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Our office had a White Elephant Gift Exchange and I got a Costco Gift Card. Which is totally useful this holiday season. The hot item though--which always seems to be hot-- was Jones Soda. What did you get? What was hot at your office exchange?


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"I totally lucked out!"

 by gigglbx on Dec 21 2007 (26 months ago)
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I got a toothbrush sanitizer...The day before our party, I had spent $50 at Target getting my husband one for one of his Christmas presents...I was so happy to see that toothbrush sanitizer that I talked someone into stealing my present (Christmas Tree Stir-Sticks) so I could steal that one...Immediately after the party I went back to Target so I could get my $50 back and get my husband even more stuff!!!!!

We had a couple of favorite items...Our rule at our company is that you can not buy something as your White Elephant gift, it must be a re-gift or something in the house that you just do not want...
The most popular gift was a pic-nic basket with plates,wine glasses, etc...We actually had 3 of those and EVERYONE  fought for them...The least favorite was picture frames, which there were a lot of those too...

We had about 55 people at our party, it was a blast!!!

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"UGH!!!"

 by GrammyJ on Dec 25 2007 (25 months ago)
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I sure don’t like white elephant gift exchanges that much.    I was creative and found something I had and it wasn’t junk and it was nice. So i wrapped it up creatively too to fake them out.  Anyway...  it always happens.....I bring something unique and nice ....other ppl get my cool gift..... other ppl bring crap......I get their crap!  And I don’t like the stealing gift thing.  I had a nice bottle of wine with two nice glasses and my boss who had a mitten on his package stole it from me cuz he could cuz he had the mitten, which meant you could steal a gift !  Hate that!!    BOOHOOO!!!  This year I got a glass snowman with brownie mix in it....it was all stale looking.... it was probably from two Christmases ago ?? or who knows?!!    I threw it out but kept the glass snowman for Christmas candy display.  Bahh humbug!!   :-))    One year I found this cool actual ceramic "White Elephant"  at a yard sale and everyone wanted it. 
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"I thought White Elephant had a different definition"

 by SharonW on Dec 19 2007 (26 months ago)
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I thought White Elephant meant something that was essentially useless or you didn’t quite know what to do with it.  This year my White Elephant gift was a book called What’s Your Poo Telling You by Josh Richman and Anish Sheth, illustrated (yes, illustrated) by Peter Arkle.

 

This was not something that was high on my wish list.  Nonetheless, I now own my very own copy.  It covers such topics as Monster Poo, Performance Enhancing Poo, Number Three, Soft Serve, Green Goblin, Log Jam, Hanging Chad, Clean Sweep, and other fun topics.  Who knew poo had such variety?

 

The book itself is brown and had this strange smear on the front that I HOPE is some benign substance the publisher added for effect.  I’m just a little bit leery to give it a scrape with my fingernail.  In any event, if I need a regift for some suitable event, I have just the item...

 

Everyone else got boring stuff like gift cards, baskets of toiletries, or specialty coffees and teas.  Lucky me, I got this book!


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"Jones Sodas were so last year....we never did get anyone to try the Brussel Sprout flavor..."

 by OlyPolly on Dec 20 2007 (26 months ago)
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This year I got a cool coin bank that digitally displays the total of the coins that have been dropped in...can't wait to see if it can be flummoxed by Canadian coins ;)

The hot items were alcoholic (as usual) and a 6 shot nerf gun that has been firing all over the office ever since.
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"We have a family gift swapping party"

 by ragrug_lady on Dec 19 2007 (26 months ago)
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The biggest and most funny gift that was passed around was a multi-colored lolly pop made in the shape of a mans body part. The comments were flying as each person passed the pop!
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