Hi All, not such a gardening question, but I’m sure no one will mind.
I’m organising Secret Santa again at work and need ideas to give other people for gifts.
We will spend between $15-20 and the gift needs to be for either male or female.
Anyone got any more unusal ideas?
Can turn it into gardening and buy nice potted plants.
or
Seeds and propagating kit.
or
Gardening books
or moving away from gardening,
DVD’s (can pick up good movies now for well under $10, so you could make a gift pack of near recent movies).
My thoughts on this as I made sausage rolls…. now cooking.
What about a selection of biscuits from “The Cookie Man”
Chocolates from one of those up market chocolate places.
Or a Christmas basket from Big W, K Mart or Target…. starting to reduce the prices on those….with teas, coffee and yummies in them.
Gift voucher to getting a “G” rated massage…. who wouldn’t be thrilled to get one of those.???
Buy em a chook :-) Several of the charity orgs do gifted things – you buy the chook that goes to a village and hand over a card to your giftee explaining the gift.
A journal book. I got a lovely recipe journal one year. I use it for all the family favs so I don’t have to hunt through a million recipe books all the time.
An i-tunes or similar voucher. Most people have an MP3 player; and if they don’t their kids do.
A cinema voucher.
Oh that’s great suggestions….thanks
Bottles of vino
Natural soaps
Incense with burners/candles
Lottery tickets/scratchies
Reminds me of the movie “bad santa”
Heh heh.
please don’t mind me but i dislike the idea of lots of small presents. most of them end up at the tip, in my opinion. that amount of money (per present) doesn’t buy much these days.
aquarium said:
please don’t mind me but i dislike the idea of lots of small presents. most of them end up at the tip, in my opinion. that amount of money (per present) doesn’t buy much these days.
I do agree with you and that’s why I asked the question. So I could give creative ideas to the workers and hopefully they don’t end up in the rubbish.
There were lots of good gifts last year, but it gets harder to come up with new ones.
I gave last year 2 bed pillows and one of the fella’s got a huge watermelon with Merry Xmas carved into it, which surprised everyone and he was really excited about it.
Lets look at this from another angle……..
What would you like??? Me
A gift voucher from a local green grocer (if they do this)
Pot with some herb seeds and a small bag of potting mix.
Anyone else can add to the list to help out.
I think it’s really hard to do a Secret Santa when you don’t know who the recipient is.
We’re doing it at work for the first time this year, but you do get a recipient to choose for. What makes it hard is we’re only supposed to spend $5.
The lady I pulled out of the hat is a cat person, and also is really into her vegie patch. So depending on the prices at Bunnings, I’m hoping to get her some catnip seeds and/or herb/vegie seeds.
I don’t know what I’d do if it was an unassigned gift though. I guess a food item is the least likely to be thrown away… can be a bit tricky though as so any people have different intolerances/requirements with food.
for a cat person….a cat toy?
a quality water drinking bottle (like Sigg) but they’re around $35.
a ho-mi gardening tool can be had for $25, +p&h
a 20X loupe for spying on those tiny critters in the garden is also around $25 +p&h, http://www.bugsforbugs.com.au/product/hand-lens
gardena hose end or tap end on-hose (with flange and locking mechanism) fittings are around $15 each
a bag of bentonite (wetta lawn and garden) is just under $20
a quality set of incense sticks, around $15
a bottle of pyrethrum or seasol
a nice poster size planting calendar
a fruit basket
…that’s all i can think of for now
Not sure if anyone already said this – but calendars are an OK generic choice for Christmas..
Just thought of it as I am ordering a calendar and stubby holder from Free The Bears for my brother’s birthday in early January :)
small kitchen or entertaining items often make good general gifts. Like decorative snack/dipping bowls (with snack or dipping oils if budget allows.) our office has had a secret santa for at least as long as I have been there and if you know the person you can give some fun gifts as well.
one thing that should stay off this list is a cheap knife set with board. they’re shockingly non-functional, and end up in the bin pronto. besides which, most people already have a knife set…so it’s junk for the sake of a token present.
A coffee/tea plunger would be handy for use in the office…
bon008 said:
A coffee/tea plunger would be handy for use in the office…
someone once bought #1 daughter a coffee/tea warming pad that plugs into the USB port on your computer – stops your coffee going cold.
bluegreen said:
bon008 said:
A coffee/tea plunger would be handy for use in the office…someone once bought #1 daughter a coffee/tea warming pad that plugs into the USB port on your computer – stops your coffee going cold.
That’s a good one, never even heard of such a thing.
bluegreen said:
bon008 said:
A coffee/tea plunger would be handy for use in the office…someone once bought #1 daughter a coffee/tea warming pad that plugs into the USB port on your computer – stops your coffee going cold.
That’s a good one – I know a few guys at work who could do with one of those.
bon008 said:
I think it’s really hard to do a Secret Santa when you don’t know who the recipient is.We’re doing it at work for the first time this year, but you do get a recipient to choose for. What makes it hard is we’re only supposed to spend $5.
The lady I pulled out of the hat is a cat person, and also is really into her vegie patch. So depending on the prices at Bunnings, I’m hoping to get her some catnip seeds and/or herb/vegie seeds.
I don’t know what I’d do if it was an unassigned gift though. I guess a food item is the least likely to be thrown away… can be a bit tricky though as so any people have different intolerances/requirements with food.
I got a cat person a couple years ago and got her a picture frame that had ‘My Cat’on the side of it.
But I’m pretty sure it cost a bit more than $5.
Muschee said:
bluegreen said:
bon008 said:
A coffee/tea plunger would be handy for use in the office…someone once bought #1 daughter a coffee/tea warming pad that plugs into the USB port on your computer – stops your coffee going cold.
That’s a good one, never even heard of such a thing.
there are lots of little USB powered do-dads you can buy.
bluegreen said:
Muschee said:
bluegreen said:
bon008 said:
A coffee/tea plunger would be handy for use in the office…someone once bought #1 daughter a coffee/tea warming pad that plugs into the USB port on your computer – stops your coffee going cold.
That’s a good one, never even heard of such a thing.
there are lots of little USB powered do-dads you can buy.
would be nice if they were actually useful, instead of being mostly (not always) of amusement value.