re: Worst Gift Someone Brought to a "White Elephant" Party?

Yea, rubber gloves for crawfish are weird.

People who are either:

A.) Cheap
B.) Too lazy to bring a halfway decent gift
C.) Tacky bastards who re-gift
D.) All of the Above

we do white elephant but with "good" gifts, whatever that's called, Chinese gift exchange maybe

And I ended up with an lsu TV tray one year. Think I gave it to my dad

This is kind of the inverse of that. I bought a t shirt from dirty coast (that could be exchanged for one a different size) for the white elephant game a couple of years ago. My cousin's 12 year old son wound up with it and threw a hissy fit. I wanted to tell him to stop acting like a brat, but I restrained myself.

At our party I make it very clear that the gift should cost around X dollars and it should be something people actually want. Do not bring anything from your closet or from a previous round of White Elephant where the object was to bring crappy re-gifts. Those games can be tons of fun but with our friends we like to play with nice gifts so everyone gets something nice without having to buy for everyone else. We would just draw names but everyone knows certain people bring crap gifts and certain people are hard to buy for. So far people have been good at following the rules but like I said, you have to make them very clear.

The worst is when someone plays as a couple. Such crap, don't be so fricking cheap.

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I got stuck with the last gift one year, it was a gift bag. I picked it up and it was leaking. I looked inside and it was a pack of two ribeyes. It was leaking blood and beef juice into the bag

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The worst is when someone plays as a couple. Such crap, don't be so fricking cheap.

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We had two couples do this and one of the couples pulled a number for each of themselves so they got two pulls and didn't mention it until after they had went and they basically got to choose which they wanted

I wouldn't mind a TV tray. Brings me back to my childhood.

Coasters.

White elephant parties should be left for groups where you don't know the people very well. We switched from pull names to whit elephant in our family (large family). Buying those gifts was always the hardest thing to do. Plus you'd end up women and men together and some guy would end up with a purse or some shite. We finally just gave up and said were all old enough to forgo presents. We only buy for your god-child or something good special like that.

But the worst was with a group of friends. As a joke someone bought a shake weight and Justin Bieber trading cards. Triggered a whole new game where your white elephant gift must have As Seen On TV on the box. So you went into it knowing you were getting crap, but it was funny.