I love them, getting and writing, but there's a whole school of thought that treats killed Yuletide, people shit out coal to get their assignment out of the way so they can pick and choose treats to write (which is easier, let's face it, than writing a random assignment) and that the treat-culture pushes people toward quantity instead of quality.

I think the shortish list of treaters last year disproves the latter idea. It's a pretty small percentage of the whole.