Secret Santa

      The chiming of the Salvation Army bells, the chilly wind, the (sometimes, actually a lot of the time) annoying holiday music at the mall or really anywhere you go (you just can't escape it!), the smell of annual scents like peppermint, a lot of holiday cookies with colorful Christmas colors, and the anticipation from people like me for Winter Break to finally come! That could pretty much sum Christmas up but than again I feel like it's more than that. But than there's the biggest issue, what to get your family and friends.
     My family and my extended family always have a Secret Santa thing set up, we gather together on Thanksgiving and have a Thanksgiving dinner together then we all put our names into a hat and we pull out a name and we then have to get a gift for that person. That's how Secret Santa works. Then, on Christmas Eve we gather together at my cousin's house, we have dinner, then comes the gifts!
     Getting a gift for your person is always tricky though, I mean you want the person to like the gift, right? So when buying a gift you need to keep some things in mind:

• Think about favorites, take into account their favorite actor/ actress, movie, book (if they read, I realize not all people read because they hate it), sports team, band/ artist, or a place to eat.

     Once you have that favorite thing in mind then get something relating to it, say your best friends favorite actor is Channing Tatum and her favorite actress is Rachel McAdams, it would probably be an amazing idea to get her The Vow, you know, assuming she doesn't have it yet.

• Think about the price limit, you obviously don't want to spend too much but you also don't want to be cheap. So say the price limit is from 20 to 30, then spending about 25 seems pretty decent.

     And finally:

• Think about quality, I like my presents to last pretty long like most people probably do, so don't be too cheap and invest in something that seems like it's worth the price. Look up reviews online if possible, that's usually a good, helpful indicator. 

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