White elephant gift ideas

[Torrey]

I'll be participating in a white elephant gift exchange in about a month and I'm looking for some cool, unusual, and/or unique gift ideas. $20-30 total cost. This is for a group with average age around 32, still somewhat childish, laid-back and hard to offend.

Any ideas? What kind of stuff have you gotten in the past?

[Breezy]

This sounds really strange but something that went over REALLY well with one I attended YEARS ago was a case of toilet paper cause everybody uses it lol. It got passed around probably 15 times or more. And pretty comical too.

[MarcoFromHouston]

[Shelby Lane]

We had a giant peppermint stick. Like, baseball bat sized. It was one of those great regiftable white elephant gifts.

I usually shop at garage sales for this kind of thing.

[Torrey]

These are great ideas so far. Where would you get a giant peppermint stick? Or the transformers helmet...is that from a toys r us or something?

[Shelby Lane]

I think ours was from the dollar store, actually. I don't know who bought it originally, but it was passed around our group of friends and family for years.

Possibly a little more offensive, depending on your group, but we also had a Braille copy of Playboy that went around for years. No pictures. Just Braille. Because you know people read it for the articles. I picked this one up at a Baptist church college Bible study white elephant party -- no joke.

[Shelby Lane]

Oh, Sea Monkeys. I think you can still get them at Toys R Us. Chia Pets are good, too.

[Shelby Lane]

I bought my brothers Mister Potato Heads for their birthdays this year. One was a Transformer. One was "Darth Tater". Both from Target.

[MarcoFromHouston]

Originally Posted by Torrey

These are great ideas so far. Where would you get a giant peppermint stick? Or the transformers helmet...is that from a toys r us or something?

Hover your cursor over the pic & click.

[johnastovall]

A Premium membership to TPF if they are a non-photo type.

[mivy00]

I got a poor mans laptop one year.

( A peice of cardboard that said poor mans laptop with a pencil attached to the cardboard via a string )

[Torrey]

Originally Posted by mivy00

I got a poor mans laptop one year.

( A peice of cardboard that said poor mans laptop with a pencil attached to the cardboard via a string )

That would be great for a party where you just bring something from your house, hehe.

[CaptainTom]

A self portrait is good. You find out who your real friends are.

[Torrey]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

A self portrait is good. You find out who your real friends are.

Hehe, great idea. I may bring one just for laughs and then throw my real gift in there.

[Titaniumblade]

Originally Posted by CaptainTom

A self portrait is good. You find out who your real friends are.

Now thats I idea, then once everyone is stuck with their gift and the one that ended up with your image hand them a $50.00 visa gift card or something cool like that