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Shite secret Santa presents you received

39 replies

AtSea1979 · 19/12/2019 21:48

Today I got a crappy pair of fluffy socks. Budget was supposed to be a tenner but these are clearly much less and molting all over the place and would never fit me. I worked out who got them and I already know she dislikes me. She clearly did it on purpose.

Tell me what crap you have received —so I can feel better— !

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KatoPotato · 19/12/2019 21:50

Clearly a charity shop find with three random tea lights from a multipack!

Thankfully I'm laughing but deffo not the budget or effort I put in!

Shite secret Santa presents you received
HarryDaylight · 19/12/2019 21:52

A jar of cranberry sauce.

Frustratedfrenchie · 19/12/2019 21:55

A pair of tights. And not even something I could use. They were purple and only just fit my ten year old DD Hmm

Gonewiththemadness · 19/12/2019 21:58

A vibrator 😂

PennyGold · 19/12/2019 22:02

A bus magazine...

PoohBearsHole · 19/12/2019 22:05

I gave something just below £10 budget, consumable but not technically alcoholic. Receiver VERY unimpressed so wish I hadn’t bothered!

LiviaSoprano · 19/12/2019 22:06

Vagazzle kit. Work secret Santa at a university.

DameofGnomes · 19/12/2019 22:07

Reminds me of the tins of beans offered for church harvest festivals. Disappointing meanness.

FawnDrench · 19/12/2019 22:19

2 bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale and a hair slide.

I only ever drink draught lager, and have short, cropped hair.

littlebillie · 19/12/2019 22:49

I've had the tea lights

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 19/12/2019 22:52

Not this year, but a couple of years ago. A test tube of fake snow and a box of 4 Milk Tray. I'm allergic to chocolate.

bestsquirrelinthewholehole · 20/12/2019 08:18

One year I got a basket of mixed flannels, black, gray and white. I was a bit 🤔

tiddlydink · 20/12/2019 08:20

A shampoo kit for greasy hair. I wouldn't have minded but I had a hormonal issue at the time I was very sensitive about.

Raver84 · 20/12/2019 08:38

Every one I've ever received has been utter shite, lots of scented candles, boxes of chocolates. A keyring. All useless tat.

TheNinkiestNonk · 20/12/2019 09:02

That's why I stopped doing it! Was sick of spending time picking out a lovely present only to get tat back.
Would rather spend on myself!

SallyWD · 20/12/2019 09:04

I got some furry handcuffs once. Opened in front of all my colleagues. Never used them!

Gonewiththemadness · 20/12/2019 09:22

Well I was pretty pleased with mine! Xmas Grin😂 think it was supposed to be a gag gift for the lesbian!

NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1 · 20/12/2019 09:48

I got a cath kidson handcream which was clearly recycled, charity shop brought, or an unwanted gift that had been left in the cupboard a few years.

Its certainly not on this years cath kidson website.

Tight arsed fucking git Grin

Stravapalava · 20/12/2019 09:52

A clearly re-gifted smellies set. When I'd specified no smellies because I'm allergic to a lot of them. At least the set included fluffy socks that I make use of.

Another was a box of chocolates. Not so bad in itself, but I was just annoyed that the person clearly didn't know me, but didn't make any effort to find out what I liked or was into. One thing would have been particularly obvious without having to find out. It was clearly a last minute panic buy.

HouseworkAvoider10 · 20/12/2019 10:03

Plasticky looking chocolates.
Because a few people including myself weren't going to the xmas party, we had to unwrap our gifts in front of everyone else in the office on the day of the party.
I didn't open the box of chocolates at all and returned them to boots who were happy to swap them for a lovely body wash instead.

Honestly I have had gift from 'friends' that were far more hurtful than any Secret Sandra.

Princesspickle777 · 20/12/2019 10:09

A rusty costume jewellery type necklace that had no labels and was most definitely something they’d found in there jewellery box. That was it, it balled up in tissue paper and sellotape. Not even an attempt to make it look new. I was annoyed as I’d spend the suggested amount of £15! Never again!.

RhythimIsRhythim · 20/12/2019 10:10

Some chocolate truffles that had been melted together in the box. Like you @AtSea1979 I knew who it was and that it was deliberate.

The Xmas Party was my second last day there as I had another job.

She was bullying one of her direct reports, trying to line things up so he could be sacked, and I may have mentioned some of the things I’d seen in my exit interview with HR the next day. And also given the direct report my mobile and email address and told him if she caused him any trouble I was quite happy to come back as a witness for him in any tribunal etc.

VaguelySensible · 20/12/2019 10:18

A simple plastic food storage tub with the price sticker still on. A perfectly good plastic tub - but a weird gift. Every year one person in our Secret Santa gets something of equal weirdness. Usually something very ordinary, often second hand. We're pretty sure who the giver is, and it's not in any way nastiness. She's just...odd.

DarklyDreamingDexter · 20/12/2019 10:36

Nothing. I wasn’t in the office the day the Secret Santa gifts were handed out (a couple of years ago) so they gave my gift to a woman from another office who happened to be visiting that day and hadn’t even taken part in the Secret Santa, so she didn’t feel left out. Gee, thanks!

tiddlydink · 20/12/2019 10:38

I'll always remember helping one colleague out with another's Secret Santa. They had just bought a house so I suggested something nice for their kitchen. The gift give gave them kitchen utensils... from their own kitchen... with food crud left on them. Hmm