Secret Santa gate

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Okay first world problem here, so we have a secret Santa set up at work. Limit is £5 and as I don’t know the person I’ve been selected for very well, I bought them some lovely biscuits (who doesn’t like nice biscuits?) which cost £7, being generous lol. So AFTER I bought the biscuits, I get an email saying they have added a “wish list”. Who on earth makes a wish list for secret Santa?! I click and they have added a specific link to a specific candle they want on Etsy. £6.00. So, I’m not buying it for them, I already paid for the biscuits. Really though its the principle, it feels so presumptuous of them. Plus doesn’t a wish list suck out all the (albeit minimal) joy of secret Santa. Am I being unreasonable? This is someone who never answers my emails by the way!

Oh gawd

£5 gift. What IS the point?

Give biscuits or find a candle for £5 in a shop

No mean feat though

Who cares if Pauline would like a pair of fingerless gloves - she's getting an inflatable santa hat with velcro attachments and she will be getting pelted with fluffy snowballs for the foreseeable!!

Wish lists are great, I don't know why you wouldn't want one, especially for a person you don't know well?

She's put a candle on there. It's a suggestion - find another that's within budget that looks/smells similar.

Without a list you end up getting a nice pack of shortbread which I don't dislike but wouldn't choose to eat. Or a set of cheap nail polishes because 'you always have nice nails' not realising I get gels done for me. Or a box of Roses that I don't like.

None of that is too much of an issue of course. But it is nicer to get something you truly like!

Are you sure she can eat the biscuits? 😄 I avoid food and drink gifts now for people I don't know well as so many people have intolerances, allergies etc

This

I'd quite like a wish list option. I'm tricky to buy for - limited diet (veggie), with an allergy plus I'm tee total. So I dread SS, having to look delighted for receiving a box of Ferraro Roche and a bottle of wine is so embarrassing.

My work doesn't even do a named SS, we're a small team, all women of a similar age, we're just picking a present out of a bag. I hate it but feel bah humbug if I say anything..

Biscuits are such a lazy gift really.

The secret Santa that I've done for years comes with a list like this that we can complete

Allergies?
Favourite/disliked colours?
Sweet or savoury?
Alcohol or no?
Loves
Hates

That at least gives the Santas a bit more confidence that they won't get it horribly wrong..

Actually, I think a wish list is a really good idea. There’s another thread on a workplace Secret Santa going on at the moment and all anyone can think of to buy female colleagues are candles and pot plants. You can find another use for the biscuits.

It's a fiver FFS!

If you can't deal with receiving a secret santa gift that you don't like that cost a fiver you need to have a word with yourself.

And opt out next year.