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Default Cookie exchange at work ideas.

Oh pshaw, on Wed 10 Oct 2007 05:48:37p, Myrl Jeffcoat meant to say...

> On Oct 10, 5:36 pm, pamjd > wrote:
>> I was asked to organize a homemade cookie exchange at work. I am
>> thinking people will drop off cookies( bring 24 cookies get 24
>> cookies) on Weds. or Thurs. and pick up a assorted box of cookies on
>> Fri. Someone suggested no bars or no bake cookies. Has anyone done a
>> similar exchange at work and be willing to share advice or experiences
>> about how it went? Thanks,

>
>
> I worked for several years at a company that had this tradition. It
> was wonderful. We'd take 3 dozen cookies to work, put them on a
> conference room, and then those that had participated in the baking,
> would walk around the table, and select varieties of cookies brought
> in by others to take home.
>
> I loved it! I was busy back then, and during the holidays I'd only
> have time to make a couple of different kinds of cookies here at home,
> so being able to exchange to obtain a "variety" was a really good
> thing.
>
> Myrl Jeffcoat
>
>


I think it was a couple of years in a row that we had a cookie exchange
here on r.f.c. Most who participated were very happy with the results. It
was different, though, in that we exchanged names and sent a batch of
cookies to the person whose name we got.

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