When I first heard about the trend of “White Elephant” gift exchanges becoming popular alternatives to the traditional dollar-limit Secret Santa system, I was pretty excited. I had never thought about buying my own elephant, but I became immediately attracted to the idea of owning one. And to be guaranteed a rare white elephant?! Can ...
Every year, many offices will hold a gift exchange to coincide with the holiday season. Often, this is in the form of a secret Santa, or the straight giving of gifts to everyone. Why not spruce it up this year by holding a holiday themed white elephant gift exchange. The idea of this is to ...
What is practical but attractive, suits just about everyone, and costs under $25? Every December, hundreds of people ask this same question as they try to find the perfect gift for a White Elephant gift exchange. But even those criteria aren’t enough to make a White Elephant gift perfect! The trading or stealing element of ...
White elephant gift exchange parties are a holiday staple. Some parties specify certain parameters for gifts, but every gift exchange is fun when there are popular gifts that are stolen over and over. It’s hard to predict what will be popular. Often it has at least a little to do with how many drinks everyone ...
The holidays are fun times to throw white elephant parties. If you do not know what a white elephant party is, that is where each attendee brings a wrapped gift and the gifts are then exchanged at the party. The gift is unknown to the others. Only the person that brought the gift knows what ...
A White Elephant Gift gets its name from India. There, elephants were considered sacred animals. If you were given an elephant, it must be treasured and well-kept. A white elephant is obviously a rare thing, so this was a gift that must be highly treasured. But it came at a steep price. Elephants eat an ...
Your office is having its annual White Elephant gift exchange, and you can’t bear the thought of ending up with another pair of Mr. and Mrs. Claus salt and pepper shakers. You weigh the social consequences of bringing an unwanted gift versus just sitting this year out. Don’t despair! This article contains ten creative White ...
Every year on the last workday before our holiday break, our office would have the traditional holiday twosome: a potluck lunch that included everything from my co-worker Kathleen’s tasty Jimmy Dean sausage balls to someone’s corn concoction that I would never touch followed by, of course, a white elephant gift exchange. In our office, the ...
Many office parties require you to bring a “White Elephant Christmas Gift”. What exactly is a “White Elephant Christmas Gift”? It is anything that you have lying around the house, that you are no longer using or no longer need. Often, the more unique and funny the gift the better. Be Creative I have received ...
The term white elephant traditionally comes from the white elephant of East Asia, which is of high maintenance but of no practical use. The white elephant gift exchange has come to mean something around your house that you don’t want, or a gag gift. Anything that is funny, tacky, wacky, kitschy, tasteless or cheap would ...
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