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^^^ argee. Same way with cookie exchanges. Cheap ladies buying cookies and then taking home a bunch of home made ones. We had to atually say, if you don' bake, you aren't invited. First year they thought we were kidding till we kicked them out. They were just being cheap and classless. Go home and eat you oreos.
I think the secret santas where you regift something you got in the past is more fun. Then those gifts end up being regifted the next year etc. The idea is who can get and give the most hideous gift. Everyone is in on the joke so its fun. One gift that has shown up for 20+ year is this klennex contianer someone made out of a plastic webbing and it closes with a golf course tee. Bought at a craft fair. Of course it has yarn on it, a few golf course design things like flag, ball, 19th hole etc. Sew into the webbing. God it is ugly. but funny. Everyone laughs when someone opens it. Sometimes it make an apprarance as a gift at a divorce party. We all paniced when it disapeered for a couple years. Were happy to see it return.
Yes a candy cane is pretty low.
Last edited by foundapeanut; 12-07-2017 at 12:36 AM..
Very rude, selfish & tacky. Some people are very selfish, they only join these gift exchanges to get gifts, & do not want to spend the money or the time on buying an appropriate gift. I hope they are not allowed to participate next year, or else make the rules clear, max spend & also minimum spend.
We have a gift exchange, not work related. It used to say "up to" and now it says "between" two amounts. "up to" $25 could be $3. "Between" has a minimum.
While a candy cane certainly sux.. complaining about it would be petty... complaining about it at work would be dumb...
It appears that ship has sailed.
I realize Secret Santa is something that most people loathe, but my office generally enjoys it and people get each other nice stuff. The limit is 20 bux or so. Today I found my gift at my desk and it was...
a candy cane
a CANDY CANE!
I thought it was one person, who it turned out not being... I was complaining (in a joking way) to a number of other coworkers without realizing the person who was my secret santa was in earshot. Then another person told me that when I was at lunch everyone in my area was talking about upset I was with my gift. Am I being a brat? To be fair, most years my work secret santa gift is the ONLY gift I get because I don't have a family (they are all dead and everyone I work with knows this) and my friends are poor and don't live near me.
I feel bad the person found out that I was complaining and saying what a crappy gift that was. A candy cane. A CANDY CANE! I even went online and looked up this candy cane and they cost 2 dollars. I was offended and even worse I feel bad I complained so much about it, but them i'm like how rude of a gift. Why bother participating (it's not mandatory and it's not even suggested). Over the years I have gotten so many great amazing things that I cherished, but this year i'm just angry about it. Moreso sad I guess.
Anyone else get a crappy secret santa gift this year?
Wait...this was voluntary and you STILL participated ?
Exactly why I no longer participate in these sorts of gift exchanges, I always seemed to put way too much thought into mine whereas my gift was typically a gift card or something similar to your candy cane.
I would put the candy cane into the free pile of candy you said you had initially done. It's a shortcoming of mine, I know, but I would HAVE to let that person know somehow that was a really crappy, thoughtless "gift."
^^^ argee. Same way with cookie exchanges. Cheap ladies buying cookies and then taking home a bunch of home made ones. We had to atually say, if you don' bake, you aren't invited. First year they thought we were kidding till we kicked them out. They were just being cheap and classless. Go home and eat you oreos.
I think the secret santas where you regift something you got in the past is more fun. Then those gifts end up being regifted the next year etc. The idea is who can get and give the most hideous gift. Everyone is in on the joke so its fun. One gift that has shown up for 20+ year is this klennex contianer someone made out of a plastic webbing and it closes with a golf course tee. Bought at a craft fair. Of course it has yarn on it, a few golf course design things like flag, ball, 19th hole etc. Sew into the webbing. God it is ugly. but funny. Everyone laughs when someone opens it. Sometimes it make an apprarance as a gift at a divorce party. We all paniced when it disapeered for a couple years. Were happy to see it return.
Yes a candy cane is pretty low.
My husband and I host an annual gift swap party (almost 20 years now) and we have a lot of "repeat" gifts as well. We LOVE IT when gifts make return visits. We had one disappear for 3-4 years and we were devastated, but then it came back and everyone was SO HAPPY to see it. =) Of course, the newbies who had only been coming a couple years had no idea why everyone was so excited.
This is why a lot of people hate workplace holiday activities. If you don't play the game a certain way someone like the OP will throw a fit about something that is so meaningless that it is ridiculous.
If OPs offending gift giver has been there 6 years, has he done the same thing to others in the past?
I would be secretly offended, but would try not to show it. Putting it into the community candy bin sounds like a good way to show my “appreciation”. Or, better yet, I would also try to rig the drawing next year, so I would get him, and regift him with the candy cane.
If they are buying a $2 gift in a $20 secret santa then I'd be pissed too. Don't participate if you are going to be cheap.
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