August 28th is TreeFinger Day!  It's possible that you don't know what TreeFinger Day is, especially if you're not in my immediate family or the childhood friend who invented it with me.  That's okay, because it's easy to learn, fun to celebrate, and won't cost you a dime!

Recently (last year, maybe?), my family and I came up with a great way to celebrate the imaginary holiday of TreeFinger Day: we give each other imaginary gifts.  At dinner we go around the table, singling out each person in turn, and everyone else says what gift they would give to that person if they could give any gift at all.  The gifts don't have to be real or even possible, but they should reflect an understanding of the wishes/interests of the person getting the gift. 

For example, last year I gave Katie a part in the upcoming Harry Potter movie (due to her love of acting and all things HP), and someone gave me a state-of-the-art home theater (for obvious reasons).  Meg, the book-lover, got the castle library from Beauty and the Beast.  And so on.

So this year, I highly recommend you have your own TreeFinger celebration around the dinner table tonight.  Get each other wild and wonderful gifts.  Have fun.  And have a wonderful TreeFinger Day!