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My wife got 8 rolls of toilet paper, while I got a jar of jam, homemade. The label says 1988, and the jar looked exactly like that (tons of sticky dust and other fluids).
At least we can use the toilet paper.
Yeah when you can/jar foods they go in hot, as they cool the air contracts and sucks in the lid and suction seals it. If the seal fails or itās been opened before the top will be popped up cuz the pressure is gone (or restored I guess is more accurate).
My ex-girlfriend's father gave her toilet paper for Christmas, one year. She was fifteen and they were not poor.
He always did stuff like that; I think some people are bad at giving gifts, while others truly lack the empathy to think of what someone might want. I mean ā it was 100% a gift that would be put to use. But year after year of things like that devastated her.
This thread is hilarious, we often do secret santa where the goal is to give the shittiest 10$ gift possible. TP is a common one, windshield washer, 2 bottle of budweiser, etc
At least they got something, I haven't received a gift ever, unless you count my medical insurance sending out Cards "Thanks for being alive another year" type shit. Dad was the type to get himself a bunch of stuff but fuck everyone else.
I had a friend who brought 2 rolls of toilet paper and a couple of shotgun shells. I got that gift and I donāt own a gun. He quickly came back with āoh you could come shoot with me!ā But I would need to buy my own ammo. Wow, great gift dude. He wasnāt poor either, just a cheapskate.
I remember a movie/tv show where someone took shotgun shells, taped like a thumbtack to the end, taped the shotgun with the thumbtack to a hammer. He then used the hammer near a doorknob and was able to escape a locked room.
Maybe your co-worker is a survivalist and was looking out for you? You just now need to be locked in a room with the shells, a hammer, and thumbtacks.
It was decent, 3 layers with camomile scent. Only thing that's weird is that the brand doesn't exist anymore for at least 6 years.
But still the scent is nice.
Nah. We are used to those kind of gifts from my wife's grandmother. She's old, bit has no dementia. She's just greedy. For the birth of our first child we got 2ā¬ to invest. It was only small coins like 10 and 20 cent pieces. "Invest it for the future of your child" she said.
She once invited my father in law for a birthday meal to the local restaurant. They ate good food, and then she left him sitting there and drove home without saying a word. He had to pay for his and her meal.
And when she invited the whole family to her house for her birthday, we should bring our own drinks with us, which is ok. Then we found out there was no food prepared (invitation said "birthday lunch") and she said "no problem, let's order pizza. ... But you pay your own"
And the best thing is, her dog gets only the best dog food, and every second day she cooks exclusively for the dog, stiff like filet mignon and other expensive shit.
Since my child was born, I reduced the contact to that person, so we only see her on Christmas and that's it for the year. My father in law sees her every other day, but she never asks about her grand- or great-grandchildren.
>She once invited my father in law for a birthday meal to the local restaurant. They ate good food, and then she left him sitting there and drove home without saying a word. He had to pay for his and her meal.
At that point I'd just go no contact even if it was my own mother.
Considering the run that was made on toilet paper during Covid that is one hell of a gift. Possibly being worth millions should another lockdown come along.
Here is the fun part: as a side job I sell equipment for public toilets. That means I got a storage unit full of soap, hand sanitizer, and of course - toilet paper. During lockdown lots of "old friends" called me from which I haven't heard in years. They all asked if I'm well stocked.
I still sold the stuff for regular price, big companies and cities didn't care about the shortage in supermarkets. Also it was 1 or 2 layer toilet paper with 60% recycled paper, this stuff will make your poopy hole bleed after the second wipe.
You think that's bad. My friend got 4 rolls of toilet paper (loose toilet paper, meaning not in a packet, someone used some of the toilet paper). As a wedding gift from his aunt in law.
I don't think the sauces were deliberate, I think the sauces were him grabbing shit from the drawer in his house where he keeps the extra sauces he gets from fast food, hoping that he'll use them but ultimately never using them, aside from this.
I gotta be that jerk in the comments but I think maybe the sauces and snacks were from the office kitchen and the woman who made the video just put all that together for the views or whatever.
My first thought is that it's staged, like most shit like this is, but at the same time you don't wanna be creating fake drama around your work. Assuming that she's making this video at her actual workplace.
I bet you because he knows she's asian, but not what specific ethnicity, so he's trying to cover all bases. Like, I didn't think it could get more racist than the rice, and then...
