Spill the beans... on the best ever Secret Santa prezzies

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OK, it's nearly Christmas, and in workplaces around the UK, lotteries are being drawn for Secret Santas. So if you've come up with a corking idea for sub-£5 random gifts from this year or before, SPILL IT. Tell us what puts you in the festive cheer.

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Flibsey

mug hamper. buy a cheap mug, put in a couple of sachets of hot choccie, some mini marshmallows and a bar of chocolate, wrap in celophane and tie with a nice bow or raffia. people gasp, gawp and ask how the hell you got it for less than a fiver. mwahahahahaha.

Cranny44

I had a jack the lad to buy for the other year..... bought him some condoms, headache tablets, alka seltzer...... you get the idea

brittle

The best Secret Santa gift I've ever recieved was a coffee mug with a couple of National lottery scratch cards inside. I won £25!

SugarSpun

I bought a colleague a chalkboard coffee mug plus a tin. I printed 365 facts off, cut them into individual strips and filled the jar with them, and he ended up writing the fact on the mug each day because people would come and ask him what he'd learned that day.

I made the same sort of thing for my parents when they became grandparents only with 52 journal-type questions so they had a very :money: grandparents' book.

pennypinchUK

Whatever you do, don't buy a 'willy' enlarger. That particular joke left the station years ago....

tinkerbellsmum_2

i have brought mine a elastic band gun and a shots game.
my other one has a diary and soap.

i suppose it depends on the person whether can get a funny one.

cathy_j87

I work in a university and had to buy for a friend who works with bats and I found a black tie with wee white bats on it, ebay for £3 He wore it to all the xmas parties!

cathye555

despite this being my 12th xmas do, this is the first year we've ever done secret santa and i've got one of the bosses, and anyone who knows him will understand.... ive got him an eyewatering lads mag for £3.99 and covered all the ahem 'bits' with smiley face stickers that i had anyway, and then a bar of toblerone which i know he loves for £1 from poundland.

anyone else i would of never got this for mind u... and my other boss said it was okay incase anyones a bit worried!!

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nczm

I hit the pound shop and bought 2 packs of pellet guns (£1 each, 2 guns per pack), 2 packets of childrens play food for shopping (£1 tins, £1 boxes) and a face paint set (£1) for one of the guys in my office.

The afternoon was spent with four people in their "war paint" shooting each other and doing target practice - even if I do say so myself if was the best secret santa in the office that year and stupid enough that no one cared when they got broken!

jonesy1976

I mentioned this last week in a thread, years ago I got a 2003 Rugby world cup review DVD from the poundshop.

If you look long enough you'll find something totally out of place in there that looks like it's worth a lot more.