I would find that completely cringey, and quite a bit attention-seeking on the part of the giver.
My main issue though is that I think there’s a whole boatload of assumptions there: that the people involved all like each other, everyone has roughly the same spending ability, no one is getting competitive about gift buying, no one gets anxious about the perfect gift, no one is going to feel bad because they very publicly got a kitchen mixer while someone else got an iPad, everyone is comfortable with this (and not shy or introverted).
If all of the above are true, and everyone wants to do it, then go for it. It would absolutely not work for my family though.
BeneficialDark1662 t1_j1j2m2e wrote
Reply to LPT: Change the way you do gifts on Christmas morning to make it more about giving than getting by dallassoxfan
I would find that completely cringey, and quite a bit attention-seeking on the part of the giver.
My main issue though is that I think there’s a whole boatload of assumptions there: that the people involved all like each other, everyone has roughly the same spending ability, no one is getting competitive about gift buying, no one gets anxious about the perfect gift, no one is going to feel bad because they very publicly got a kitchen mixer while someone else got an iPad, everyone is comfortable with this (and not shy or introverted).
If all of the above are true, and everyone wants to do it, then go for it. It would absolutely not work for my family though.