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are you doing secret santa?

no secret santa here :) and we tend to just go to the german market to get pissed one lunchtime :)
 
I have admitted to myself that I'm no good with the stress of Secret Santa buying and have declined this year's invite. I have also decided not to attend the Christmas theatre outing our team are going on this year. I know I'll just begrudge spending money on stuff like this and I get so stressed at trying to find a unisex "fun" present.
 
I'm just getting my victim alcohol . Everyone likes getting pissed so it's the easy option . I've also made sure that everyone knows that if I get something which isn't an alcoholic drink I will severly displeased :mad:
 
Am I the only person in the world who likes Secret Santa?

I've only participated twice. Once was at the language/IT/basic skills place I worked at, where, despite being a company of about 200 people, nearly everyone knew each other to an extent and a core of about 30 went to the pub every night. Fridays would see 40 of us out. I'm still friends with several people from there (was out with two of them tonight, in fact). So, when we did Secret Santa, there were no nasty presents, and everyone seemed to enjoy choosing the gifts.

The other time was last year at my first PGCE school. You had to sign up for Secret Santa - it wasn't obligatory - but most people seemed to have signed up. My Secret Santa person was my mentor, who was a lovely person, so it was an opportunity to buy her something really nice (but cheap) without it seeming weird. She never knew who it was from, just that it suited her, and she was pleased.

I did quietly suggest doing a Secret Santa within the dept. at my workplace now; there are ten of us and we all get on well. My HoD is a bit of a cynical bastard (but quite funny), and vetoed it. Ah well.
 
Unfortunately we have been doing Secret Santa at my workplace for over 15 sodding years - I hate it with a passion! However, as the atmosphere at work has been so bad this year (something to do with being in the fourth year of a pay freeze), no one has mentioned Secret Santa yet. So it looks like I might be getting a reprieve this year :D

As for the work do, there isn't any money in the kitty and if anything does happen, we would be expected to pay for it ourselves. Somehow, I don't think there will be many takers for this one...
 
we only get a very small contribution to our christmas do, but I work for a charity, so can't really expect too much.

we've decided our money will go further if we just go to the pub and eat crisps ;)
 
no one has breathed the words Secret Santa yet at my new job and I'm not encouraging it. Last year my boss bought me some hideous mug that made some kind of sound when you picked it up. It was so obvious it was him by the look on his face. I had to pretend I thought it was great because he was such a sweetie and the xmas do was the only one he came to all year. I bought liqueur chocolates. :)

Our christmas do is a "formal" meal and party and we're all staying over at a hotel. I don't have a frock and I'm not wearing heels so it looks like I might not even go :(
 
crustychick said:
no one has breathed the words Secret Santa yet at my new job and I'm not encouraging it. Last year my boss bought me some hideous mug that made some kind of sound when you picked it up. It was so obvious it was him by the look on his face. I had to pretend I thought it was great because he was such a sweetie and the xmas do was the only one he came to all year. I bought liqueur chocolates. :)

Our christmas do is a "formal" meal and party and we're all staying over at a hotel. I don't have a frock and I'm not wearing heels so it looks like I might not even go :(
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Ah we;re having an 'office lunch' which is all well and good but they keep on at me to make an effort. I can't be arsed. I think I will start developing flu-like symptoms a few days before the lunhch.
 
In place of the usual nocturnal alcoholic excesses which I can excuse myself from, my boss has planned some sort of office party with games :eek:

I may well have to invent an excuse and take some of my annual leave ....
 
Not doing Secret Santa at work, but we are having one for our big family Christmas get-together as there'll be loads of people there who won't have bought presents for each other, so in that context is quite a nice idea I think. It's only a fiver. I've got to buy for someone I've never met though, so will inevitably have to give myself away by ringing someone who does know her for tips.

Last year we had secret santa at work and it was bollocks, really. I bought a lovely dark blue scarf for my 'person', which I thought she'd really like but actually she wasn't impressed with; she had randomly picked me out of the hat to buy for and got me smellies from Next, which I took to a charity shop without even opening because I hate chemical smellies and generally only buy that stuff from Lush.

Booze or socks is the safest option IMO.

Fortunately where I work now is very unlikely to engage in secret santa. Also there's no overarching Xmas do because we're a charity and everyone works in teams, so every team gets the afternoon off to have lunch together. I'm going to two lunches; the second one is round the corner from my house, result!
 
