How would you feel about getting this secret Santa present?

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£10 secret Santa

A pair of thermal socks and a box of chocolates.

What would you think of this?

Sounds entirely reasonable to me (and I would be happy with that as a gift). It would only be dodgy if he knows the recipient doesn't eat chocolate, really. (Though there is the possibility of random bad luck, if he doesn't know the person and it turns out to be the office weightwatching bore who takes the chocolates as a personal insult.)

I've got the company lunch/Secret Santa today. We were given the option of making wish lists and being able to ask each other stuff anonymously: my recipient (who I don't know) says she likes 'anything, chocolates, bath stuff etc' and put a Terrys Chocolate Orange as the only specified thing. So I got her one of those and a set of body lotions - budget was £5.

The person I'm secret santa for announced loudly in the office the other day that she doesn't like the type of chocolates I've bought for her (and are already wrapped and under the tree). The other part of her gift was the more expensive bit though and she's got family to help her out with the chocolates she claims she can't stand (although I've actually seen her eating this brand when we've been given in by clients).

I reiterate to the room in general that I can't use bubble bath on a regular basis throughout the year, but Santa will usually get me some (DS and DH use bubble bath though so it saves me buying any).

Good job it's anonymous.

@Camomila I totally misread your post

Last time I got a man I didn't know well for secret Santa

Could go either way, depending on the man.

Hot hunk who cooks, washes up and provides free foot rubs - yes please.

Lazy sexist Bernard Manning type - back under the tree!

I think its fair enough. I got a bottle of Tesco finest Prosecco which coincidentally was what I got the person who I picked for Secret Santa as well. Its not impossible that we were each others Secret Santa's. It was for a new colleague I've never really spoken too so I had no real idea what to get them.

We mostly got sensible gifts this year than goodness. I thing worse than getting a thong and wondering who the hell bought it with you in mind!

Yep happy with that, I received a secret Santa present of a pint of games, no use whatsoever.

Hmmm, socks fine....chocolates? as long as they are not those cheap shit ones from a land only known to those who think, 'It's the thought that counts' well stuff the thought! Where chocolates are concerned, put more thought into it.

Not secret Santa but DH asked what dd2 might like to "buy" me (she's 2) and that's exactly what I suggested

Last time I got a man I didn't know well for Secret Santa
An unusual idea that could catch on.

Someone where I work got a naked calendar of a co-worker last year. So I'm the scheme of things, I'd be chuffed

I'd be happy with that.

Depending on the chocolate I might regift or eat - would definitely use the socks

It's secret santa - it's just a bit of fun and it's fine!

Thoughtful, generous and poignant gifts are only expected from those closest to us, not coworkers, surely?

@Claryfray - what was the co-worker doing posing in a naked calendar?? The mind boggles.. Was it one of those naked fireman type things?

That'd do me.😄

Our budget was 20 euro and I got a Nivea gift set (one in a washbag) that was (and I'm giving the Secret Santa the benefit of the doubt here) less than 10 euro or came as a "3 for 2" part of the deal.
So thermal socks and chocolates sound lovely

Apologies for confusion. It was a stop smoking CD and body spray !
Again I gave up 11 months ago so obviously the smell is in their own moronic heads.

Fine, honestly.

The person I've bought for has just been telling me about the wonderful tshirt he received a couple of years back - very apt for him it was apparently.

Guess what I've bought him? Already wrapped and deposited in Santa's sack for this afternoon.

FFS.

I always get given utter shit and get quite upset about it as I've been with the company for years, everyone knows me, I actually organise the bloody secret santa and yet everyone gets ncie gifts except me. Last year I got a "grow your own unicorn" that swells up in water and some brussel sprout chocs which I couldn't even look at let alone eat. I also got some Olay cleanser for mature skin (I was 22), I got a penis shaped fried egg mould (went straight in the bin), one year I was completely forgotten as my gifter didn't bother turning up. Grrrr I don't know why I bother!

Choccy I feel your pain. I detest those sorts of gifts, such a waste of money, not funny and so lacking in thought or care. They may as well have given you a card for £1.50 with £8.50 change in it and a message saying 'I really couldn't be bothered to think about what you might like.'

I'd be perfectly happy with that. This year I was given incense, which I can't bear so my mother can have it.

choccy things like that can be really hurtful. The secret Santa gifts I’ve gotten as an adult (up to now?) were actually rather nice. But I used to get really crappy gifts in primary school...

Oh dear I bought the brussel sprout chocs for someone. I thought they were fun and are decent sized solid milk chocolate just with brussel sprout wrappers.

SS is just a bit of fun isn't it? I don't think they can expect thoughtful personal gifts. Although that would be nice.

ILost

Brusselsprouts are some of my favourite vegetables. I might have preferred the sprouts but chocolates like that are fun imo...

Horatio My dh eats brussels all year round- they're his favourite too!
I think that's made me lose sight of the fact that some people think they're foul. Oh well.