To think that secret santa is shit?

[GetOutOfMYGarden]

Todays secret santa at work had a full house of shiteness.

1. I had the person I've spoken to the least, and who has barely spoken to anyone I asked. I've figured out he drinks a fuckton of tea fortunately. See number 2.
2. The presents are usually shit. Fortunately my secret santa took the easy option and bought me a box of Lindor. They are a minority though
3. Passive aggressive gifts 'Sandra I got you some pens so you can stop stealing mine! teehee!'
4. Home made fucking tea cosy bullshit. Nobody wants the tea cosy you made pal
5. The shite humour involved

Come on, if we must insist on getting a random gift we'll never use can we not at least put our fiver in a pot and buy stuff out of the pot for a raffle or some shite like that? Raffles are 100% better than shitty secret santa

We do Secret Santa - £10max and each year we have a theme. This year it’s scarves, we’ve also had mugs and socks.

We are a small primary school and know each other well so can match the gift to the person. One member of staff coordinators it all and makes sure everyone has a gift.

It’s great!

It’s so unbelievably wasteful - just kids of cheap tat that no one actually wants.

We do xmas baubles in one group I'm in. Lovely! Except this year I got two shit, most probably lead painted xmas wine glasses. 🤔 What's the point if you can't even stick to the instructions

The best secret santa I was in was when I picked my own name out the hat. [Grin]

I got myself a lovely china mug and fancy tea and acted all surprised when I opened it up.

I got nothing in this year’s secret Santa so I’m out next year.

Got a book one year on "how to find a job" when I was long term unemployed due to a very embarrassing health condition.

I once got someone a lovely bottle of wine for secret Santa. I then got it back about 10 mins later as the buyer for me didn't get me anything and they didn't realise that I'd given the bottle to her workmate.

After that I don't join in.

And I don't and never have drink wine.

My workplace do £1 secret Santa. Sounds crap but it's fun. We pull names out of a hat and choose from the pile of presents. As the limit is so low some presents are really random - then after they are all open everyone swaps presents until people get what they want.

DD18 is in 6th form and a few years back she got bag full of sweets shite Halloween leftovers from a girl in her form, her SS got some lovely socks and bubble bath of her.

This year she has the same girl, waiting to see what gift crap she gets this year.

I got a nice Secret Santa present this year. But I've had some shit ones in the past.

What's a Yankee swap? Sounds intriguing....

www.secretsanta.com/action/page?pageId=118

Yankee swap

I won the secret santa trophy in my office and my gift giver was the sales manager with expensive taste so i got a biba scarf tehehehe.

Every year we're envious of who she picks.

I prefer where everything is piled in and everyone gets a random gift. At least you dont have to think..who the hell thought l would like this? I do better out of the random stuff. I like the idea of the themed one.

In my last job it was crap- hand lotion and other tripe that you had to pretend to be grateful for.
When I started this job I was glad to hear that they never do Secret Santa. Or Christmas cards or fuddles. Just nothing it's brilliant

I hate it. Luckily this year we are all buying presents for disadvantaged children instead.

I got gin this year. Very happy!

Fat burning pills is the worst ss gift I've heard this year. (Not to me - we didn't do one) A couple more friends have theirs this week so we'll see if anyone is cuntier than that guy..

oh come on.... surely the whole point of SS is that you don't get over invested in it... some years you luck out and get something wonderful... others you don't.

Crucial seem low price point - £5 where I work... and best one I ever did (and no one knew was me) was couple of very appropriate good-condition second hand books and a bar of quality chocolate.... lots of exclamations that that couldn't have only been £5 ... and of course I couldnt fess up it was me

It's cloying isn't it with an undertone of potential nastiness. I stayed well clear this year as I know one or two colleagues are very hostile and my luck would be that they get me and moan about it behind my back- that's the level of bitchiness. No thanks- I gave my £5 to Battersea dog and cat home.

Every time, a huge amount of money gets spent in offices on utter tat.

This is my issue with it.

The only winners are the retailers.

I don’t even mind spending the $$, but I’d rather do a group charity collection. Or fancy morning tea for the whole office. Just about anything else, really.

loveyouradvice, see, you’re a SS dream. Unfortunately, about 5% of people are that thoughtful.

@colourfulll

See it still depends on the person. Either of those sound nice, but say the person is lactose intolerant/on a diet or T-total? Does husband know them well enough to do a bit of digging. This is why SS only works with people who actually know each other

colourful I don't like hot chocolate so prosecco would be preferable. No idea what popaballs are though.

I did 2 this year - one between friends at our Christmas party, and one with work. Between friends, the budget was £25 and since we all not only know each other, but are friends, it was very personal and we were all extremely happy with the gifts. With work, the budget was £5 and it was ok... whoever got my name knew I was from Canada and not going home for the holidays, so gave me maple syrup and waffles! I knew the woman whose name I pulled and found a book of poetry since she is always reading anything and everything. Some of my colleagues got crap though.

It's much better when you are friends and have a decent budget!