Secret Santa

[sidious618]

There should be an opt out with secret santa if you don't like the person.

 

[thestrangequark]

We don't do Secret Santa at my work. However, Christmas isn't Christmas without stuffed stockings, so, since all the kids have grown up, my family do Secret Santa stockings. Everyone still gets gifts for everyone, but on top of that, we draw names to stuff eachothers' stockings on a $50 budget. It's really fun.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

When it was time to open the gifts, several fought over the "big" gift. They were kids who would rather to stick a fork into their eye (considering they are Deaf) than have a calenader with kittens. I loved every moment of it. Ah well.

LOL, I laughed at this! That'll teach people to judge a package by its wrapping...

I'd take the kitten calendar, though...

 

[pookha]

^ we used to do it in the lounge.

it might be fun to do a misc version.


we do it but it is very volunteer and with a very low cash limit.

we have fun with it.

 

[Goji]

We did this in the dormitory at college my freshman and senior years. I think my floor did it my sophmore year too, but I hated those jackasses, so my roommates and I ignored them. The years I did participate were fun, though both times I was chosen to buy presents for people I did not know at all. That was interesting.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

We do it where I work, but I managed to avoid participating. (I'm annoyed enough at having been pressured into attending the office Christmas party tomorrow night.)

Maybe I should start telling people I'm Jewish. (Enough people at the bridge club I used to play at thought I was... every year I got about 20 people wishing me a happy Hannukah.)

 

[RoJoHen]

Never done it at work, but it's what my family does every year. It used to be just something the adults did. That way everybody was still buying stuff for the kids.

Then the kids (including myself) got older. But since the kids are all still in their early 20s and have little money, it's unfair to ask us/them to buy lots of presents for everyone, so now we all just do Secret Santa. My sister (the youngest and easily most selfish out of all of us) set the limit at $60 this year, which is twice as much as last year. She just wants to make sure she gets enough presents.

That's on my dad's side, who we always spend holidays with. My mom's side also does a Secret Santa, which they have forced upon us against our will. Since we never see that side of the family, my mom just buys all the gifts and sends them in the mail.

 

[Tom Riley]

RoJoHen, who is that in your avatar?

 

[RoJoHen]

John Crichton (played by Ben Browder) from Farscape.

 

[Kestra]

We do it where I work, but I managed to avoid participating. (I'm annoyed enough at having been pressured into attending the office Christmas party tomorrow night.)

Maybe I should start telling people I'm Jewish. (Enough people at the bridge club I used to play at thought I was... every year I got about 20 people wishing me a happy Hannukah.)

Telling people I'm Hindu never got me out of anything. It just made them look at me funny and be like, wait, what, you don't celebrate Christmas?!

 

[ByrdMan]

We don't do Secret Santa at my work. However, Christmas isn't Christmas without stuffed stockings, so, since all the kids have grown up, my family do Secret Santa stockings. Everyone still gets gifts for everyone, but on top of that, we draw names to stuff eachothers' stockings on a $50 budget. It's really fun.

We do stockings at work... No one is required to put anything in, but most everyone does. The company usually puts in gift certificates as a large item, but everyone else puts in small things like homemade cookies, bags of nuts, stuff like that. It's a nice way to do a secret santa-type thing without breaking anyones bank. (It's a small company, only about 10 people)