Start Your Own Reverse Birthday Club.

Start your own Reverse Birthday club.

Here's how it works:

Get a group of your friends together. Make sure everyone is friends with everyone else.

About 3 to 6 people is plenty. Anything more and it starts to become too expensive.

Whenever it is the birthday of someone in the club, that person has to give presents to all the other club members. They don't get a present. That's why it is called a Reverse Birthday club.

After one year, you will have received presents from every other person in the club, and given presents to all the other club members once.

This allows you to focus on the Joy of Giving Gifts rather than the joy of receiving them.

Be prepared to work hard to find presents for all of your friends when your birthday date comes around.

Limit the amount of money everyone should spend to keep things fair.