All the "Yankee swaps" I've been to always allowed for a gift from home that wasn't necessarily bought in this decade. In fact, some of the best ones I've been to have been when someone unloaded all their old cookbooks or the felted hat they made 5 years ago and never wore or the primitive Sculpy angels they cooked up right before the party (I just put those up with the other xmas decorations, and I remember that dear friend every time I pull them out). People FOUGHT over the felted hat!

I wouldn't know how much a T-fal skillet is worth, if I ended up with it.

Karen (we call it "Dirty Santa")