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Best Secret Santa gift?

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  • 17-12-2018 6:41pm
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    ginandtonicsky
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    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!!!


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    kneemos
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    Bottle of Hooch.


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    Kimbot
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    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?


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    ginandtonicsky
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    Kimbot wrote: »
    Have you a budget?

    Ten quid!


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    Kimbot
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    ginandtonicsky wrote: »
    Ten quid!

    Lynx set haha


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    kneemos
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    Kimbot wrote: »
    Lynx set haha


    Smell him from the car park.


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    Toots
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    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!


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    the_pen_turner
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    how about a name tag


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    elfy4eva
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    8 euro bottle of wine and a 2 euro gag present from dealz.


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    corner of hells
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    Kimbot wrote: »
    Have you a budget?

    No , a couple of canaries and a parrot.


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    Alf Veedersane
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    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.


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    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. :D


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


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    TheFortField
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    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!!!!


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    Grayson
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    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.


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    Grayson
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    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.


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    Sardonicat
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    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?


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


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    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.


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    biko
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    A red stapler

    latest?cb=20130303073718&path-prefix=protagonist


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    coffee_cake
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    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


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    Woke Hogan
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    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    Saint_Mel
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    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!


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    Zorya
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    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.

    goat-socks-funny-christmas-socks-for-men_580x@2x.jpg?v=1540946460


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    pleasant Co.
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    get something from Tiger. it's great

    I think you mean

    good_to_great_image.jpg


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    Feisar
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    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.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Steve F
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    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Dad's Army box set.

    "You stupid Boy" :D


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

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Feisar
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    A tenner isn't much, bottle of wine?

    First they came for the socialists...



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    w/s/p/c/
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    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


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