Our Christmas Raffle
Happy Holidays everyone! How is the season going for you? 
I hope you still have that cheerful holiday spirit. I’m having a very restful vacation, with Christmas Eve as the biggest highlight. True to tradition, our little clan got together for the evening and had Noche Buena together.
One of our Christmas Eve traditions is holding a raffle. The prizes range from basic (seasoning and salt, shampoo) to lots of fun (chocolates and chips galore!). There are a lot of prizes to go around so everyone always wins!
Everyone picks a raffle stub. Instead of plain numbers on cardboard, my sister P made the stubs fun. She scanned and printed pictures of the two youngest in the brood. Then we both drew pretty borders to personalize each raffle stub. Notice that there’s a blank space at the center of each card. That’s where we scribble in the numbers.
After we were done with the stubs, my cousin Maxine put them all in a box. Then she went to each one of us so we can pick a raffle stub, any raffle stub.
Everyone won two prizes. It was so much fun. My husband hosted the raffle and made silly remarks about each prize, making us laugh till our bellies hurt. I won Chocolate Crunchies and milk tea. Nice!
The raffle doesn’t end yet though! After everyone had claimed their prizes, the swapping began! My Mom traded her candies for the household help’s salt and liquid seasoning (booby prize!). My husband the health buff traded his bag of chips with the fruit cups my uncle the junkfood addict won. Perfect swap! My sister and I swapped too.
And oh, what happened to the raffle stubs? My Dad put them on the Christmas tree!
Our Christmas Raffle is always fun. We look forward to this every year. I hope you had fun looking at some of the pictures too!
Now look at the raffle spread again… what would you have wanted to win? 
December 30th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
What a great idea! It looks like fun, too!
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December 30th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
We also have the same tradition buy yours is much creative. Gayahin ko cya nxt year. Happy new year toni
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December 30th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
No thought required. Pass me the Ruffles, PLEASE!
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December 30th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I will have the bag of chips. Thank you! hehe
Happy New Year, Toni!
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December 30th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Hello! This is such a great tradition. Do you mind if we do this on our next family celebration? (=
December 30th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
this looks like such a blast. I think I may try something like that.
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December 31st, 2008 at 5:51 am
toni and husby, happy new year!!!
we wish all the best for you in 2009!
much love and hugs all the way from dublin,
kj and odette
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December 31st, 2008 at 8:46 am
i want the chips, too! happy new year, toni!
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December 31st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
happy new year, toni! i am back blogging and bloghopping. i’ll see you around, dearest. hi to H. hugs hugs hugs!
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January 1st, 2009 at 7:54 am
Happy New Year Toni!
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January 1st, 2009 at 11:05 am
Hahaha!
I’ve been eyeing those three packs of Chocnuts.
Masayang New Year sa inyo!
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January 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
What a great tradition!
Personally, I would’ve loved the Ruffles Potato Chips or Choc Nut. Is it obvious I’m a junk food freak?
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January 3rd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
did you give up the tuna? akin na lang?
January 5th, 2009 at 9:57 am
That is so fun! And what a great idea, especially when you have a large family gathering. I have to remember this….
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January 5th, 2009 at 10:51 am
happy new year toni!
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January 6th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I think I will start doing this this year. This seems to be a really good way to make Xmas fun.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
What a nice idea Toni! I’m sure you had loads of fun!
Happy New Year! Wishing you many great opportunities in 2009.
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