Favorite Yankee Swap gift - $15 limit

[clh2]

iTunes makes a $15 gift card...could be for the actual winner - or they could easily regift it and check another person off their list.

 

[HeatherFeather]

It is a little over your limit but with a coupon and sale, who knows. DH brought a shake weight to a Dirty Santa party a couple years ago and you should have seen those people fighting over that thing!
If you don't know what a shake weight is, google the commercial and watch it. Hilarious!

 

[mom2d&b]

The item that was stolen the most at our swap was the book Sex for Dummies.

 

[Perditamarie]

We do this every year, and this year I am contributing the book Awkward Family Photos - the photos are quite funny and awkward and I am sure everyone will get a kick out of it. It is $15 at Target but cheaper on amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Awkward-Famil...4196997&sr=1-1&keywords=awkward+family+photos

 

[tina.tina]

I like to get something that will be fought over. Snowmen have been extremely popular at parties I've been to. It seems like lots of people collect them. An LED light up color changing snowman was opened first and owned by virtually everyone at the party one year. I think it's funny how people seem to go after things you never would have thought. I thought the gift I chose was safe one year because it was bath and body products and mostly guys were choosing after me- but some guy took it for his wife. A rechargeable screwdriver and a mini car vacuum were really popular one year.

 

[trinchick]

My husband just announced that his office has decided to do an "As Seen on TV" yankee swap this year. Based on the suggestions above, I looked at the Shake Weight on Amazon and saw that it's on sale for less than $10. Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035440R2?t=slickdeals&tag=slickdeals

 

[maggiew]

Our office is doing something different this year. We drew names out of a hat. Then we have to buy a kids toy that reminds us of the person. We each get to open a gift, but then we will donate the toys to toys for tots.

Maggie

 

[sydneysmom]

Our office is doing something different this year. We drew names out of a hat. Then we have to buy a kids toy that reminds us of the person. We each get to open a gift, but then we will donate the toys to toys for tots.

Maggie

Now that is so awesome !! I love that idea!!!!

 

[mm1971]

Yankee Swap
Dirty Bingo
White Elephant
Dirty Santa

ok, just making a list of all of the names this kind of swap goes by. I know it as White Elephant.

Dirty White Yankee Bingo Elephant Santa Swap!

I'm in. Of course I'm not sure what it means at this point.

 

[mm1971]

My husband just announced that his office has decided to do an "As Seen on TV" yankee swap this year. Based on the suggestions above, I looked at the Shake Weight on Amazon and saw that it's on sale for less than $10. Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035440R2?t=slickdeals&tag=slickdeals

We do a swap and the gifts have to be fun. The Shake Weight got a lot of laughs.

 

[lucky1]

One year someone wrapped a 5x7 picture of themselves....No one traded for it . In the end the picture had powerball tickets in the back.

This was a hot item one year at a party... Someone had wrapped a picture of the host of the party in a goofy pose. It appeared a couple of years. Like the idea of the power ball tickets, hidden behind it.

 

[MHSweb79]

I almost always get the worst number or the worst gift in these things. (BTW- we call them Yankee Swaps).

For our neighborhood party, we did gag gifts for a couple of years. One year I bought a huge package of toilet paper from the warehouse club and wrapped it in a giant box. The person that got it (greedy! going for the biggest box!) wasn't pleased but it ended up getting stolen by the guy who was a pediatrician, of all things. He thought it was great.

The next year I bought a gift bag and put in a can of beans, an air freshener, a box of microwave popcorn, and a "Blazing Saddles" DVD. The woman who got it had never seen the movie! The rest of the people had guessed what was coming after the beans and the air freshener. It got a lot of laughs. Again, I thought it was a good gift because it was funny but still quite usable (like the TP).

The party we have at my sister's house is quite problematic because there is such a diverse group- everything from teenage boys to a 75 year old grandma. What can you get for $15 that appeals to most of them? We don't do booze because there are 4-5 kids still under 21. Gift cards are OK as are lottery scratch tickets, but not a lot of fun. Chocolates and nuts seem to do OK. Not everyone drinks coffee (and mugs are boring) and some of us are allergic to nuts, so those aren't great choices.

I agree that candles just don't seem to go over well, even though I like them. Picture frames are usually traded in, as well.

 

[kelleigh1]

Our Yankee swap is a gag gift theme this year. Does anyone have any ideas ?

Shake Weight. A friend used that a couple years ago for their gag swap. (And now I see several others have mentioned it as well.)



I prefer to do something more than just a gift card, so we've done a nice coffee mug with a $10 Dunkin or Starbucks gift card.

Some great ideas in here too! I'm not a fan of the wine/alcohol since we don't drink and scratch tickets just don't thrill me - although I think I'd like them a lot more if I actually won. LOL

 

[ddlgwar]

Thaks for all the ideas. I was really stuck when we went with a gag gift theme.

 

[figment52]

Thaks for all the ideas. I was really stuck when we went with a gag gift theme.

I would be watching for sales and hope I could find Sheldon's Soft Kitty (must be a Big Bang Theory fan to appreciate)