There's a reason we still talk about certain gifts twenty years later — and it was never about the price tag. This year we're skipping the algorithm and going back to the kind of gifts people actually remember getting.

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Nobody wrote them down, but every family has them. Here are 18 nostalgic, slightly ridiculous Thanksgiving house rules worth keeping this year.