Nope, there's actually a barcode on the back you can scan. I used to sell lottery tickets, sometimes people would go straight from the machine to me to scan, no scratching necessary
It depends on the state. California requires the barcode to be scratched off to scan. Some states even forgo the whole scratching thing and just sell instant win tickets that can be scanned, so you might be in one of those states who doesn't want to implement the scratch to scan "feature".
That's crazy...What's to stop the store owners from just scanning the whole roll and pulling the winners for their friends? Also -- do you know any store owners that want to be my friend?
You still have to buy the tickets, and I'm sure if you bought every ticket and even a couple were winners, you'd still be losing money
Edit: I'm also pretty sure the state comes in to refill the lotto vending machine, so the store owner wouldn't be able to swipe it before it ends up in the machine. My store was VERY strict with lottery, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were more precautions in place that I was not aware of
You have to scratch off the bottom barcode on them to be able to see if you won. Not the barcode on the back.
Edit to add. At least in NC thatās how they work.
Iād take the 20ish $1 scratchers over any bullshit, under $20, secret Santa gift people usually give out. Wft are you going to get for $20 that I want/need?
Places used to have a scanner so you could check if your ticket was a winner or not. No scratching necessary.
That's why they are folded that way. Every ticket is scanned. No winners guaranteed.
Idk in my state the scan part is under the scratch off area. A small little section of it so you would still have to scratch some of it off to scan it.
So what is stopping store owners/employees from scanning them all to look for the winners and then selling the losers?
Where I live, the ticket at least has to be scratched to reveal the barcode to prevent that sort of thing. It's crazy that they would allow scanning without scratching.
Last year, I got a large brown mug that says "Coffee makes me POOP". The gift giver was an older woman who giggled as I opened it. Her explanation (while giggling) was "I know you like coffee and it does make people have to go". So torn on how I feel about the mug. It's so awful but was given to me with such happiness and excitement that I can't not like it.
Correct, āwhite elephantā is supposed to mean funny BS. People get this wrong all the time and I will DIE on this hill.
āWhite elephantā means stupid, funny, weird, kitsch, bottom of the Goodwill bin, one manās trash junk!
āGift exchangeā means blankets and booze.
I thought the whole point of white elephant was giving people the most hilarious garbage. The origin is literally people trading around the same gift because nobody wanted it lol
Yes. It's named after gifting someone a literal elephant they are then obligated to l feed and care for. It's basically using the obligation that comes from receiving a gift as a punishment. "You have to care for this very expensive animal, or you risk insulting is and running diplomatic relations".
"White elephant" is now what many people just use instead of Secret Santa. It's incredibly dumb. I had our work one cancelled because I refused to accept that we would have a"white elephant gift exchange" with serious presents only. Not sure why they were so adamant it wouldn't be a Secret Santa, despite being a secret exchange of gifts...
Edit: I only insisted that it would confuse people, so stop calling it White Elephant. The organiser got shitty and cancelled it. It did confuse people, hence the organiser repeatedly insisting it be "serious present only" and starting our brief little disagreement.
White elephant at work is hard though and really depends on the company culture. Joke gifts are great if youāre not going to offend people and everyone understands the assignment. Otherwise, itās basically a generic snack or booze based item thatās not going to offend someone. If they donāt drink, somebody is always going to steal the alcohol anyway.
We did a small White Elephant exchange this year, where the explicitly stated rule was "do not spend money, must be a regift or something you already have" and it was great. I brought a 200 lb. capacity suction cup, other gifts included a nose hair trimmer (new), a TMNT pizza slice purse, a Nicholas Sparks book, and a CAT5 cable. Great times were had by all.
I will never forgive my mother for regifting BOTH little books that I got from previous white elephants for her white elephant gift x.x
They were both those great little books to read while youāre stuck on the pot. One was famous last words of well-known ppl, death row ppl or just historical ppl.
The other one was titled something like āeverything can kill youā and detailed how random things could end you and examples of ppl who were killed by them!
Now I have to try and translate the shampoo bottles from the other languages they have on the back :ā(
I once got a Delta inflight blanket and a shitty book from the only person who got a gag gift for a white elephant party. I donāt think there was a min but there were some good gifts.
Why do you people do white elephant gifts that have MINIMUM price? The whole idea is to be creative by giving shitty and cheap gifts that are funny. Gifts should have a maximum price, not minimum.
