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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…