and sisters have had kids and all of those kids got married and had kids. Now when the holidays roll around there\u2019s anywhere from 30 to 50 adults and God knows how many little kids. Yes, we\u2019re the redneck version of the Duggars<\/a>. A few years ago the Elders (my aunts) got together and decided that trying to buy for everyone would basically put everyone in the poor house. That was the year we started playing Chinese Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I\u2019ve heard it called several things in addition to Chinese Christmas like White Elephant Christmas or Indian Christmas. As with the different names, there are several different ways to play it. So here\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do to make your next family, or friend’s, Christmas party a whole hell of a lot more fun. I\u2019m going to tell you the proper rules to Chinese Christmas \u2013 The Drunk Pirate Rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, everyone has to bring a gift. It\u2019s best to set a limit of about $20 so everyone can afford to play. It\u2019s also a good rule of thumb to buy something you would actually want like Apples to Apples. Next, put a number in a hat for every person who\u2019s there. Everyone then draws a number to determine their order. Now you have to make sure you have a shot glass and a bottle of Black Velvet. (Canadian whiskey is perfect for the holidays)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever it\u2019s someone\u2019s turn, they have to pick a present and take a shot. After opening the present they can choose to keep it or trade it for someone else\u2019s present. If they chose to trade with someone else, they and the person they are trading with, must both take a shot. Now it\u2019s pretty obvious that the person who goes first gets screwed and the person who goes last gets their pick of the best gift. So what we normally do is let the person who picked number 1 go again at the end. But in Drunk Pirate rules, they can either choose to go again or make everyone take one last shot altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I come from a huge family on my mom\u2019s side. When I was younger the numbers were still pretty manageable, so everybody bought gifts for each other. However, my mom is 1 of 8 children and over the years all of her brothers and sisters have had kids and all of those kids got married […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3122070443_781d46095d_o.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3122070443_781d46095d_o.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"James","author_link":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/author\/james\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedrunkpirate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}