Guys help me please 😂😂
I need secret Santa gift ideas for work. I only started at my workplace just under a month ago so I don't know anyone very well yet (although they've all been amazingly welcoming and so far seem like awesome people).
We're pooling the gifts then distributing them so gifts have to be generic enough to suit anyone (however it's all women between the age of roughly 20 and 35 in my department if that helps).
Food isn't allowed due to many dietary requirements and I'd prefer not to gift wine as I think alcohol is kind of personal and it's a shit gift to receive if you're a non drinker!
Our company also promotes sustainability so something not like the usual jokey, plastic throw away junk that's funny for 2 minutes.
Also - budget is $20.
Any ideas would be welcome because I'm stumped lmao.
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Dusk has quite large size ceramic Christmas tea light holders in the shape of Santa or a cute reindeer, on sale for $18.
Kmart has some really cool, coloured glass sets.
Home is having a big big sale at the moment and they have really lovely homewares and Christmas serving and baking items.
A $20 Woolworths card
I’ve just had the same thing.
I went to BIGW and bought a reed diffuser for $13, then went to the chemist and bought a ‘Natio’ spa kit that has a scrub and hand cream In it for $18.
Not sure if it’s a great gift, but who doesn’t love hand cream! :)
Manicure kit.
2023 diary.
Sweary affirmations (only if everyone is on board with the f-💣).
Officeworks gift card.
Bunnings gift card.
Photo frame.
I would pick something that everyone uses but they probably wouldn't spend $20 on it. Like a good tea towel, tongs, can opener, pen. Could also go with the things people never knew they needed like a cushion for your car from KMart, I got one of those and it's so much more comfortable I never even knew I was uncomfortable before. So boring I know but I'm a practical person I don't like getting other people creams or anything because I know not everyone can use them. I stick to practical for people I don't know. I even picked up a box of that 'who gives a crap' toilet paper from Aldi and thought this would make a good gift for someone 😂.
I love unwrapping gifts and don't care what they are. My husband has even wrapped toilet sears... twice! Just because he wanted to replace them at the end of the year. And even I would be disappointed with these gifts! They scream no thought.
How can you put thought into a gift for a stranger? I don't like candles, hand creams, smelly things. I hate things that I can't use they just sit and take up space. I'm one of many people like this, I wouldn't care if someone bought me a tea towel for secret Santa, at least I would use it so it would be a hell of a lot better than most other secret Santas I received over the years. What are toilet sears?
This is why secret Santa you usually are given a name and everyone writes down some ideas of their likes and dislikes. Buying a generic pressie and everyone taking one sounds shit - unless the tag gives three describing words/hints type of thing. I’d just put something you like in as everyone will probably swap after they’re opened anyway.
If it were me I would love something pretty. Like a pretty hand towel with a nice soap or some nice handcream. Pretty safe things to get. I have received way too many cups and candles. Some people like a nice biscuit tin full of shortbread, could also pick up a pretty Christmas ornament 🥰
A popular cookbook
I think it would be hard to pick something for everyone. I personally wouldn't like hand creams, candles, cups or tea towels. Once someone got me the book The Barefoot Investor and I was like wtf? I ended up giving it away because it wasn't useful to us and I thought it was a weird gift to give. I would probably just stick with a gift card to a supermarket as everyone needs groceries.
No food
No plastic crap
$20
I hate getting things like
(If I’m really honest)
Bath bombs - sensitive and would bin
Hand cream (any cream) sensitivities
Mugs (they breed)
Books - personal
Cook books
Books on finances
Stick Diffusers - scent sensitive
Perfume - personal
Candles - the scent thing again
The personal gifts are given to you by someone who knows you well. I actually love some of the above when it’s from family or friend who know my preferences, a cook book they know I want or a perfume I wear or a hand cream I use.
I would love
Gift card
Expensive tea towel and glove
Or something for the kitchen you replace
Stationary - next years diary and some pens or similar idea
Only time I’d get a spa or hand cream set is if it was a great brand with no perfumes in it
Keep cup not silicone rubbery lid types
Insulated water bottle
If the work place has a fridge for lunches maybe a cool lunch box from a kitchen place (not supermarket)
I love thoughtful gifts
Usually put myself in the other persons shoes and think how I’d feel on the receiving end
Usually that helps narrow it down