You'll be hearing from the staff at FOOD52 every week in Too Many Cooks, our group column in which we pool our answers to questions about food, cooking, life, and more.

By now, we've seen gift guide after gift guide (we've even built one of our own, but who's counting?). We're certainly not adverse to presents -- we're normal, after all -- but we're growing a bit tired of gifty roundups, all perfect and packaged and full of things. What's the cure for a few week's worth of gifting overdrive?

Animated pictures, of course.

For this week's Too Many Cooks, we'll be running a Holiday GIF Guide. Let's see your holiday best. 

And now, we'll let the fun develop on its own. 

It's crunch time folks, and the time is nigh to prepare yourself for the onslaught of holiday festivities (if you haven't already).