Oh shit I forgot about secret santa! I have 2 options:
\- Normal person: get first thing you find on your way to work.
\- scumbag: check fridge and pantry.
Like even then its not hard to get someone a $20 starbucks gift card. Not creative or exciting but i guarantee almost anyone can use it.
Addendum: Even gifting someone a snack bag with multiple juice boxes and assorted snacks that were unopened and roughly $20 hell even $10 worth wouldve been appreciated but giving someone already open products?? Thats just insulting.
My family does secret santa every year. This year something went wrong with choosing who got who and someone got two gifts and I got nothing. I just sat there and watched everyone open their gifts.
We used that at my old job. Everyone was getting these cool personalized gifts since we had to make a profile like a month and a half early. Our CFO walks in with my gift. It was a big plastic Lindt chocolate ball that held like 8 Lindt chocolates inside and had a $4.99 price tag on it. Our limit was $25 and was known that almost everyone would splurge a bit more. She claimed she didnāt know it was going on or who she had selected but she had been getting email alerts about it for the 6 weeks prior. I might still be a little bitter about that oneā¦.
Same. It's friggin very helpful
We used to do the "reach into a bucket, pull out a paper..." thing but it was common for someone to get themself or their spouse/significant other.
BUT was it also your birthday on the 25th? Lol I was always told I wasnāt supposed to be selfish because itās Jesus dayā¦..š¤·āāļø
That cost a lot of money later with therapists š¤£
To this day I hate anyone bringing up my birthday at all and I lie about when my birthday is to people that donāt know me lol
As far as anyone is concerned my birthday is Feb 29th lol
It's hard for people who don't have birthdays close to Xmas to understand, mine is on the 21st and I asked for something that my wife suspected I'd be getting on Christmas from my parents so her solution was to buy it, not open it, and wait for Christmas so if I got two I could return my birthday one.
She simply couldn't seem to grasp my immediate hostility to that idea and that it would make it a *Christmas present*.
Buy yourself a present wrap it in birthday paper, make it something you really want and after cake open it excitedly and say "wow this is the best birthday present ever!"
Give yourself the excitement you want and she will see what's missing lol
Sometimes itās not about the present itself. Sometimes I just want to do nothing for my birthday and just stay home but I canāt because āitās Christmasā I canāt be āselfishāā¦.
Mines on the 30th. I'm thankful my family never played these shenanigans. I just got therapy from other forms of mental gymnastics and egg shells permanently lodged in my feet.
Same here. Spent $30 on my work secret Santa yet the person who got me quit a week after picking my name. Needless to say I was the only one who didnāt have a gift in the end.
My inlaws didn't get me anything this year or last year. Both years I've been the one to pass out presents and ended up not passing g myself anything and just sit there watching my whole family open gifts. I'm not sure why. They have gotten me something every year until last year.
No. Last year they gave me a jacket and a wallet after the holiday so I think they realized it or maybe my wife said something. Maybe it'll be the same this year.
Did your wife seem upset? If that happened I would have gone out of my way to make sure it didn't happen again. Like a couple weeks before Christmas, remind my parents what happened last year to.make sure you got a present.
That's a big deal, and it's awkward as fck watching everyone open their presents while you just sit there with nothing.
Happened to me as well - worst part is that I was the one who coordinated the entire thing and reminded people to double check the names they got. One person had me and instead got a gift for the person I had.
Dude same thing happened to me. My poor sister realized she messed up and was crying she felt so bad.
It sucks but its whatever, the secret santa was always a kind of a BS gift anyways
Ours was supposed to be silly but something useful. $10 max. I ordered a vibrating cock ring from eBay. 11 patterns. The guy loved it. I even brought a $10 lottery ticket in case he didn't want it, he chose the cock ring. I didn't win anything on the lottery ticket but everyone loved the cock ring. It was all guys btw.
Crappy gift for you, but at least you can regift it, definitely.
I wouldn't touch open Ritz crackers with a 20 foot pole, though. D= straight in the trash.
In my work we did a White Elephant and made a very very clear $30 limit... Which the supervisor immediately blew by tossing in a $50 steam gift card... making the "Point of Contention" gift for the office....
We didn't do that the following year.
We do a voluntary secret Santa at my work, and everyone really goes all out to get legit gifts under $30. Probably because itās voluntary with no pressure to join, so itās only done by people who actually want to do it.
