Mean Santa

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Does anyone else do this? I started after seeing it on here and teens love it. But have age ranges from 17-86 and running out of ideas to put in.

What do you put in? Meant to be a bit of fun so not expensive things

TIA

What does mean Santa mean?

Yes - I buy 1 thing that each person would definitely like but no-one else would, and then a mixture of random items that are generic ( such as chocolate, batteries), and a few awful things . Things like a particular football team related item are great. There is always a bottle of lynx, and random in jokes. A raw egg is good! Especially if it breaks!

we tend to get stuff from charity shops, as you can find really random stuff. It shoujj look d work well with a mixture of ages as they will covet different things.

you can also get loaded dice which can add further confusion.

I’m guessing it’s the same as “Bad Santa” where you each wrap a gift, draw numbers to open a gift but can steal someone else’s gift instead of opening one? We play this but make sure some of the gifts are a bit left field. We’ve put in Pot Noodles, Fray Bentos pies, packs of crisps, a Christmas Tie, “lucky pants”, highlighter pens, a doormat, all sorts of things that are not necessarily gifts. The Christmas doormat was a big hit.

Brilliant, thank you. Not brave enough for the raw egg as it will be me cleaning it up 🤣 What are loaded dice?

Thanks. It’s similar. We have a sack of presents and you take it in turns to roll a dice. If you get a 6 you take a present. When all presents are done, we set a timer and if you get a 6 you can steal someone’s wrapped present. (3 mins) Then we unwrap and set a timer again and if you get a 6 you can steal again.

We're doing this with our actual extended family Christmas gifts this year, seems like a huge waste of money in generic gifts and in poor spirit as someone will inevitably have gifted the 'dud' gift of the year

We don’t do it with big gifts - just small cheap things like a toothbrush and started the tradition when the kids stopped believing in Santa. It’s just a fun game to play on Xmas Eve. Agree I wouldn’t like it if that’s the only gift.