On the subject of shite presents, given and received, how about a White Elephant gift exchange after Christmas?

[JacksFirstChristmasMama]

Anyone interested?

Good idea lol.

Ok, maybe I should explain - it's where you take all the crap gifts you were given, and bring them to a gathering (along with lots of booze), and the gifts are all put in a pile, and everyone takes it in turns to pick one until they're all gone. (Sometimes you have to have a drink every time you pick a present.) Then, everyone in turn gets to pick a present from someone else and give them one of their crap ones instead. You can't refuse to give up presents or refuse to take crap ones. You go round like that until everyone's either too blitzed to continue or until a set time has run out.

Someone else's crap may be a great prezzie for someone else!

(hijacking own thread) Hey smallships how are you today? Did you get to go shopping? (And buy crap presents, LOL?)

I'm happy to give my crap away but I'm not having even more foisted on me.
No way!

Yes, that is a drawback... but what if you don't get crap back?

Okay, let's just pretend then. I'll start:

Who's next?

Hey, no i did'nt go shopping, i have turned back into a teenager and am sulking with them all! .

Hmmm... having obviously killed this thread before it ever got going properly, I am going to take myself off to the one-child tearoom to have some bubbly... pooooo.... (at killing thread, not at having bubbly )

Would anyone like to swop a wrongly sized girdle in fetching shit slick tan for anything? Size ginormous possibly hippo

Pair of wireless speakers (nearly new) going free. Cost about £50. Used twice.

How about a buckwheat-filled pillow? Supposed to be great for neck pain.

Not the same buckwheat pillow from another thread? I really must get DH to get me one. Now, who wants the green plastic handbag the MIL gave me?

Of course it's the same... that's why it's a White Elephant gift!!!

OMG - a green plastic handbag??? How hideous!!

Poor DH got a fake England shirt that smelt of B.O. I would offer that but I think it was binned, I should have known to offer it here first

Ahhh, that's better

See, someone (I'm sure) would have loved a fake England shirt. All they needed to do was wash it a few hundred times to get the BO out.

TBH I bought another buckwheat pillow to contribute to this gift exchange - I kept the one that was so rudely rejected and loved it. They are nice, aren't they?

And whilst I don't know of anyone who needs a hippo-sized girdle (except, possibly, a hippo), the wireless speakers may come in handy.
Anyone else? Perhaps we should invite the "we got crap gifts" thread. Bet they have a lot of stuff to get rid of.

I see a buckwheat pillow excess, rather like an EU butter mountain.
They are surely breeding?

Love the idea but maybe take up will be better after xmas?

I have just got rid of the last of last year's presents by taking them to a car boot sale. No one even looked at them, but it gave them some much-needed fresh air after their months in the cupboard and before the trip to the tip,

Rarely have I laughed so much on a Monday morning.

Have just disposed of the weird 'gifts' we won on the tombola at the weekend - not for nothing do we refer to them in Chateau Bocca as Christmas bizarres - by donating them as potential prizes to next week's bizarre. We should be able to keep them in ciruclation until at least 2011, I reckon.

Generally I try to remember the good intention behind presents, particularly from my class, but last year's star present was a bottle of skin cleanser for greasy skins. I'm not sure which is worse - did she just take it from her mum's dressing table, or did she really think it was time I started cleansing my greasy skin?

When did this thing of buying presents for teachers start? I don't remember it being common (or even done at all) when I was at school. Do teachers ever feel that they have enough pot plants, ropey wine and novelty socks?

Don't know what started it, but seems common now.

I would love a nice pot plant or some cooking wine and dh always appreciates chocolates. What I more usually get is rude squeezy pigs, china dogs and photoframes held by kittens.

Subtle revenge on teachers?