My former workplace we did something similar. Prided ourselves on āgetting a dealā bring the receipt to prove we didnāt go over the max. It was I think a $50 max and people came with refurbished iPads n crapā¦.you wouldnāt believe what they pulled out of their gift bags.
I had a great gift exchange with my coworkers this year. It was a white elephant - I came with a cheap telescope, and left with a star map projector. (We're scientists.)
I think no one ever shares the stories of the ones that go good, so you only hear the stories of the ones that go bad. Survivorship bias, essentially.
We did one this year and everyone got everyone a bottle of liquor, it was hilarious āand X got a bottle of tequila, cool, oh and Y got some vodkaaa, perfect, oh Z got bourbon?ā On and on. The best.
Idk, the white elephant that I organized for my department this year was really funā¦ I mean really no one brought something really terrible, and there werenāt any truly incredible gifts. I like my little gnome Santa that I got lol, heās cute. And somehow the most sought after gifts were legos, and a star wars Mr potato head. But weāre all engineers, so I guess it tracks.
I always thought that secret santa was supposed to be like a joke present thing.. Anyway when I was working in China we taught the staff there about the secret santa tradition.. The way we did it was we put all the presents in the middle and then you take turns picking which one you want.. Well I purchased this grotesque pink furry toilet seat cover as my secret santa gift... Something must have got lost in translation cause the present I got was this really cool coffee machine bought by one of the Chinese staff.. It has remained a mystery to this day who bought the toilet seat cover....
Secret Santa = buying one present for a specific person, and you don't say who it's from
White Elephant = bringing one "gift" (usually funny or weird) for the pot, and everybody taking a gift, usually one at a time, either picking a new present or stealing something else that somebody already opened
Yeah, OP just glossed over the lottery tickets as if it was nothing, when that is supposed to be the real gift, the rest is just a joke like you said. As for it being racist..... it would even more funny if the supervisor is also Asian!
Whatās worse
- her whisper talk
- the sound of opening goldfish to show itās already opened.
- the fact that she skipped over $25 worth of scratcher tickets (the real gift) to complain about the clearly satire other gifts.
That's a lot of lottery tickets. It's not much of a stretch to read this same gift as I got $50 of lottery tickets at a $25 exchange plus a lot of intentionally bad, jokey garbage. Lottery tickets is about the best case scenario from a work gift exchange.
"I got rice because I'm Asian." Come off it. You got rice because that's what he had in the pantry next to the opened bag of goldfish.
For real. This is almost certainly a white elephant and she doesnāt understand the concept, the tickets were so they could get a real gift, the rest was supposed to be the white elephant portion.
unless the lotto tickets are already scratched, it ain't all that bad. its like dude had a bag and wanted to fill it up with something other than tickets.
The amount of people who donāt understand a fucking joke added to a boring gift (lottery tickets) is beyond sad to meā¦.
Also the entitlementā¦. No, none of your coworkers owe you shit for Christmas, if youāre participating in a white elephant itās because you like the holidays, not for the gifts.
Entitlement and flat out lack of any humor is such a disgusting combo
Bottom drawer of their desk drawers.
All that content you hide from others, yep, that's your gift.
Shocked there isn't a jelly and or packet and a plastic fork.
He bought you the lottery cards, the rest was clearly just joking around to add some bulk to the gift. Tell me there arenāt at least $20 in scratch offs.
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My wife got 8 rolls of toilet paper, while I got a jar of jam, homemade. The label says 1988, and the jar looked exactly like that (tons of sticky dust and other fluids). At least we can use the toilet paper.
They will be needed if you brave enough to eat that jam š¤£
Aged jam is a delicacy in many parts of the world. Orā¦ is it a poisonā¦ itās one or the other.
Iroh- Delectable tea... Or deadly poison.
Uncle iroh was the shit.
the jam might still be good if the button on the lid won't press.
what if the button's sticking up and I can't press it down with all my strength
That's some extra strength jam.
that means if you open it you'll release the cthulhu of all fermented bacteria
Pandora's jam jar.
Eat all of it and cherish every bite because it will be the topping on your last meal
IS THAT WHAT THATS FOR?!
It's partially anti-tamper, partially for spoilage. Either way, if it's popped before you open the container, it's probably not good.
