We attended Wifey's company Christmas party over the weekend. It was a pretty casual affair, with a mock casino complete with play money. At the end of the night, your play money is used to bid on any of several unmarked envelopes that contain prizes, including a huge LCD tv, an iPad mini, a Tassimo coffee maker and a bunch of other crap.
Near the end of the evening, my wife was getting pretty excited that we didn't have enough money to successfully bid on one of the envelopes. I was looking at the table of loot, then I leaned over and said to her "we don't need or even want any of that crap!".
I'll tell you this; the fun she had "selling" her play money for chocolate and promises of favours at work was worth far more than the 16 minutes of joy any of the loot on that table would've got her (and I REALLY didn't want to win that Tassimo).
Mainly though, I was actually surprised that I really didn't give two shits about the prizes on that table. Now we're gettin' somewhere!
