Secret Santa

[Gossipmonster]

Hi - please post imaginative/thoughtful gift ideas for under a fiver.

I have 3 to buy for.

TIA :)

It helps if you know something about the person you're buying for.

Last year my boozy friend received a "make your own cocktail" kit. It was homemade by her secret santa with tiny containers of each ingredient and a cheap glass, that went down well.

Our tennis-mad friend got a Macenroe wig that she then had to wear around the office for the rest of the afternoon.

I picked the woman in our office who is childless by choice and who is vocal in her annoyance that her parents spend far more time and effort on her siblings who have children. I have bought her a tamagotchi as it's a bit of an in joke that if she had something to take care of maybe her parents would pay more attention to her.

So what do you know about these people?

Hmm interesting ... I am not sure I can post too much as I think one of them posts here ... I think she may have received shite SS gifts in the past....

A scarf?

A five quid voucher.

My best secret Santa present was some patterned socks and Yankee tarts!

Second best was a selection of chocolate and a Yankee votive candle!

On another thread in Chat someone said the best low cost present they had received was a bag of home-made chocolate chip cookies.

I got bookmarks one year with a slogan about chocolate, which was quite appropriate because I am a chocoholic bookworm :)

I'm doing one tomorrow with a £3 limit and I have bought a box of nice Belgian chocolate biccies in Aldi but they are luffly (and I bet I end up with bubble bath that I am allergic to! DD will appreciate it though )

How about a sweets hamper?

Find a little box/basket, line it with coloured tissue paper and fill it up with penny sweets/chocolate bars/Haribos etc.

Then pop into a florist and ask to buy a bit of cellophane and some ribbon (some may give it for free or some might charge a quid)...and cover the hamper.

You can staple holly/xmas decs to the front of the box.

This ^^ is one of the vry few cheap and creative things I've done, that actually came out looking great