Secret Santa what did you get?

FatVonD

I got a lovely black woolly scarf with a frilly edge. I don't own a scarf (I've always been a warm person even before the menopause :rotfl: ) but if I did buy myself a scarf it would have been this one

I got someone I don't know at all to buy for but her colleague who I do know suggested costume jewellery so I got her some earrings from Debenhams which were £20% off so only ended up costing me £4

Buellguy

Not doing it in work, if anyone wants to buy anyone a pressie it has been requested (so not compulsory) to donate a toy to the latest Key 103 appeal so needy kids get a pressie at Christmas. Happy with that and WILL be getting one to hand in

Northern_Princess

We do a secret Santa at work with the max spend £1. The budget was £20 but we decided that it would be more fun to look for a gift for £1 and donate the other £19 each of us would have spent to the local Hospice. I got a lovely pair of washing up gloves with fur on them

lostinrates

Dh has a secret Santa each year at work. The limits are usually a fiver, sometimes a tenner (well paid professionals). I usually get something at tk max for the amount of money so the recipient ends up with something worth more than the budget iyswim.

I always give scratch cards (which I never buy myself) as I think the idea of someone winning a huge amount is fun, but throwing away paper seems less awkward for them than not using the 'x' I spent ages choosing for them. Dh hates to give scratch cards as while I love the idea of someone winning from something I gave dh thinks he would be wild with envy.

Katgrit

I've bought BRILLIANT gifts this year, I know the people who get mine will love them. Which probably also means I'll get something naff.

For our little office our budget was £10 from a charity shop, and I picked out a woman I just don't know or "get". We are poles apart, and I didn't have a clue. Until she mentioned in passing that wanted a cheval mirror for her bedroom. I have searched high and low, and somehow found a gorgeous pine full length one on ebay I won for 99p! So I'll donate £9 to charity to make it up.

For my other secret Santa (hey I'm popular, the general office also asked me to join in theirs!) I pulled out a girl who i really like, have cried on her shoulder many a time, and she's been fab in supporting me this year when I've needed help with department politics. This one had a budget of £10-15, and everyone also got a "condition" as well as a name, out of a different hat. I pulled out "must be Edible", which was easy. There was a "so big it needs two people to carry" so I got off lightly! I bought her a giant sherbet foundation, a bar of personalised chocolate with her name in and spent the rest on loads of retro 10p and 20p items i found in a sweet shop. Candy lipstick, candy watch, drumstick lolly, fizz wizz popping candy, raindow drops, a wham bar. I've packed it all in shiny wine bottle carrier.

Glad i got someone lovely, and glad that the other girl also mentioned about the cheval mirror otherwise I'd be totally stumped for her.

Tiggy10

I love the idea of a condition. narrows down the 'where do i start' issue!

mine was a 5 pound limit. i got a make up bag, not really my style but i can't complain as i have worked at my job only 2 months now. i didn't know who i had so i got a bath set. it might not have been for them either.

we agreed to do one in our close friendship group this year as there is 10 of us. i got a friend who really likes wine. so i bought her a wine glass engraved with her most famous drunken statement!

however one friend said she is sill buying us all individual gifts, which i think is a bit unfair. do you think i should still get her an individual gift or not? despite all agreeing on secret santa to save money?