Thankfully, there are plenty of creative conversation starters to jazz up holiday socializing, even if you dread small talk more than you fear Aunt Agnes’ Jell-O mold. These 20 prompts will help keep the conversation interesting without treading into unpleasant territory. (For more on that, check out Keeping the peace at the holiday dinner table.) One little reminder: No matter how desperate you are, don’t bring up politics.
20 topics to get you going
When all else fails, bring out the party games: Party games do the work of socializing for you – a blessing for introverts like me. You’ve got your timeless classics – charades, Jenga, Apples to Apples, etc. If your family is as weird and irreverent as mine (which is to say, very weird and irreverent), you might get a kick out of Cards Against Humanity, a party game for horrible people. The goal of the game? To fill in the blanks with the worst, most evil and offensive answers possible. This game made for the best Thanksgiving I’ve ever hosted (although it came at the expense of hearing my dad say some things I’ll never be able to unhear).