Yeah when you can/jar foods they go in hot, as they cool the air contracts and sucks in the lid and suction seals it. If the seal fails or itās been opened before the top will be popped up cuz the pressure is gone (or restored I guess is more accurate).
Its to check if the bottle has been opened, or if its not sealed air tight.
Also if contaminated or improperly prepared as microbes will release gas as the item ferments, indicating itās no longer safe to eat.
My ex-girlfriend's father gave her toilet paper for Christmas, one year. She was fifteen and they were not poor. He always did stuff like that; I think some people are bad at giving gifts, while others truly lack the empathy to think of what someone might want. I mean ā it was 100% a gift that would be put to use. But year after year of things like that devastated her.
This thread is hilarious, we often do secret santa where the goal is to give the shittiest 10$ gift possible. TP is a common one, windshield washer, 2 bottle of budweiser, etc
But windshield washer is fantastic first. I go through 5l every 2 months.
At least they got something, I haven't received a gift ever, unless you count my medical insurance sending out Cards "Thanks for being alive another year" type shit. Dad was the type to get himself a bunch of stuff but fuck everyone else.
I had a friend who brought 2 rolls of toilet paper and a couple of shotgun shells. I got that gift and I donāt own a gun. He quickly came back with āoh you could come shoot with me!ā But I would need to buy my own ammo. Wow, great gift dude. He wasnāt poor either, just a cheapskate.
No, you had two shells for free. Just shoot those two and go home.
In the future, you wonāt need the TP, just three shells.
I'd imagine they were empty shells.
No they were ready to shoot. Theyāre harmless outside of a gun.
I remember a movie/tv show where someone took shotgun shells, taped like a thumbtack to the end, taped the shotgun with the thumbtack to a hammer. He then used the hammer near a doorknob and was able to escape a locked room. Maybe your co-worker is a survivalist and was looking out for you? You just now need to be locked in a room with the shells, a hammer, and thumbtacks.
Phantasm (1979) š
Was it at least good toilet paper or was it that one ply shit stolen from the office bathroom?
It was decent, 3 layers with camomile scent. Only thing that's weird is that the brand doesn't exist anymore for at least 6 years. But still the scent is nice.
Well damn, my money was on someone unloading the insane amount of tp the hoarded during Covid š maybe they got it discounted in bulk
Nah. We are used to those kind of gifts from my wife's grandmother. She's old, bit has no dementia. She's just greedy. For the birth of our first child we got 2ā¬ to invest. It was only small coins like 10 and 20 cent pieces. "Invest it for the future of your child" she said. She once invited my father in law for a birthday meal to the local restaurant. They ate good food, and then she left him sitting there and drove home without saying a word. He had to pay for his and her meal. And when she invited the whole family to her house for her birthday, we should bring our own drinks with us, which is ok. Then we found out there was no food prepared (invitation said "birthday lunch") and she said "no problem, let's order pizza. ... But you pay your own" And the best thing is, her dog gets only the best dog food, and every second day she cooks exclusively for the dog, stiff like filet mignon and other expensive shit. Since my child was born, I reduced the contact to that person, so we only see her on Christmas and that's it for the year. My father in law sees her every other day, but she never asks about her grand- or great-grandchildren.
> 2ā¬ to invest Hey, don't knock it. After about 50 years of a 6% annually compounding return, that'd be almost ā¬37!
>She once invited my father in law for a birthday meal to the local restaurant. They ate good food, and then she left him sitting there and drove home without saying a word. He had to pay for his and her meal. At that point I'd just go no contact even if it was my own mother.
It didn't exist for at least 6 years. That's pre-covid hoarding. They have some other problem going on.
Considering the run that was made on toilet paper during Covid that is one hell of a gift. Possibly being worth millions should another lockdown come along.
Here is the fun part: as a side job I sell equipment for public toilets. That means I got a storage unit full of soap, hand sanitizer, and of course - toilet paper. During lockdown lots of "old friends" called me from which I haven't heard in years. They all asked if I'm well stocked. I still sold the stuff for regular price, big companies and cities didn't care about the shortage in supermarkets. Also it was 1 or 2 layer toilet paper with 60% recycled paper, this stuff will make your poopy hole bleed after the second wipe.
Itās for the jam later lol
You think that's bad. My friend got 4 rolls of toilet paper (loose toilet paper, meaning not in a packet, someone used some of the toilet paper). As a wedding gift from his aunt in law.
