Anybody have a good idea for a white elephant gift that's likely to make people want to fight over it? So far I'm leaning towards a Hawkeye blanket. Other ideas I've kicked around would be gift cards, lottery tickets, or alcohol.
White elephant gifts
- Thread starter Mountain Man Hawk
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Scratch off Lottery tickets. People will want them then they'll get laughed at when they're worthless.
Few things are worse than the "white elephant" and gag gift exchanges. The last thing I need is more junk laying around the house, or to waste time searching for junk to give to someone. Spend the money on the kids.
I wasn't laughing last year when I put a $5 scratcher in with some other things and they won $500. In fact, deep down inside I was a little pissed off I didn't keep it.
No firm limit. I was probably thinking roughly $50 but I could go higher I guess if I thought it was really worth it for a gift someone would actually use rather than just throw in a junk pile. It's hard to think of many things (other than gift cards or alcohol) for much less than $50 that people would want to receive and not just view as junk.
Those aren't white elephant gifts. I went to an event last year where you were supposed to bring a white elephant gift, and I brought a laser disk movie.
If people are fighting over it, that's proof it isn't a white elephant. The idea is something you can't get rid of that costs more than it's worth to anybody.
Reminds me of a Phil Harris novelty song, "The Thing":
Your are correct. He should have brought an Iowa State blanket. No one wants those except JP.
One year some smartass gave a DVD set of Girls Gone Wild videos at a family gathering. Kind of uncomfortable, yet funny at the same time. Everybody acted like they didn't want it but the BIL sure seemed to get it out to his car for safekeeping once he was 'stuck' with it.
Yeah, I know. CSB
Yeah, I know. CSB
$50 buys a Amazon Fire Tab, but if your family is as miserable as LCs I guess it doesn't fit. Christmas sweaters for that family.
For $50 you can get about 53 pounds of nacho cheese from Sam's Club.
Do you mean an actual 'white elephant gift" or a decent gift for a decent gift exchange where people can trade gifts? Pretty different concept really.
Yeah, my family evidently uses the term differently than some others in this thread but what we do is a gift exchange where all of the presents get put in a pile and you can either unwrap one or steal what someone else has already unwrapped. If there is some other term we should be using I'm all ears. Sometimes people bring a funny gift but if I'm spending the money on it I'd rather bring something somebody might actually want to use.
Yeah, I hate that particular version of the gift swap. The whole "stealing of the gift" thing just screams peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
Ha ha, Jim! I'm stealing the bottle of Jack Daniels and you're stuck with the English Leather gift set! Merry Christmas, buddy!
This might go over a lot like the Girls Gone Wild videos referenced above. Nobody will claim to want it, but somebody will hustle that thing out to their car ASAP. They might take 5 minutes to go to the car as well.
So did you wrap your used scratched copies or buy the two for one deal that was advertised and keep one of them for yourself?
Ha Ha - it wasn't me! But it got me thinking maybe one of you pranksters would be interested in a GGW vhs tape; still in original cellophane wrapper - rare find!!! Pretty sure all the relatives or co-workers would be fighting over that.So did you wrap your used scratched copies or buy the two for one deal that was advertised and keep one of them for yourself?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Girls-gone-...009900?hash=item3f58198fec:g:rAQAAOSwcBhWW8nS
Yeah, we do it in "rounds" in our family. Everyone has three chances to keep or pass gift after they take a peek. A few years back my brother put in a $50 gift certificate to Omaha steaks in a bag...I saw it and held on to it, only to discover at the end the certificate had expired a year earlier. The bastard!
Red Satin bra in like a 48V....
Most offices I've been in have at least one person who could wear this
Yes, I'm totally a Debbie Downer because I would rather put resources into the kids than waste time and money on a stupid adult gift exchange game.
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