Best Secret Santa gift?

ginandtonicsky · 17-12-2018 6:41pm #1

What's the best Secret Santa gift you ever got / saw someone get?

I'm totally stumped lads. Got the new guy this year who I have yet to have a conversation with. Couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Non-descript 40-something bloke, English, military background. Not a notion.

Help!!!

kneemos · 17-12-2018 6:43pm

Bottle of Hooch.

Kimbot · 17-12-2018 6:43pm

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

What's the best Secret Santa gift you ever got / saw someone get?

I'm totally stumped lads. Got the new guy this year who I have yet to have a conversation with. Couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Non-descript 40-something bloke, English, military background. Not a notion.

Help!!!

Have you a budget?

ginandtonicsky · 17-12-2018 6:44pm

Kimbot wrote: »

Have you a budget?

Ten quid!

Kimbot · 17-12-2018 6:45pm

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

Ten quid!

Lynx set haha

kneemos · 17-12-2018 6:46pm

Kimbot wrote: »

Lynx set haha

Smell him from the car park.

Toots · 17-12-2018 6:49pm

Someone in my office got their secret santa a tax disc holder for her car. It was €3 in the motor factors place across the road. Don't be like that guy!

the_pen_turner · 17-12-2018 6:50pm

how about a name tag

elfy4eva · 17-12-2018 6:51pm

8 euro bottle of wine and a 2 euro gag present from dealz.

corner of hells · 17-12-2018 7:05pm

Kimbot wrote: »

Have you a budget?

No , a couple of canaries and a parrot.

Alf Veedersane · 17-12-2018 7:06pm

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

What's the best Secret Santa gift you ever got / saw someone get?

I'm totally stumped lads. Got the new guy this year who I have yet to have a conversation with. Couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Non-descript 40-something bloke, English, military background. Not a notion.

Help!!!

Dad's Army box set.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 17-12-2018 7:24pm

In my husband’s work, everyone just gets everyone else booze. Or one year, the person my husband picked for secret santa got wind of who was buying for him and just asked hubs for as many packets of Mighty Munch as the spending limit allowed.

ArnoldJRimmer · 17-12-2018 8:06pm

A desk calendar with a word a day, or inspirational quotes. Thats my go-to present for Secret Santa

TheFortField · 17-12-2018 8:21pm

Our budget at work is €15. I bought Andy Lee's book "Fighter" for one of the lads, he is a big boxing fan. If I have to buy for a male colleague I usually take a look at the best selling sport books/sports biographies of the year and I select one. At least if they have it already, they can re-gift it.

A male work colleague once gave me a black lace body stocking as a Secret Santa gift, I thought it was hilarious at the time but in 2018 a guy could end up in HR if did ......so I would advise again it!!!!

Grayson · 17-12-2018 8:29pm

Toots wrote: »

Someone in my office got their secret santa a tax disc holder for her car. It was €3 in the motor factors place across the road. Don't be like that guy!

I know someone that gave a bar of soap. Just regular soap.

Grayson · 17-12-2018 8:30pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

A desk calendar with a word a day, or inspirational quotes. Thats my go-to present for Secret Santa

Joke books are pretty good too. You'll always find something in the humour section.

Sardonicat · 17-12-2018 8:33pm

Grayson wrote: »

Toots wrote: »

Someone in my office got their secret santa a tax disc holder for her car. It was €3 in the motor factors place across the road. Don't be like that guy!

I know someone that gave a bar of soap. Just regular soap.

Was the recipient particularly smelly. More importantly, was it you?

BuboBubo · 17-12-2018 8:36pm

My workplace gave up the secret Santa thing 2 years ago. Tbh, it was just a bottle exchange.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 17-12-2018 9:35pm

BuboBubo wrote: »

My workplace gave up the secret Santa thing 2 years ago. Tbh, it was just a bottle exchange.

Yeah, I just can’t see the point in that. Fair play to your workplace for giving it up. Any workplace I was in, a tentative suggestion by an employee that the whole thing was a bit of a nuisance was met with “Bah humbug” or calling them Scrooges. Plus €15 or €20 mightn’t seem like much but if you’re a junior employee on an entry-level salary or you have a million nieces and nephews to buy for, it can be a burden financially.

biko · 17-12-2018 11:01pm

A red stapler

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17-12-2018 11:02pm

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

What's the best Secret Santa gift you ever got / saw someone get?

I'm totally stumped lads. Got the new guy this year who I have yet to have a conversation with. Couldn't pick him out of a lineup. Non-descript 40-something bloke, English, military background. Not a notion.