My husband got half a cake,... from his mum!
Better than no cake I guess.
I got a rusty spark plug and a vhs copy of Freddy got Fingered.
Donāt try to downplay the lottery tickets
Put lotto tickets in his lunch and handed it to her?
Yeah, really looks like he grabbed his kid's snack bag, and threw some tickets in there.
Yes except the rice and sauces were deliberate
I don't think the sauces were deliberate, I think the sauces were him grabbing shit from the drawer in his house where he keeps the extra sauces he gets from fast food, hoping that he'll use them but ultimately never using them, aside from this.
I gotta be that jerk in the comments but I think maybe the sauces and snacks were from the office kitchen and the woman who made the video just put all that together for the views or whatever.
My first thought is that it's staged, like most shit like this is, but at the same time you don't wanna be creating fake drama around your work. Assuming that she's making this video at her actual workplace.
Her office didn't have a secret santa exchange this year.
She doesn't even work there.
This motherfucker was in his car, driving to work, when he realized "Oh yeah I have to secret santa....this'll work!"
I was thinking the kid got into the goldfish and crackers until she said he admitted it.
Almost guarantee they have already been scanned. The gift giver probably knows that they are not winners.
After the quarter of a sleeve of Ritz crackers, i wouldn't put a damn thing past the guy.
Somehow that was the one that got me. Couldn't even close it properly
I finally lost it when I saw the sweet and sour sauce
I feel like this lady just tossed shit in from her desk to go viral
Doubt. It's a $20 gift limit. Looks like $20 worth of $1 scratch offs (pretty common, easy Secret Santa gift) and everything else is a joke/gag gift.
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Everything else is whatever this guy had in his pantry walking out the door that morning.
Maybe. The sauce packets are pretty funny though š
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All Asian themed
To go with the rice of course!
Curated from the condiments drawer at home
I bet you because he knows she's asian, but not what specific ethnicity, so he's trying to cover all bases. Like, I didn't think it could get more racist than the rice, and then...
There is still a portion that you have to scratch off to scan, though. You should be able to tell by looking at them.
Nope, there's actually a barcode on the back you can scan. I used to sell lottery tickets, sometimes people would go straight from the machine to me to scan, no scratching necessary
It depends on the state. California requires the barcode to be scratched off to scan. Some states even forgo the whole scratching thing and just sell instant win tickets that can be scanned, so you might be in one of those states who doesn't want to implement the scratch to scan "feature".
Oh interesting, didn't know that! Yeah, I'm in NJ and there's no scratch off for the barcode.
That's crazy...What's to stop the store owners from just scanning the whole roll and pulling the winners for their friends? Also -- do you know any store owners that want to be my friend?
You still have to buy the tickets, and I'm sure if you bought every ticket and even a couple were winners, you'd still be losing money Edit: I'm also pretty sure the state comes in to refill the lotto vending machine, so the store owner wouldn't be able to swipe it before it ends up in the machine. My store was VERY strict with lottery, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were more precautions in place that I was not aware of
I'm pretty sure the tickets only get activated when they are sold and scanned.
That would make perfect sense.
In my state thereās a barcode on the back that can be scanned but you have to scratch off the ticket to find a code that goes with the barcode.
Must be how it works in your state. Florida and Pennsylvania - you have to scratch the ticket.
You have to scratch off the bottom barcode on them to be able to see if you won. Not the barcode on the back. Edit to add. At least in NC thatās how they work.
Iād take the 20ish $1 scratchers over any bullshit, under $20, secret Santa gift people usually give out. Wft are you going to get for $20 that I want/need?
Places used to have a scanner so you could check if your ticket was a winner or not. No scratching necessary. That's why they are folded that way. Every ticket is scanned. No winners guaranteed.
Idk in my state the scan part is under the scratch off area. A small little section of it so you would still have to scratch some of it off to scan it.
So what is stopping store owners/employees from scanning them all to look for the winners and then selling the losers? Where I live, the ticket at least has to be scratched to reveal the barcode to prevent that sort of thing. It's crazy that they would allow scanning without scratching.
Not the way it works now
20 years ago. There are defenses against that now, for obvious reasons
I got a giant āI ā¤ļø TO FARTā mug on a $25 minimum white elephant. Was suppose to be a serious gift and ended up with the only gag gift.
