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Old 12-05-2005, 09:39 PM
Aloysius Aloysius is offline
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Default White Elephant Gift - Suggestions?

Our department (like 20 people, 50/50 men and women) is doing a "white elephant" gift exchange with a price limit of around $25. Suggestions?

Note: This is a pretty corporate office. Apparently these are not supposed to be "gag gifts".
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Old 12-05-2005, 09:43 PM
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Hi Al,

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Apparently these are not supposed to be "gag gifts".

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Then this is not a white elephant.

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Costco gift basket. There's a bunch of them that are $25 or under.

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Alternately, get a gag gift anyway. Life's too short.


The ox and lamb kept time,
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Old 12-05-2005, 09:44 PM
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OT - Yeah, I thought the whole point to "white elephant" was that it was a bunch of gaggy / retarded gifts. Apparently, not for my department.

Great suggestion,
-Al
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Old 12-05-2005, 09:52 PM
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lottery tickets
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:20 PM
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Magic 8 ball
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:26 PM
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I thought a white elephant was a big expensive object that is more trouble than it's worth?
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:28 PM
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Need I say pearl necklace??
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Old 12-05-2005, 10:46 PM
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Default Re: White Elephant Gift - Suggestions?

In practice a white elephant is a decorative item that you would just as soon see decorating someone else's house or a gadget that does something you don't need done. I would go for any doo-dad made by Thomas Kinkade (or indeed any sort of figurine or vase) or useless kitchen gadget like a salad spinner. Think of some household item your mother would donate to a church or school rummage sale that someone else would actually buy.
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Old 12-05-2005, 11:25 PM
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My friends did a white elephant thing recently, my girl and I scored:

A Darth Tater


and a pair of Cartman Slippers
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Old 12-06-2005, 12:13 AM
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I am also under the impression that white elephant gift exchanges are gag gifts. You may want to find out before you buy anything I guess. Anytime I have done this, it has always been gag gifts.
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