How would you feel about getting this secret Santa present?

[TwinklyGiraffe]

£10 secret Santa

A pair of thermal socks and a box of chocolates.

What would you think of this?

I got a bubble bath/candle/hand cream set in a a really old lady scent - I'd have much preferred thermal socks and chocs!

Well, mostly I’d be relieved it wasn’t something embarrassing (like a diet book or something). Obviously it’s not exactly exciting, but it’s inoffensive and as someone who is crap at buying presents I’d be the last one to complain.

Relieved to have something half decent instead of the usual crap I get!

Grreat! I'd love it.

I gave a Rituals gift box, large box of chocolates, and a Essie nail polish gift set. I spent about £20, so double the budget.

I got a bottle of roja, a pound shop candle and a Santa hat. I don’t drink.

Each year I get Scrooge buying for me. Next year I’m ordering Christmas tat on eBay from China in September

Notthe Queen it is REALLY bad form to spend over the budget. You deserved a crap gift for flouting the rules and potentially making others look bad.

Much more useful than the hilarious presents some people buy.

Though a jar of naice honey would be good [yum]

I'd be delighted but I walk my dog in walking boots and love a good pair of socks

That came out wrong - I wear the boots and the socks

I really want some thermal socks now, my feet are always cold!

Very happy.

Why spend twice as much as everyone NotTheQueen?

Thermal socks + chocs = happy :)

Secret santa should be fun!...people who spend massively over or under is not really the done thing I reckon!

Sox and chocs... OK. But not brilliantly interesting unless the person is always cold and loves chocs...

But so much better than some of the shit ive seen given in SS. Saw a pair of baggy yfronts to a very cool chap... Some pound highlighters from poundland, candles from such... Which I would never use... Each single gifts for a 10£ SS... (it was all agreed in advance,)

So actually I'd be quite pleased with sox and chocs

The best presents I've had are some really well thought out books (Stephen pinker /Tim Harford... But then I'm a nerd!)

I'd be really pleased with that.

At least it didn't have a a card in it saying"Merry Christmas, Lynne from your Secret Santa!" Lynne was the giver.

I hate the idea that Secret Santa turns into some competitive test of either how imaginative you are or of how well you know your colleagues.

If you knew me well and had £10 to spend you’d buy me a book token but of course no one does that because it’s boring so you end up with some “amusing” tat instead that gets thrown in the bin by New Year.

I’ve always got on very well with my colleagues and am appropriately chatty and social at work but they aren’t my friends. They aren’t going to be able to be that imaginative for £10.

I’d be really happy with that. Years ago someone got me an edible thong for my secret Santa present

Pina Colada flavour according to the box.

Yah did you use it

Secret santa is only a small gift, totally think socks and chocs are nice.

I'd rather those than some gimmicky novelty shite that will be in the bin by New Year.

If you know who you are buying for and can tailor the present accordingly so it's less generic I think that's nicer. A book voucher for a reader, a lipstick or nail varnish in a colour you think the recipient would appreciate, some packets of herb seeds for a gardener or a cook, that sort of thing. But socks and chocolate is fine.

I didn’t Bullet I was quite young at the time and was a little shocked!

I love thermal socks!

Ds would probably get dibs on the chocolate - but it would keep him quiet for a bit.

Win win

Good Thermal socks are 2.99 in B&M so that box of chocolates would need to be worth the remaining seven quid.

I would be happy with this if they were.

If however they were a box of Matchsticks or Maltesers I would feel ripped off.

I'd be pissed off. Boring and joyless gifts. I pitied the person that got my boss for secret Santa as they received a £10 box of rubbish Thornton's chocolates.

I'd be perfectly happy with that.

I'm personally hoping for a book token too, but I very much doubt I'll get one as it would be deemed too boring.