White Elephant Gift Ideas

I thought of this comment yesterday when I saw cocktail napkins at Hallmark that read, “Welcome to Our Home. Please Don’t Fart.”

The point of the only White Elephants I’ve participated in is to find the most horrible/tacky/tasteless gift possible usually scrounged from attic or basement, so I can’t help @deb22, but fun thread. :slight_smile:

Ill look @abasket if they have the banana nut flavor at our Meijer. I’ve been avoiding Meijer like the plague lately and doing most/all of my shopping at Aldi. My H is starting to complain lol!

The cherry granola sounds wonderful. I’m at the point of while a Gag gift is funny it’s just another piece of junk I have to deal with in my house. This year my book club did a white elephant which I have always understood to be something you already own. We usually do a new 20-25 dollar item. We decided we didn’t need anything so would do the white elephant and everyone donate $20 to go to a charity.

Ok…our theme this year is “whimsical”

  1. Gift one is a bunch of things that go with wine...and will include a bottle of Kung Fu Girl. I figure that is whimsical. Funny napkins, a little wooden plaque, wine themed cheese spreaders, a small cutting board.
  2. Gift two is a game called Foodies. This group (except us) is a bunch of foodies...and this is a foodie trivia game. I’m getting scratch off lottery tickets to go with that.

Think that sounds “whimsical”?

Foodies sounds fun!

At our white elephant exchange yesterday, the most popular gift was a set of very large wine glasses that held a whole bottle engraved with “Wine me up”.

They switched it up at my tennis girls party. Instead of playing the stealing game, they played a game where they read a story and passed it one way if she said “and” and the other if she said “the”. After a lot of switching around (and a broken gift in the chaos), I ended up with a camping hammock. It actually doesn’t even look new. Usually this group has good presents. At least the recipient of my gift looked very happy.

We had our event. I now have a 2019 puppy calendar on my desk. Hot sauce sampler set I bought was stolen by someone who was very excited by them. Most popular item was a kit of metallic pieces you could build a small dragon with, stolen a couple of times. I was eyeing a sampler of different kinds of coffee, but the guy who had them really wanted them, so I opened a package and got the calendar instead.

I also won a prize for dressing our stuffed corporate mascot up like the elf on the shelf. :slight_smile:

My bunco group does a white elephant exchange. We mainly scrounge up something from the basement. This year I got a package of napkins, two sizes of paper plates and a bar of soap- all with a cherry theme. They look like they are from the '90’s. I gave a metallic sign that I owned. The best gift was a painting someone did at a painting party at a bridal shower that featured a full frontal naked man. This is the second year that “Jessie” has graced our party. I’m glad I got napkins…