To ask for your worst secret Santa gifts (nicked from daily fail)

[tinyme77]

I've always been lucky but it sounds like that is not always the case.

I spent ages this year actually making my secret santa gift and it was gratefully received. I on the other hand must have drawn a bloke who doesn't know me as I got wine.. I'm teetotal

I've had a couple of corkers.

One year I got one of those magic bean growing kits where it's personalised with your name. Except my name is quite unusual so they had bought one which said "they didn't have your name"!
There was no requirement for the SS gift to be personalised so I didn't really understand why they had chosen it!! That went straight in the bin when I got home.

Another year I got a pink nail and lipstick set, which isn't necessary a bad gift in itself, except I'm a bit of a vintage girl, so always had red lipstick and nails (and was on the day the gifts were given out!) I also never wore pink and had said on more than one occasion that I didn't like it as it was too "girly". I'd worked for the company for 4 years at this point and we weren't a big staff team, so everyone there would have known that! The mind boggles!

I gave someone a fold up shopping bag the year the bag tax came in. She looked like I'd shat in it before handing it over.

Due to a mix up I knew who my SS was and he asked me for ideas. I said I'd love it if he went to TK Maxx and got me one of the nice soaps. I got a footcare set. I have to be really careful with creams because I have really sensitive skin so I couldn't use it. I think he just took a present from his wife's "generic women's gifts" cupboard.

I also one got an - admittedly pretty nice - set of notebooks. I had to pretend.I liked it when everyone else was opening wine and chocolates.

Worst one I saw - a young woman got a pencil and sharpener set in the shape of a toilet and plunger. She had not long joined the company and didn't look pleased.

Years ago when I first got together with my dh (then bf) I spent Christmas Day with his family. They did a secret Santa. His sister bought me a shiny blue nylon g string with SEXY in diamanté’s on the back, except the Y had dropped off. That’s not all, she got me a reflexology wand that looked like a small pink vibrator. Everyone else got normal, nice things. It was really cringey opening it in front of my future mil who was incredibly disapproving of us living together before marriage.

Mine was a bottle of Baileys, the size you get on a plane with two chocolates which had gone white stuck to the side of it. The amount agreed was a tenner!.

A revealing top two sizes too big. I suspect my not so secret Santa bought it for herself and gave it to me when she changed her mind. I don’t wear revealing tops but she often does.

I got nipple tassels from one of the office older men (not so secret). The ladies in the office thought it would be funny to buy me an extra secret santa present....fake breast enhancement sweets!!!!

Prosecco. I hate sparkling wine, and was pregnant at the time!

Edible knickers and a bath bomb.

From my department boss. (I was a junior.)

He had delegated the buying to one of his deputies.

£10 budget and I received a watch! Not a very nice watch as you can imagine. My colleague was so disgusted with my cheap bit of plastic she gave me her present (which was lovely btw)

I got generic chocolates. I like chocolate, don't get me wrong, and they did get eaten. However, the whole office knows I love (and am good at) baking - they often benefit from it! I just thought even if I got someone who doesn't "know" me, then surely something baking related would have been easy and no effort?

I got a book on coconuts. I still have absolutely no idea why!

I got a massive toiletries set which looked great, but on further inspection it was really really old, the creams were all separated and the face wipes were so old that the plastic was perished and the wipes were all brown and disgusting

Some pink plastic bead necklaces - like a 3yo would wear.

This year DH got a Chelsea FC mug - he's a Spurs fan

A small sewing kit and a thimble and a little note book with a hideous pattern on it, I didn't join in that one again. I can't sew......such a weird gift for me. A few years back I got a load of dvds that were in wrappers but had been released 10 years ago.......bit of a duff one.

A few years ago my colleague got a vibrator with a punked up Barbie doll strapped to it. Although most of the presents were on the jokey side that was way too WTF and the lad who gave it to her (volunteer) obviously realised he had misjudged it as he didn't come back to work again.

There are some very strange people out there..... I'm loving this thread though.

Secret Santa year 1) Was 'forgotten' or more like he couldn't be arsed
2) Guy was on a late shift 'Coulnd't get owt I didnt finish work until 9pm! (yeh but you didn't start until 1 that day or today...)
3) a box of pound shop hair dye in brown (I had bright red hair and was getting told off for it in a low paid non-customer facing role at the time where I had been for my interview with it the same colour.
Bitter? Moi

I’m a sahm now but years ago one secret Santa gift was so horrific management stepped in, gave the giver their final written warning (he was sacked shortly after too) and banned secret Santa for good.
One of the senior staff was a lovely older lady who happened to have PCOS and was quite hirsute and very sensitive about it. She got wax strips, veet hair removal cream and a vibrating bath duck.

Dh is in a club and they do a deliberately bad secret Santa, the budget is £1 and are instructed to be the worst gift you could ever think of and gifts are given at random. Dh gave a Poundland toilet roll that had the Poundland logo printed on every sheet and received a pen with a rubber poo on the end and poos printed all over it, ds was delighted! He has asd and adores everything poop!

I was given floral scented drawer liners and one matching padded, also scented, coat hanger - the type that are always a bit on the small side.

They weren’t horrific but they so weren’t me, I felt like I’d been given the 1940s for Christmas

Someone I worked with got given an extension lead. We couldn’t work out why.

Three digestive biscuits wrapped in kitchen foil. It was a lucky dip style Secret Santa where everyone put something in, then everyone took turns to take something out. Presumably one person had forgotten, and just put in the biscuits they'd brought to eat at lunch. I was not happy!

The free gift you get when you spend over a certain amount for no 7.

A broken CD holder, you know the plastic folders with sleeves inside. It had obviously been used.