Yes, we are having a Secret Santa, and our limit is a fiver. I have no idea what to get for my recipient. Booze and fags is not always possible - there are quite a few non drinkers and non smokers in our lot!

I am not going to the lunch when the gifts are opened, though, so that makes it a bit easier.
 
I have to organise ours, and am trying to figure out how it all works. Putting everyone's name in a hat and everyone pulling one name out is the easy bit. How do you organise the actual presents?

Any guidance welcome :rolleyes:
 
You just tell people the rules - i.e. the limit of what they are allowed to spend, when it needs to be received by, that the presents have to be wrapped and have the name of the receiver but not the purchaser on it. Then, as people put their gift into the sack/box/filing cabinet, make sure that they tick off their name on a list, so you know who is left to hassle at the end of the period.

If you need any other rules about the type of gift, etc., then perhaps your organisation isn't suited to secret santa!
 
Well it's just collecting the presents off people - mainly because I'd like it to be a secret from me as well, but I suppose I could get everyone to put them into a cupboard or something, then I wouldn't see. (:rolleyes: @ self)
 
i love secret santa. one year i got a mug with this stripper man on it who was wearing a black thong. when one poured hot liquid into the mug his thong disappeared to reveal his knob. some offices might not be able to cope with japes like that but we’re all pretty chilled about that kind of thing here – y’know, laid back and cool? :cool: that cup was brilliant.
 
RubyToogood said:
Well it's just collecting the presents off people - mainly because I'd like it to be a secret from me as well, but I suppose I could get everyone to put them into a cupboard or something, then I wouldn't see. (:rolleyes: @ self)
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We have just got a big cardboard box, and are asking people to put their presents in there. We have stuck a list of names on the outside, with a pen, and are asking people to tick when they put a gift in.
 
Complicated as Hell Secret Santa here. All of us to buy some thing for about a fiver. These are put into a box, we're all given a number, a number is pulled out a hat come Christmas. The person with that number then pulls out one of the gifts :confused: :rolleyes: :confused:
 
At my last place, we used to do a secret santa like that, so that you just bought a random gift for the group, rather than for an individual. Much easier to administer, and still fun. I found.

I am struggling as to what on earth I should get for the person whose name I have got, who I hardly know. I know I could just do the random method but he will find out sooner or later, since everyone hassles and hassles until people reveal for whom they bought.

I think I will suggest the random method next year.

Oh, and for clarification, you don't put a number on the gifts - it's just like a lucky dip, really.
 
At the last place I worked someone was given a little bean-bag voodoo doll as her secret santa, and she was convinced that someone had bought it because they hated her/some kind of sick joke.

After the drunken development of an increasingly contrived theory about who had bought the voodoo doll and why, with the recipient getting very upset, it transpired one of the lads had in the office had picked it up from Clinton's Card that lunchtime in a last minute 'crap I haven't bought the secret santa present yet' rush, and meant nothing sinister.

:rolleyes:

there's enough angst at the office christmas party without adding to it. :D
 
I hate buying presents and didn't want to participate in the secret santa until badgered by my boss. I spent a whole 10 minutes looking round a shop and saw some magnetic puzzle things or a Dr Who Sonic Screwdriver torch that I liked.

Then I remembered I wasn't buying for me.

Then I thought - fuck it - and got the magnetic puzzle thing.
 
I just picked my secret santa from a hat. I'm pleased with the result as she's a lovely lady and I think i know what to get her already!
 
I got someone a book on bizzare sex which I picked up in the works for 99p.

He split up with his missus shortly after that, never had the guts to find out if they were related.
 
RubyToogood said:
I have drawn the MD :( Oh dear god...
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Oh dear. There are plenty of possibilities for disaster there.

Bottle of whisky only to find he is a recovering alcoholic or patron of the temperence league.

1001 things to do with a dead cat - only to find he's recently run over his daughters kitten in his jag, and she won't ever speak to him again.

Play safe with chocolate. Unless he's diabetic. :eek:

*Note: I am not sexist etc. I have assumed the MD is a hetorosexual middle-aged white male with a big tummy and a grey suit because by law of averages that is likely to be a safe-ish assumption. *
 
I picked my boss's boss, who came over to Ireland a couple of months ago from the US, and has loudly proclaimed on several occasions that he would immediately return to America if Hillary Clinton were elected President.

Guess who's getting something tacky like an 'I heart Hillary' t-shirt when I go the states this week? :D
 
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