£5 secret Santa ideas

[hedgehogger1]

Following on from the £20 secret Santa thread. What would you be happy to get for a £5 secret Santa. I have a new colleague I've barely spoken to due to COVID restrictions. Would love some ideas, thanks

Is it a woman? Do you know anything about them at all? Could you have a look on fb if you both have it to see what they are interested in?

I would be happy with:
Nice scented bar soap
Special bath bomb or bubble bath
Nice hand moisturiser
A mug
Cosy socks
Nice coffee, or nice coffee syrup
Some chocolate

You could probably get some jammies from primary for about a fiver.

I got my ds a "merry Christmas ya filthy animal" t-shirt on amazon for a fiver.

A back scratcher
Stress ball
Head massager

I think for a fiver Primark is your go to: candle, Reed diffuser, scarf, gloves, maybe jammies.

Or hand soap/hand cream

Bottle of wine

Chocs

Lush bath bomb.
£5 worth of scratch cards.
Candle. I got one from Aldi that was a rip off of Yankee, £3.50 ish.
Mug, with a hot chocolate sachet and mini pack of marshmallows.

A couple of EuroMillions lottery tickets.

Sainsburys did some nice chocolate biscuits in a christmassy tin for £5 a few years back. Absolute life saver for a work secret Santa when I got someone who I hardly knew other than she liked tea and biscuits.

TKMaxx have quite nice soap for under a fiver.
But there is absolutely nothing that I would want from Primark; wouldn't even trouble the charity shop with it.
Three or four nice chocolates in a little box?

Probably best not to call a colleague you barely know a filthy animal!

What I'd welcome: Food and drink, books/music/DVDs, ornamental/novelty items.

What I'm bloody fed up with: Bloody toiletries/smellies gift sets!

I’d prefer a £5 note. Most of the stuff you can get for that price is pretty crap quality or nothing I’d use. The only exception would be a nice bar of soap as mentioned by @Iminaglasscaseofemotion. The only way I’d buy a £5 bottle of wine is if I were in France.

Yes to wine, but obviously need to be fairly sure it's not for a non drinker. Nothing at all wrong with £5 wine. You can get a perfectly drinkable cava or prosecco for that if you catch an offer.

Nice bar of chocolate or tin/box of biscuits (eg M&S, Tonys chocoloney or Hotel Chocolat mini pack) and a scratchcard or lottery ticket.

No to Primark pyjamas, which must be pretty terrible quality for a fiver and plenty of people probably don't wear pyjamas anyway, accessories like scarves etc, novelty clothes, total waste of money, mugs (with or without hot chocolate and marshmallows and most adults probably have more mugs than they know what to do with), toiletries, candles or similar 'household smellies' tat.

A seasalt bag

Thanks all. Yes a woman. It's quite hard to
find things for a fiver. When I started doing £5 secret Santa many years ago you could still get a variety of nice things!

A lottery ticket
Some nice chocolate
Scented candle
Starbucks gift card

Please, please stop suggesting lottery tickets and scratch cards!!! I put a lot of thought into secret santa, and I would be gutted to get something that might be just a few strips of paper, when others got a nice, or even generic gift. It is a pretty shitty gift, and lazy. And given the threads on here each year, I think other people think carefully about SS too......

Sorry to butt in on this thread, but we are doing a £2 secret santa!
I don't know who I'm getting for yet, but ideas from here are 2 scratch cards. Maybe one scratch card and a bag of choc coins!

There's really not a lot you can get for 2quid. Boss says it will test our ingenuity

Does she drink hot drinks? If you have a Costa/Starbucks nearby your workplace maybe a voucher?

A Poinsettia? Usually under a fiver in supermarkets

Use a website where people can list things they want/hobbies/allergies etc so you might actually get what you want.

The other thread is full of buy gloves/I hate gloves, buy hand cream/I hate hand cream, buy candles/I hate candles.

News flash, everyone likes different things!

@Ruth2009

Sorry to butt in on this thread, but we are doing a £2 secret santa! I don't know who I'm getting for yet, but ideas from here are 2 scratch cards. Maybe one scratch card and a bag of choc coins!

There's really not a lot you can get for 2quid. Boss says it will test our ingenuity

Mulled wine spice sachets?

Under!!

Speak for yourself! Actually I'd like a lottery ticket!!

For £2 a scratchcard and some chocolate is perfect.

@Underadesk If your gifts that you put 'a lot of thought' into are anything like all the typical gifts already suggested then most people would be quite 'meh' about them, even if they make the right appreciative noises, because nearly everyone is too polite to be honest when they aren't over the moon with gifts received.

I'd much rather have a scratchcard than an item I don't want and have to be polite about liking before having it clutter up my house before sending it to a charity shop.

I don’t want secret Santa clutter. Charity shops are heaving with the gifts after Christmas.
A lottery ticket or scratch card would be gratefully received.

I ended up going over budget and getting some nice pens. Thanks all :)