Ideas for a White Elephant Gift?
 

My friends and I are getting together this weekend for our Holiday Season dinner, and we're all participating in a White Elephant Gift Exchange. The gift value is $20. I need ideas on what I should give. Here are our demographic statistics.

• We're all in our mid-20s/early-30s.
• We're all of Asian decent, though very Americanized.
• We're a pretty tight group, and can handle one anothers' sarcasms.
• Some cook, others do not.
• Male/Female ratio is approx 50%
• All enjoy the night on out on the town, including movies, eating out, and short travels.
• Live in the LA/OC area.
• About 2/3 of us enjoy playing poker.

Please post your suggestions, serious and gag alike.

Much appreciated,
ABC

Isnt the point of a white elephant gift that you're not concerned with what somebody might want and you may not even spend money on it?

When you say 'White Elephant' this is different than secret santa, right? Normally I think of White Elephant as a gift that no one would ever use or admit to owning, but is amusing to everyone else when it is opened. Like a profane yard gnome, or something like that.

I'm bringing the new Artest CD to the white elephant party party this year.

wow. i must be missing the whole idea of white elephant. thanks for clearing that up.

dola.

That must be why I ended up with an ugly baby blue San Diego Chargers cap last year.

Went to one of these last night. "Best" gift was a set of Carl's Jr. gift certificates, followed closely by the Mr. Potato Head plush toy.

Dude, those rock.

Used.

Dude, thats nasty.

A trip to QS's Dollar store is in order. You can find some really godawful knick knacks for White Elephant type gifts.

Chia Pet

I'm having the same thing here at work next week.

I'm bringing a bottle of liquor!

How come I've never heard of this before? This sounds funny.

How is that bad?

I got someone a can of WD40 once in this. They looked reeeeal happy. :)

Apparently I'm in the minority of folks who've never heard of this sorta thing...ever.

Does sound quite amusing though.

A lump of coal.

Bottle of Thunderbird and circus peanuts.

I once got my bro-in-law a can of DW40 for his birthday, and he was stoked. Said it was the best gift he had ever gotten.

And I don't think he was kidding...

I've decided to gift my copy of Play Poker Like the Pros by Phil Hellmuth

Bought about a year ago, and never opened. Nor do I intend to. I figured, with the way some of my friends play, one of them is sure to benefit from it. :rolleyes:

Mad About You, Season 1

We are doing an anonymous and random gift exchange at our faculty Christmas party. The faculty ratio is about 3 ladies to one guy, and about 3 cool folks to one prude. I am getting a Victoria's Secret $20 gift card for the exchange. I hope a prude guy gets it. So there is one idea.

Be careful about the "gag" gift thing. We do something similar, but the idea is to give NICE gifts that are worth $15-20. We call it Chinese Christmas (no idea why). Maybe that's the difference between it and the White Elephant.

Just be sure the idea is to give crap before you bring a piece of junk that is totally out of place when all the other gifts are nice.

It's not supposed to be bad. We're all drunkards.

There should be a "bad christmas gift" or "prank gift" or whatever dynasty thread :)

SI