I feel like I've read two dozen threads from gutted MNers who have had no secret Santa turn up after putting a lot of thought into their gift. I've been there, it hurts. Hell it hurts when someone who you've known for years does give you a gift but it's a shitty picked-in-20-seconds-laydee-present toiletry set when you've repeatedly said over the years that you're allergic to everything and anything going.
A few years ago, after the fourth shit present in a row (a Coca Cola flavoured lip balm for a £10 budget 
) I decided to take the £10 I would have spent and spend it on a treat for myself instead. I got some lovely slippers this year from my 'secret Santa' 
who cares pledge to join me in my quest for next year?