White elephant gift exchanges offer people an opportunity to wrap up something they no longer want and anonymously exchange it within a group. Sometimes one person’s trash is another person’s treasure – other times it’s just trash to everybody. It's difficult to give a gift you’re sure the other person wants. Most of the time we just hope for the best. The gifts to Jesus from the magi were so strange that you can’t help but wonder, “What would a baby do with gold, frankincense, and myrrh?”