Even though I’ve definitely exchanged quite a number of Christmas gifts and participated in Secret Santa, I’ve never actually done a White Elephant gift exchange before until tonight. After two grueling days of sales conference time, we had a big revenue team party tonight, which included a white elephant gift swap. A few interesting gifts came up: a cocktail shaker (redundant for us since we already have a nice one) with a fancy two-inch cube ice tray; a Snoopy imprinted toaster/waffle maker (the child in me got so excited when I saw this), a chipmunk shaped hat. We are limited with space here, so what was I going to select? I’d always been attracted to those fancy and perfectly angled ice cubes, and so I decided to “steal” that from someone else who opened it. At the end of the night, I got to keep it.

When your goal is to rid your small apartment of clutter, being extremely practical isn’t so bad after all. These perfect and large ice cubes are going to get some use here.