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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 2:32 pm 
its also called White Elephant
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 3:41 pm
What's your price range?
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 4:30 pm
That's interesting about the names. I've heard of that sort of gift exchange but not by those names. I can't remember what we call it.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 6:50 pm
I've heard of that type of thing as a Yankee Swap.
Maybe a page-a-day calendar, there should be several to choose from, jokes, cartoon strips, word of the day...
A gift card to a nearby coffee shop, bakery or café.
A book. One of those tins of 3 kinds of popcorn.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 8:08 pm
Yeah, I was surprised to see it on "The Middle". Price range is $20 or under. Last year, I remember someone getting a water fountain, a foot massager, Bath & Body Works lotions. Not sure what else. I really don't like the concept though. My niece is not going to be able to afford to participate. I don't want to either, but my co-workers tend to rope you into it.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 8:16 pm
If I know alot of people in the group I like to give a framed pic of me and then hide a 10 gift card inside, so at first people think its a crappy gift but turns out its awesome! LOL
this year I got a Bieber singing toothbrush and hide a starbucks card inside
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 8:35 pm
This is the website, but I don't know which robe it is. There's only a few so you should be able to recognize which it is.
https://dreamalittledreamwithme.com/collections/robes
Joely was the shop owner back then during that BB season. She still is.  She was in California then. She's now in Yuma, AZ.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 8:57 pm
Joely has an actual gift shop now, in Yuma.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 9:06 pm
$210 for a robe is a lot
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 17, 2017 - 11:50 pm
That is a Little Giraffe robe, but yes, expensive.
The robe a number of us bought is $115 currently. And of course you wait for a 20% discount and free shipping.
😜
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, December 18, 2017 - 12:08 pm
But it is a fabulous robe!!!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, December 18, 2017 - 1:28 pm
I bought one for a friend back in the day...she absolutely loved it.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, December 18, 2017 - 8:55 pm
Pamy, you are absolutely diabolical giving people a Bad Santa framed picture of yourself. I love it.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Monday, December 18, 2017 - 8:56 pm
LOL! I always say Hey! it's worth more than 10 bucks!
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 12:43 pm
I'm stumped about a movie. I thought it was Dan Akyroyd but his credits are so extensive I'm not getting there.
The movie was about a couple or two couples that fall down the "rabbit" hole in a weird town or house. I thought Donna Dixon might have been the wife but it is not Spies Like Us.
It wasn't a blockbuster film but it was silly funny.
Anyone know what I am talking about?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 1:11 pm
I think you might mean "Nothing but Trouble"? But there no Donna Dixon in this one.
A financier [Chevy Chase] meets a spurned lover [Demi Moore] and agrees to take her to a business meeting. On the way there, they run a stop sign in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. They are arrested and taken to the local court. But all is not as it seems: the courthouse and the "prison" are a maze of zany booby- traps and deadly contraptions. The antics of the captured couple as they try to escape from the mad judge and his bizarre family make up the rest of this unusual film.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/combined
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Whoami
Member
08-02-2001
| Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 8:27 pm
Maybe Pleasantville?
No Donna Dixon in this one either.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 9:17 pm
Gidget: The Couch Trip, Doctor Detroit, and Twilight Zone movie are three movies they apparently did together according to Google.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, December 22, 2017 - 3:56 pm
NEW Q:
My sister just started working for a "cleaning group", their speciality is hoarding situations, crime scene and death site clean ups. I was just talking to her and they did a clean up for someone who passed away. Anyway here is the question....
The company said if she sees something she likes/wants, she can take it. That seems wrong to me, unless they are told to throw everything into the trash then I guess it would be ok.
Is this legally ok for her to take something, she said she only saw a couple of pieces of china (cups) that she wanted. But I don't know.
Thanks.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, December 22, 2017 - 4:17 pm
I think that really depends on where the item would go if she didn't take it.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Friday, December 22, 2017 - 4:48 pm
If it's going to be "trashed", then she is ok to take it.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Friday, December 22, 2017 - 5:20 pm
my husband's job with the Sheriff/Public Administrator is to go through those houses and find things that would sell at auction. It's illegal for him to just take stuff. He works with those clean up co. all the time, especially if its a haz mat hoarder situation.
It is shocking the amount of people that die with no heirs or with heirs that dont want anything to do with their estate. There are also situations where the heirs are out of state and cant get here so the public admin dept (my hubby) goes out and goes through everything. The proceeds from items auctioned off goes to the estate(heirs) minus the fees for all the work the public admin did.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, December 22, 2017 - 6:23 pm
Well she did say the most recent one she did there are no heirs, the person who passed was the last of the line and had apparently been dead for a few weeks.
So what happens to the assets, do they just go to the state? I am thinking if they were in a house it could be sold, I have no idea in this case, just made me wonder.
It just seemed odd to me that the company even mentioned it.
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Friday, December 22, 2017 - 8:07 pm
my hubby did say that the clean up co can have whatever is left after the public admin goes thru and determines if anything of value should be brought in for auction. Also, there are some houses that are deemed nothing of value and then my hubby leaves, at that point they can have whatever they want also
this process varies by county in CA
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Friday, December 22, 2017 - 8:08 pm
if there are no heirs and there is stuff to bring in for auction. the proceeds minus public admin fees goes into the estate, it has to sit there for a period of time, if no one claims then it goes to the state
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