zella
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Post by zella on Dec 12, 2019 22:40:04 GMT
So my daughter and I (she's 28) are going to a party on Saturday. This is the same couple who threw the Halloween party we went to. Wife is a Pea, and an absolute hoot IRL. She and her friends are completely nutty!! Anyway, the invite said it was a Steampunk karoke party, and to bring a Dirty Santa gift if you wanted to participate. DD and I have most of our costumes (a couple of pieces will arrive tomorrow); last night we sat down to find the Dirty Santa gifts. I'd never heard of a Dirty Santa gift exchange before, and had asked my friend what it was, but she hadn't answered. So DD and I just figured it was exactly what it sounded like. After a lot of scrolling through Amazon, we'd settled on a Nature's Dick Picks calendar (here's the URL in case any of you are interested: Calendar) and the Smack a Stress Relief Ball Sack ( Stress Relief). I'm sure many of you will be laughing pretty loud right now. Especially if you live in the south. Luckily, before I hit the purchase button, I said, "You know, why don't I just check that a Dirty Santa gift exchange is indeed what we think it is. First hit I found was Southern Living magazine. It informed me that a Dirty Santa gift exchange was what we called a Yankee Swap the last time I participated(in the SW and Colorado). For anyone not in the know, it's just a game where everyone brings a wrapped gift, numbers are given out, the person who gets #1 picks a wrapped gift. The person who gets #2 can either take a wrapped gift or steal #1's gift. And so on. It apparently has NOTHING to do with the kind of dirty we were thinking of!!!! After a lot of laughing, we purchased a 365 day desk calendar of People of Walmart Walmart, and a cute and funny bathroom guest book Potty Book. Phew! That was a close call!!!!
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AllieC
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Post by AllieC on Dec 12, 2019 22:51:05 GMT
Oh my goodness, I'm glad you googled! That might have been all kinds of awkward.
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Post by librarylady on Dec 12, 2019 23:57:37 GMT
Oh, that is funny.
I am so glad you didn't embarrass yourself---though, who knows, your gift might have been the most popular!
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Post by jenjie on Dec 13, 2019 0:18:30 GMT
😳😂
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grandmalinda
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Post by grandmalinda on Dec 13, 2019 1:04:08 GMT
That is hilarious!!!!
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used2scrap
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Post by used2scrap on Dec 13, 2019 1:07:24 GMT
Bwahaha you could have had the most stolen gifts of the night!! 😂
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Post by KikiPea on Dec 13, 2019 1:11:03 GMT
🤣🤣🤣 Too funny! Glad you figured it out in time!
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zella
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Post by zella on Dec 13, 2019 1:24:28 GMT
Wait 'til I tell my friend; she'll think it's hilarious!
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Post by nlwilkins on Dec 13, 2019 1:32:13 GMT
Have to admit, I did not know what a dirty Santa gift was myself and would have gone with the first gift. Good to know for future reference that I would have been wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 1:37:19 GMT
Oh goodness! Your original gift ideas are hilarious.
I’ll admit this here, about 30 years ago my DH & I were invited to a “Dirty Santa” gift party. It was hosted by a friend from my women’s group at church, but the hostess also included people from work. So it was a large party with lots of people we didn’t know.
When I asked her what type of gift to bring, she said something someone gave you but you don’t like.
Well, DH & I spent time trying to figure out what that meant. He came up with a brand new battery operated nose hair trimmer, still sealed in the package.
So, we went to the party & were silently horrified to discover that the other guests brought gifts like a picture frame, or a flashlight. The woman who ended up with the nose hair trimmer we brought was standing next to me at one point & said “who would bring a nose hair trimmer?” I just said “I can’t imagine!”
Needless to say, DH & I left quickly after that (with no gift) and now I know what type of gift to bring to those crazy parties.
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Post by LisaDV on Dec 13, 2019 1:45:18 GMT
I'm glad you googled it first. TFS, it made me chuckle.
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Post by peasapie on Dec 13, 2019 2:03:08 GMT
Yeah but think about all the fun you had with your daughter, searching out those gifts! I think you should buy them for your daughter anyway...
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Dec 13, 2019 2:08:51 GMT
The woman who ended up with the nose hair trimmer we brought was standing next to me at one point & said “who would bring a nose hair trimmer?” I just said “I can’t imagine!” That's funny!
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ddly
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Post by ddly on Dec 13, 2019 11:30:13 GMT
LOL!
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blue tulip
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Post by blue tulip on Dec 13, 2019 12:40:53 GMT
those would've totally fit in with any dirty santa/white elephant party i've gone to. i wish the calendar was less expensive, we've got a lower limit on ours and it would be perfect!
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schizo319
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Post by schizo319 on Dec 13, 2019 13:00:46 GMT
Whew! You dodged a bullet on that one!
We had a dirty Santa exchange at work about 8 years ago, apparently a fellow in the office also thought like you did (why he thought that would be something we'd participate in at WORK, I will never understand). So, in front of all of my co-workers, I opened a naughty date night kit, complete with a feather tickler and dirty dice set (one with verbs and the other with body parts) and some more stuff I don't remember. Probably the most awkward moment of my LIFE.
A few years later I ended up with toilet paper that had been embroidered with a cartoon of Santa shitting down a chimney - pretty sure that was the last dirty Santa party that I participated in.
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Dec 13, 2019 13:01:50 GMT
That's very, very funny and I would've made the same mistake you did!
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Post by ceepea on Dec 13, 2019 13:04:23 GMT
That was so funny! Good thing you checked!
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Post by jenb72 on Dec 13, 2019 14:38:12 GMT
In my experience you're correct about the basic gist of a Dirty Santa game, but it actually can include the types of items you were about to purchase. It depends entirely on the person running the game and the crowd in attendance. I've played this game many times at Christmas parties and some were clean and some were not. It's one of those "know your audience" type things. Jen
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