Help!!!

get something from Tiger. it's great

Woke Hogan · 17-12-2018 11:19pm

Buy a ceramic potted plant. Too many people resort to cheap, tatty plastic gadgets, a glut of which will eventually lead to the choking of our oceans, the poisoning of our species and the guts falling out of our arses.

18-12-2018 12:52am

A couple of years ago, I gave a battery pack. The ones you can charge your phone or some laptops with. I received "funny" shampoo.

He still uses that battery pack and I saw him with it only last week. I didn't use the stupid shampoo.

Funny presents can go die. There are plenty of practical things you can get got someone that they may not have the drive to go buy by themselves.

Saint_Mel · 18-12-2018 9:37am

I once got a hands free phone cradle thing for the car ..... I didn't have a car and couldn't even drive at the time!

Zorya · 18-12-2018 9:52am

A tenner's not a lot to play with, but no one will be left feeling too bad with a pair of big thick woolly novelty socks that make them feel cool (and warm), zany or at least crack a tiny smile every time they see them sticking out at the end of their trouser legs.

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pleasant Co. · 18-12-2018 9:57am

bluewolf wrote: »

get something from Tiger. it's great

I think you mean

Feisar · 18-12-2018 9:58am

TheFortField wrote: »

Our budget at work is €15. I bought Andy Lee's book "Fighter" for one of the lads, he is a big boxing fan. If I have to buy for a male colleague I usually take a look at the best selling sport books/sports biographies of the year and I select one. At least if they have it already, they can re-gift it.

A male work colleague once gave me a black lace body stocking as a Secret Santa gift, I thought it was hilarious at the time but in 2018 a guy could end up in HR if did ......so I would advise again it!!!!

An ex of mine got nipple clamps with a chain joining them. She was quite upset over it till I stripped to the waist in from of my parents and attached them.

Steve F · 18-12-2018 9:58am

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

Dad's Army box set.

"You stupid Boy"

Feisar · 18-12-2018 9:58am

I got a lovely scarf about ten years ago that I still have.

Feisar · 18-12-2018 10:00am

A tenner isn't much, bottle of wine?

w/s/p/c/ · 18-12-2018 10:12am

My office gave it up this year, everyone buying crap and wasting money. We all donated the tenner instead to charity, it went to Crumlin Children's Hospital

kneemos · 18-12-2018 10:13am

Amazon gift voucher.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 18-12-2018 10:59am

Zorya wrote: »

A tenner's not a lot to play with, but no one will be left feeling too bad with a pair of big thick woolly novelty socks that make them feel cool (and warm), zany or at least crack a tiny smile every time they see them sticking out at the end of their trouser legs.

I actually love receiving socks as presents! I’d be happy with those.

sbsquarepants · 18-12-2018 11:20am

One year I got this board game puzzle thing where you have to manoeuvre cars out of a car park, getting progressively more difficult - it was very addictive! I still have it at home somewhere, must break it out over the Christmas.

The poor fúcker I have this year is getting a bag of chocolate sprouts and some tack I can find in a garage:D

Bah humbug

cherryghost · 18-12-2018 11:33am

'Instant Regret' chili chocolate bar.

mariaalice · 18-12-2018 11:38am

Small practical things, first aid kit for the car, battery charger, or even a nice mug, socks, or a beanie hat there are all useful and not expensive.

A fancy mug or cup with a small box of Butlers or Leonidas chocolates inside is always nice unless they are on a diet allergic to chocolate, don't drink tea or coffee.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 18-12-2018 11:44am

A nice mug is a good present. Any mugs I’ve been given as presents all get used. And as they tend to get broken sometimes, it’s good to have a decent supply of them.

Grayson · 18-12-2018 12:05pm

Sardonicat wrote: »

Was the recipient particularly smelly. More importantly, was it you?

No. She was lovely. And no, it wasn't me.

razorblunt · 18-12-2018 1:05pm

Sorted.

TCM · 18-12-2018 1:07pm

Mourhino being sacked.

Sephiroth_dude · 18-12-2018 2:02pm

Calendar of cats and psn credit.

Hammer89 · 18-12-2018 2:04pm

A one-way flight back to England.

ginandtonicsky · 18-12-2018 2:11pm

Hammer89 wrote: »

A one-way flight back to England.

We both live in England.

Loving the suggestions so far. Don't know the chap so might just go with the safe bet of a vaguely funny mug and maybe some coffee or a bottle of something innocuous.

fancy pigeon · 18-12-2018 2:18pm

Change your 10 quid into Vietnamese Dong and give them a box full of Dong in the smallest denomination available

FTA69 · 18-12-2018 2:31pm

Jesus this is why I could never work in an office; dopey contrived rubbish like Secret Santa; buying crap presents for people you probably don’t even like.

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