Secret Santa CF's

[BoyzIIMen]

If your group of friends do a Secret Santa, is there always one person who spends the bare minimum rather than the budget you've all agreed in advance?

Every year there is always one awful present and it's happened again this year. The budget is £10 and someone has bought a large bag of crisps!

We always give the option that anyone can withdraw from being part of it if they want, but they never do! None of us are struggling financially!

I'd be interested to hear of other CF Secret Santa presents!

Crisps ?? Oooer

I agree and if it’s as competitively priced as £10 they can buy lots for that.

I have never discussed this with friends - we buy each other gifts and I would say unspoken rule of about £20-30 each.

As we have had kids the same amount for each kids birthday and Christmas too. But I don’t remember ever having an active discussion and it has risen from about £10 over the last 20 years. I broke the rule one year I found my friends son something I thought he would adore and it was above the budget. I was right he did adore it and that is was what mattered. I don’t think my friend thought I was being a dick - I hope she thought I knew her son would love it.

Secret santa seems to be especially fraught though- we put our names on gifts so cheeky fuckery would be easy to see and spot I guess.

I do want to know what type of crisps though 😂

Yep - Secret santa set up for our friend group (never met) we msg everyday, its through Elfster so you make a wish list you buy through Amazon and it gets sent to the persons home address
A £20 budget

Well i received something today that most certainly wasnt on my ‘wishlist’
It was of the value of £20 but such a waste of money as i dont have any use for it at all

Secret Santas where a CF couple put in one present but take out two - leaving another person short 😕

And the CF 2024 award goes to........

what does CF stand for sorry?

Cheeky Fucker

I have never heard of Elfatwe a whole industry around secret Santa now 😂 that’s disappointing for you though I would be a bit peeved.

@Poppins21 Doritos

What’s the point of secret Santa and doing a wish list. Why don’t you all just agree to spend £20 on yourselves?

I know of one twat who decided to wrap up a £5 note in a series of boxes for secret Santa. He of course thought it was hysterically funny.

Budget £10. One year I got a build your own gingerbread house which at the time was £3.99 in aldi

I mean, I love a Dorito, but that's taking the piss.

I think you need to organise it in future so that one person knows who the givers/recipients are, and can have a word (if they still did this knowing they were not anonymous).

Not even fucking crisps!!! Outrageous

I'll see your bag of Doritos, and raise you a set of coasters that had a '£2.99' sticker still on 😂

I was once given a pair of skimpy knickers in size 8. I was not a size 8.. or close..

Stop doing it. Use the money and go for dinner or drinks instead.

My mum and the people in her office did SS. One woman, who was well known for being mean, bought a tiny box of plastic doll's house furniture and tried to pass it off as a collector's item. My mum ended up with it and was not happy. It was years ago, the target was around £5 and the CF must have spent around 50p.

What flavour?

@BoyzIIMen Did they at least provide a dip too OP?

Chilli heatwave.

No dip!

Dh received someone’s self-published children’s book… it was truly awful, so awful it wasn’t even funny

That was just crying out for a bad review!