While this story takes place in the season six holiday time frame, it references a dropped story line from Moroccan Christmas episode in season five. Office Ladies listeners may recall it being discussed.

Here’s a basic summary - For Jim and Pam, finances are tight (sound familiar) due to the house. In effort to not spend money they agree not to buy each other Christmas presents but instead will take items from Dunder Mifflin and give them to each other. Pam takes it to heart and gives Jim, wrapped in plain copier paper, pair of sunglasses made of paper clips and brown plastic from a folder. Jim gives Pam a watch. Pam points out he violated their agreement, buying the watch. He says he bought it years ago but chickened out of giving it to her as it was too much. (I’m skeptical about his excuse).

This story take place a year later.

I began writing this before I got my list of elements so I put a lot of little things in it in anticipation of what I might receive and then when I got almost none of the items I had predicted, I had to figure out a way to add what I did get, too. So, I left them in, as red herrings, so to speak. Then I added a ton more. Kept on adding them right up to the final notes of the story. I think I added so many, you can have a challenge of your own to guess which were the five and which were supplemental.