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Work secret Santa

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  • #52
    Rayna Nice Plan
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Rayna Nice Plan


    if it were in ireland i'd suggest a bunch of stuff from flying tiger
    but you aren't
    that's the end of my story


  • #53
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    I hate the whole secret santa thing having received a hugely innappropriate 'gift' last year.
    But doing the idea correctly and for someone you dont know and on a small budget.....cant go wrong with choccies/maybe a book or diary etc.....


  • #54
    368100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭368100


    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    I hate the whole secret santa thing having received a hugely innappropriate 'gift' last year.
    But doing the idea correctly and for someone you dont know and on a small budget.....cant go wrong with choccies/maybe a book or diary etc.....

    I was given a tub of anti dandruff brylcreem one year..I don't have dandruff! I was annoyed/embarrased until I found out who it was....he gave somebody else a bar of imperial leather soap another year. Same fella looked like he had an annual bath and smelled worse....he should have kept theme.


  • #55
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    368100 wrote: »
    I was given a tub of anti dandruff brylcreem one year..I don't have dandruff! I was annoyed/embarrased until I found out who it was....he gave somebody else a bar of imperial leather soap another year. Same fella looked like he had an annual bath and smelled worse....he should have kept theme.

    Mine was more of a sexual/weird nature and it is terrible to be suspicious of all your work colleagues afterwards :/


  • #56
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A DVD player and a DVD boxset of Magnum PI


  • #57
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    bluewolf wrote: »
    if it were in ireland i'd suggest a bunch of stuff from flying tiger
    but you aren't
    that's the end of my story

    I concur.

    On a slight tangent, why did they change the name here to that. Tiger was a cool name for a shop. Flying Tiger sounds like a dodgy sex manual position.


  • #58
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Give lots of toilet paper.
    Mandatory gift exchanges with people you don't know.
    Still less annoying than whip-rounds every week to contribute to some strangers birthday. Write weird intimate messages if you have no idea who they are.


  • #59
    somefeen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    Mine was more of a sexual/weird nature and it is terrible to be suspicious of all your work colleagues afterwards :/

    You have my sympathies. A secret Santa I was involved in a few years ago one of the girls got a vibrator. It would have been funny if someone she knew well or a friend confessed, but no one owned up to it and it got very awkward. The next year another girl got a crotchless lingerie set with a genuinely creepy and filthy note wrapped up in it. Of course no one knew who it was since you got your person out of a draw and kept it secret and then deposited the gift in their pigeonhole so they don't know who its from.

    No more secret Santa after that. It was eventually revived but with a person administrating it so it was on record who got matched up with who.


  • #60
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    €12.99 each. Designist. George’s st.

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  • #61
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Can't you opt out of this secret santa thing?

    No. I already am awkward enough trying to remember names and stiff in the office. Don't want someone not to get a gift.
    david75 wrote: »
    €12.99 each. Designist. George’s st.

    image-2.png

    If I was in Ireland....sure!


  • #62
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Not strictly Secret Santa, but when I was Lourdes ten years ago at Easter, we gave gifts at the end of the pilgrimage to the person whose named we picked. In my case, I picked the name of our group nurse, and I gave her a set of Rosary beads.


  • #63
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Witchie wrote: »
    No. I already am awkward enough trying to remember names and stiff in the office. Don't want someone not to get a gift.



    If I was in Ireland....sure!

    Can you not just say you'd rather not have your name put down for it? I presume it's not optional, they've never done it where I work.


  • #64
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,494 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    Useless box
    https://m.lightinthebox.com/en/neje-mini-useless-fully-assembled-machine-box-toy-black_p2845051.html

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #65
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    ednwireland wrote: »
    Useless box
    https://m.lightinthebox.com/en/neje-mini-useless-fully-assembled-machine-box-toy-black_p2845051.html

    No, as it happens, witchie already has a useless box.


  • #66
    carltonleon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭carltonleon


    Maybe ask a couple of the people you work with, what sort of presents were given last year and that will put you on the right track


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  • #67
    Eire Go Brach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Eire Go Brach


    Couple of bags of King and Tayto. Place will go wild.


  • #68
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    somefeen wrote: »
    You have my sympathies. A secret Santa I was involved in a few years ago one of the girls got a vibrator. It would have been funny if someone she knew well or a friend confessed, but no one owned up to it and it got very awkward. The next year another girl got a crotchless lingerie set with a genuinely creepy and filthy note wrapped up in it. Of course no one knew who it was since you got your person out of a draw and kept it secret and then deposited the gift in their pigeonhole so they don't know who its from.

    No more secret Santa after that. It was eventually revived but with a person administrating it so it was on record who got matched up with who.

    We had that system in place but I received two....one from my secret santa and one was just placed amongst the pile of presents.


  • #69
    august12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭august12


    Witchie wrote:
    Was thinking of a cool mug and a mini hamper of teas and coffees but just not sure.

    I was thinking the exact same thing, a nice mug always goes down well, did this also one year, a mug, a tea bag and a treat, all used


  • #70
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    You could do what my dad did one year, give an empty box and say it's "rocking horse sh1te" - that went down well!!!!


  • #71
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    august12 wrote: »
    I was thinking the exact same thing, a nice mug always goes down well, did this also one year, a mug, a tea bag and a treat, all used

    Have gone down this route....I saw a cool mug the other day that has the wifi symbol on it and it reacts to the hot liquid to light up the signal bars. Also bought a cool tin box of Kit Kats of the world, 3 small bags of different coffees and a box of different tea bags.

    Will have to do. I have too much else to be doing than running around trying to figure it out.


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