Small gifts for work colleagues

[Gemi33]

Hi All

I like to include a small gift with the Christmas card for each of the people in my team (there are 12 of them) - but really struggling to find something this year. Last year I got each of them a Christmas decoration that was personalised with their name. I'm not against a decoration of some kind this year, I think it's quite nice to get something to hang on your tree but just can't find anything so far (decoration or otherwise). It needs to be quite inexpensive as it's only a token really and there are 12 of them - any ideas?

xx

Keyring? Lottery scratchcard in a little bag?

What is your budget per person? (People's views of inexpensive vary so wildly!)

How about Hotel Chocolat mini Xmas cracker or a mini Xmas tree or pointsettia?

as a token non personalised thing to a large group a Candy Cane is my go-to, instantly Xmas but no obligation to keep tat and cheap to buy.

Nice quality tiny notebook and pen
Finger torch
Booze minis
Hot chocolate bomb
Christmas socks
Candied nuts

Candy canes
Puzzle books

tin of fancy hot chocolate each

Nice pen?

Last year Anthropologie did 20% off for Black Friday. I bought these mugs for £8 each for my team, filled them with Lindor balls and wrapped them in cellophane and added a piece of dried orange and a handwritten tag. They all use them every day.

www.anthropologie.com/en-gb/shop/tiled-margot-monogram-mug?inventoryCountry=GB&countryCode=GB&currency=GBP&utm_content=Smart%20-%20Catch%20All&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_source=google&utm_term=&utm_kxconfid=vx65edeg7&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIy8q4m_v28wIVKO_tCh2xbADBEAQYASABEgLBkPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Agree with @RockingMyFiftiesNot need to know the budget per head

Something edible.
Anything else is plastic tat and will be binned.
I personally don’t need another pen or any more decks for my tree.
Please save the planet 🌏

Have you looked at wish strings? There are lots of different Christmas versions on Etsy. For example:

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/612215168/christmas-wish-string-christmas-wish?gbraid=0AAAAADutTMdX0xOyrWWRZOgUG4bSafmk4&gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_uk_en_gb_e-jewelry-bracelets-charm_bracelets&utm_custom1=k_EAIaIQobChMI4fuwi_z28wIVCu_tCh1hBgdYEAQYASABEgKaLvD_BwE_k&utm_content=go_6479444835_76032598685_380838166302_pla-352681496536_m__612215168engb_120501501&utm_custom2=6479444835&gbraid=0AAAAADutTMdX0xOyrWWRZOgUG4bSafmk4&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4fuwi_z28wIVCu_tCh1hBgdYEAQYASABEgKaLvD_BwE

I have a box of mini Molton brown bubble baths ( can’t remember how much I paid but was under £30), I’m going to give them as individual tree presents.

I do this too.

I'm a crafter and over the last few years they have had:
Decorated rolo tubes
Wish bracelets
Lucky pants keyrings
'Chappy' christmas chapsticks
Stocking for tree wit chocs

You can get multipack boxes of hot chocolate stirrers or hot chocolate spoons in different flavours - they work out around £2-3 each. A nice token gift?

Face masks or hair treatment masks

I have a group of friends who I would usually do secret Santa with except one of the group has asked that we don’t this year as they don’t want to spend money on Christmas.
I’ve ordered personalised Christmas cards which I’m planning to put a £1 scratch card into for each of them but you could do it with just a standard Christmas card.

My boss gave us all scratch cards last year. I win £10 so I bought him a box of roses.

I'd go something like a wish bracelet too. They're fairly flat so would fit in a card. Something like this maybe?

etsy.me/2ZI45Bm

Small box of chocolates. Lindor balls are good price on amazon.

I like the idea of buying a multipack of e.g. posh shower gel and splitting them. Molton Brown is lovely and last year their mini shower gels went down to under £20 for a 10 bottle set. Also nice and gender neutral.

Otherwise I would go for consumables - chocolate, wine or spirit miniatures, fudge

There are hot chocolate bombs for £1 50 in Sainsburys. This is my plan for colleagues.

@DockOTheBay

I like the idea of buying a multipack of e.g. posh shower gel and splitting them. Molton Brown is lovely and last year their mini shower gels went down to under £20 for a 10 bottle set. Also nice and gender neutral.

Otherwise I would go for consumables - chocolate, wine or spirit miniatures, fudge

Ooh was this before Christmas? Black Friday? I'm going to look out for these!

I second something edible, a lot of the things mentioned on this thread would end up in the charity shop or bin if I received them. I usually do hotel chocolat for my team. You can get mini ones or slightly bigger ones - the bigger ones have 3 chocs in and I can usually find a discount code. This year they have a box of brownie batons each, they were in the sale a few weeks ago so £3.60 each instead of £7.50 and I’m buying for 25 people.

Thanks so much for all the ideas (apologies for disappearing, yesterday became unexpectedly busy!).

So last year, the bauble cost about £4.50 each - there were also a couple less people in the team then too. Ideally I'd rather not go much above that. Getting a pack of something which you can split is a good idea. When I was thinking about decorations I saw some cute, quirky ones but it works out quite expensive and I haven't found any in a pack that could then be divided out that are really nice!

The wish bracelets are nice but I'm not sure the men in my team would be keen...