What do you think of this secret Santa present?

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Budget £10. New job Xmas event, I don’t know recipient - female aged 30-40. I’ve bought 2 for £10.80.

just curious if you got these would you like them?

I'm not keen. I'd rather have a bottle of wine or some chocolates.

I got a tiny packet of seeds once as a secret santa gift, so these would be a huge upgrade and I would be delighted.

You can’t go wrong with a candle most women I know would love a nice smelly candle

I definitely wouldn't go with perfume/candles/anything scented.....according to mn you would possibly kill the recipient as a whiff of artificial fragrance makes people poorly.
I like the glasses @crappycrapcrap (I'm slightly our of your age range at 42 if that makes a difference!)

No I don’t like them and they would go straight to the charity shop.

I wouldn't, that would also go straight to the charity shop!

Nope, straight to the charity shop! £10 voucher for the nearest coffee shop to your workplace? Posh chocolates?

Definitely not candles or scented things. Lots of people allergic. People saying they would like wine or chocolate is irrelevant because many people wouldn’t. You cannot really win with this, there isn’t anything everyone is going to want. So in my view just go with what you bought because the chances of them liking it are the same as anything else.

I really like them.

I like them but then I do have a matching bedside carafe.

20 year old dd has tried to steal it so she likes it too.

They’re a nice shape and (based on my carafe) have a nice thin rim which is my main criteria for glassware.

And this is why Secret Santa is just more of a problem than something to enjoy.

DH has asthma and is highly sensitive to smells. I currently have a candle on I got as part of a very expensive gift set, natural ingredients, defintiely worth more than a £10 Yankee one, while he is away on a business trip and I think he may be able to handle it for 1 hour.

I could easily provide you with plenty of £10 ideas but you would need to know me very well to guess them. These are not likes I share in the office.

Consumalbles are easy even if you don't eat/drink them. As long as they have a decent shelf live you can gift them on, bring them to a party or just open and share in the office.

@crappycrapcrap I would just gift them, it may work, it may not but that will be true for the majority of ideas thrown around in this thread.

I find it so funny how people differ, I think they are gorgeous and would love them and think them a really sweet gift. I love everything homeware in Urban Outfitters/ Anthropologie/ Oliver Bonas and would assume most women would, I know my Mum and sisters would, and I know my work colleagues all love a browse in the ones local to the office so I’d think they would like them too. In-laws however would def be in the Prosecco/chocolate brigade.

Oh yes I have some just like that from Urban Outfitters. I only use them for gin. Love them.

I would rather have a £10 Costa, pret or m&s type gift card to get a coffee or a lunch. Those glasses would go straight in the bin along with fluffy socks.

I think its lovely. I'd be very happy if someone got me those!

I'd hate christmas mugs, wine, chocolates. I do love a scented candle!

The only secret santa i do is with my siblings and their partners, but if I did have to do one with people i didn't know very well, I would do a costa/Starbucks gift card.

When me and a group of friends did SS, we would all share amazon wishlists in a group chat, and even if we didn't get something off that list or buy it from amazon, it would give us an idea of what that person liked - so if it was full of funky mugs, even if we didn't choose the ones on their list, it gave us an idea of the sort of thing they liked.

By "bin" I really hope you mean charity shop or similar.

The actual.bin? What a waste, i mean it might not be your taste but you could regift or put it to the charity shop.

Hideous, sorry.

I would re-gift or give it to charity.

Could you give them with the receipt? Two reasons- they can return them and also to show they didn’t come from a charity shop.
I would be sad to receive them but I’m old. I think for younger person maybe ok

@Coffeeishotand @Needmorelego shock horror I do mean bin. I don’t regift as I would hate a regifted present and there are zero charity shops near me and I wouldn’t make a special trip. Now you can stop clutching your pearls and get on with your day

I am not clutching my pearls, it just seems a waste of course you have charity shops you just can't be bothered, which is fine.

For my DD's work secret santa everyone has to fill in a questionaire of preferences likes and dislikes etc which and you get the questionaire when you pick your recipient . makes it a bit easier.

I like those glasses by the way.

It’s a waste in the first place to buy such horrid glasses, I wouldn’t be given myself an extra task at the weekend to drive ten mins to the nearest charity shop.

I am 32 and although I think they are lovely, they also look like a glass from home bargains for £1.99 so i would feel a bit meh.

What i would like is... socks (fluffy or normal), box of maltesers or matchmakers, bubble bath (cheap but looks a nice bottle). Things like that.

i really like the blind date with a book, I picked one up at a Christmas market and it was a good book! It was wrapped nicely with a hot choc sachet and chocolate bar for £3.

They're OK - I would use them. While I wouldn't be amazed by it as a present, I'd be glad to get something nice enough, and that I could use. I've had a few totally useless Secret Santa gifts in the past.