6 People Shared The Most WTF Secret Santa Gifts They’ve Ever Received

I know that this makes me a spoilsport, but I can’t stand Secret Santa. As somebody who is great at giving gifts and puts a lot of thought into them, there’s nothing more frustrating than getting a piece of useless tat that was definitely picked up at the last second.

Anyway, I digress. My Scrooge-like tendencies aside, I know that I’m not alone and in fact, there are lots of us that dread this dubious tradition. Save the tat and instead, opt to not set up a meeting that could have been an email as a gift to us tbh.

With this in mind, Reddit user Fine-Tomato-6298 hopefully wasn’t looking for ideas when they asked: “What is the most unforgivable/ridiculous Secret Santa gift you have received?”

After reading it, I’ll take a novelty stress ball any day, tbh.

Kicking things off with an example of the best kind of humour there is, FoodExternal said: “I had been off work with some mental ill-health and fortunately we only did Secret Santa in our small group.

“I received - and was delighted by, as it removed a lot of stigma - a bag of marbles, with a note [saying] ‘In case you ever lose yours again’.”

Love.

Similarly, user Fairyology added: “Broke up with my boyfriend and less than a month later got a ‘grow your own boyfriend’ from secret santa...”

Art.

Then, it got a bit miserable. Ted_Ten_Thousand said: “I worked for a small company that was owned by an actual billionaire. She picked out my name for Secret Santa. She got me a very cheap looking solar powered torch. Yes… a solar powered torch.

“A torch that requires sunlight to work. Even if it was a normal torch, who the fuck buys that for someone as a Secret Santa gift?! Why get me that? Not once did I express a love of wandering around in poorly lit places.”

WELL. Quite. Just give me the money!

Useful_Trick was given a simply baffling gift: “When I was at school I received a secret Santa, it was a smarties tube with two dead Duracell batteries in it…”

Diabolical.

Farla_Broaden received a staggeringly miserable gift: ”£10 Budget - I got a pencil topper :(.”

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know you could buy single pencil toppers. Talk about useless tat...

I_Honestly_Dont_Mind found themselves in a strange Secret Santa situation: “I was supposed to get a Cliff Richard calendar but the person forgot to bring it in with him so I never actually got it.

“I don’t know if I was annoyed or happy that I didn’t receive it. His excuse was he heard that I love Cliff Richard, I don’t. I don’t think I have ever spoke about him in my life.”

My gran would have loved that tbh.