Secret santa at work

[Puffins4eva]

Whats the
average price people’s set for secret santa at work please.?
I work in education where colleagues earn high and low wages
I think 10 - 15 pounds is too.much
Am being unreasonable

If you don't want to pay that much and it's what's been agreed, then don't take part.

Fiver is plenty in that scenario

At DP's work it's £7 and has to be from a charity shop.

Edited to add: I don't have secret santa at my work.

We have a £5 charity shop purchase.

£5 is fine.
I don't quite understand the charity shop rule though.

That £5 charity shop thing is a cool idea.

We usually do £10

@UhhhhhhhOK why a charity shop though?

£10 is usually the rate. What can you actually buy with £5 these days anyway tho??

We do £10 from a charity shop

£5, local authority employees. Plenty available for under £5 inc chocs, mini wines, biscuits etc

£5

£10

@hanali
£5....
£2.50 paperback from The Works
£2 tree decoration from many places
= £4.50
or
£3.50 Lego Polybag
99p chocolate Santa from Lidl/Aldi
= £4.49
That's just 2 examples. Obviously it would be person specific !

Small team. £5 was suggested but we all agreed £10 would be better as you can't really get anything for £5.

Ours has been set at £15 this year and a charity donation on top, no consultation just decided by someone and yes I think that’s too much.

We have some German colleagues who introduced the concept of 'schrottwichteln' to the office. Costs nothing, and loads of fun.

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schrottwichteln

I'm guessing it's because buying the secret santa gift also benefits a charity rather than buying from a high street shop.

We do £10

It's a very restricted amount that more than likely many people sat round the table will end up recieving the same gift.

@amusedbush if you live somewhere that the charity shops aren't very good though then you're stuck.
If the idea is to raise money for charity just get everyone to donate to a chosen charity and forget the Secret Santa.

I think £5 is fine. Buying something they don't need for someone you don't really know is a bit daft anyway, but it's a nice token, and makes you think that someone has actually thought about you. I don't see why the token should be more than £5 - people have better ways of spending their hard-earned cash. I love the charity shop idea.

@hanali does that matter if people all receive similar things?

Maybe also because of the challenge - people ending up with a paperback or a mug, or something random rather than the usual chocs.

A tenner is pretty standard, so that sounds ok to me.

We do a ballpark tenner, pre-loved, home made or consumable encouraged - mainly to avoid a load of plastic tat that will never be touched again being bought.