Phil and I have a work party to go to in a week. We have to bring 2 gifts, $25 each, of the "nice" White Elephant type. I'm not very good at coming up with ideas, so I'm appealing to you, dear readers, for help.
What's your best idea for a funny yet useful White Elephant gift?
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A White Elephant gift is hard to do if it's suppose to be NICE AND USEFUL (regular gift) ...and... FUNNY (White Elephant) in the $25 range. Sheesh.
But I'll try...
Battle of the Sexes board game
Mike Mainieri CD "White Elephant"
A nosehair trimmer? Or over the shoulder back hair trimmer (my bil specializes in these kind of gifts)
A Mr Clean car wash kit?
donny osmond cd??
oh my heavens!!! I am horrible at white elephant gifts....and then you have to make it useful???
I think I would google white elephant and hope some website would pull up something that has an elephant on it....that happens to be white
White Elephant gifts I've received in the past:
Harry Potter 7 (now I have two copies)
giant mug filled with packets of hot chocolate
gift bag of pedicure stuff
Gift card to Victoria's Secret
tools
$25 worth of toilet paper. What is more useful than that?
A Bed-Snake Bat.
I like the toilet paper idea. It's WHITE, it's USEFUL, and it would definitely be FUNNY. $25 of tampons may use less wrapping paper, though. Maybe Phil could go pick out a couple of nice pair of ladies pumps?
Okay, I just read the whole front page of your blog and you are a hoot!
As for ideas...mmm...what about a smoothie maker with some of those foil smoothie mixes in it? Electric can opener? Lava lamp? A funky clock? Cheap DVD player (walmart has a few in the price range)?
I have no ideas. I just piped in to say I find the concept of a "nice and useful" white elephant gift a bit oxymoronic.
Good luck!
Amen, compulsive. When Phil told me the restrictions, I said, "What? How do you do a 'nice' white elephant gift?"
And thanks, everyone. Your ideas brought many, many laughs to our house. I think our top choices (at this point, anyway) are the nose hair trimmers and the toilet paper. (I voted for the tampons, but Phil was a bit weirded out by that one.)
Best white elephant gifts I've ever encountered, both at a ward party:
~a glass jar with the candle all burned out of it.
~a bottle of tequila.
A little more $$, but how cute is he?
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8207579
Can of Spam. No-fail white elephant gift. It's not in the 25$ range unless you give a case of 10, though.
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