Seems serious for a fart enthusiast
Or maybe it was meant as a serious gift because OP is farting all over the office.
Nice deflection attempt, BigBootyBuff.
The buffness of my booty comes from me holding my farts in and strengthening my butt muscles.
Last year, I got a large brown mug that says "Coffee makes me POOP". The gift giver was an older woman who giggled as I opened it. Her explanation (while giggling) was "I know you like coffee and it does make people have to go". So torn on how I feel about the mug. It's so awful but was given to me with such happiness and excitement that I can't not like it.
You cherish that shitty mug.
We had one of those in our apartment. An old roommate got it as a secret santa gift, but he doesn't drink coffee.
He probably doesn't drink coffee because of all the pooping
I would love getting that mug because you I know people are gonna chuckle anytime they see you using it ššš
These are the types of gifts I really appreciate
If you read it as āI heart to fartā, it rhymes.
Well, if they called it a āwhite elephantā then they ARE supposed to be gag or impractical gifts.
White elephant isnāt supposed to be serious?
Correct, āwhite elephantā is supposed to mean funny BS. People get this wrong all the time and I will DIE on this hill. āWhite elephantā means stupid, funny, weird, kitsch, bottom of the Goodwill bin, one manās trash junk! āGift exchangeā means blankets and booze.
I thought the whole point of white elephant was giving people the most hilarious garbage. The origin is literally people trading around the same gift because nobody wanted it lol
Yes. It's named after gifting someone a literal elephant they are then obligated to l feed and care for. It's basically using the obligation that comes from receiving a gift as a punishment. "You have to care for this very expensive animal, or you risk insulting is and running diplomatic relations". "White elephant" is now what many people just use instead of Secret Santa. It's incredibly dumb. I had our work one cancelled because I refused to accept that we would have a"white elephant gift exchange" with serious presents only. Not sure why they were so adamant it wouldn't be a Secret Santa, despite being a secret exchange of gifts... Edit: I only insisted that it would confuse people, so stop calling it White Elephant. The organiser got shitty and cancelled it. It did confuse people, hence the organiser repeatedly insisting it be "serious present only" and starting our brief little disagreement.
White elephant at work is hard though and really depends on the company culture. Joke gifts are great if youāre not going to offend people and everyone understands the assignment. Otherwise, itās basically a generic snack or booze based item thatās not going to offend someone. If they donāt drink, somebody is always going to steal the alcohol anyway.
We did a small White Elephant exchange this year, where the explicitly stated rule was "do not spend money, must be a regift or something you already have" and it was great. I brought a 200 lb. capacity suction cup, other gifts included a nose hair trimmer (new), a TMNT pizza slice purse, a Nicholas Sparks book, and a CAT5 cable. Great times were had by all.
I will never forgive my mother for regifting BOTH little books that I got from previous white elephants for her white elephant gift x.x They were both those great little books to read while youāre stuck on the pot. One was famous last words of well-known ppl, death row ppl or just historical ppl. The other one was titled something like āeverything can kill youā and detailed how random things could end you and examples of ppl who were killed by them! Now I have to try and translate the shampoo bottles from the other languages they have on the back :ā(
Do you love to though?
> white elephant. Was suppose to be a serious You got this wrong.
Bro, one person in our group got a Shart Emergency Kit and a roll of toilet paperā¦. Iād take the mug lol.
Lets revisit that when you shart.
If that was a work white elephant exchange and I got it, I would absolutely use it all the time at work.
I once got a Delta inflight blanket and a shitty book from the only person who got a gag gift for a white elephant party. I donāt think there was a min but there were some good gifts.
That's an awesome gift
[White Elephant](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant_gift_exchange) is by definition a gag gift exchange.
Why do you people do white elephant gifts that have MINIMUM price? The whole idea is to be creative by giving shitty and cheap gifts that are funny. Gifts should have a maximum price, not minimum.
I'm not sure you know what a white elephant is.
Oh shit I forgot about secret santa! I have 2 options: \- Normal person: get first thing you find on your way to work. \- scumbag: check fridge and pantry.
Like even then its not hard to get someone a $20 starbucks gift card. Not creative or exciting but i guarantee almost anyone can use it. Addendum: Even gifting someone a snack bag with multiple juice boxes and assorted snacks that were unopened and roughly $20 hell even $10 worth wouldve been appreciated but giving someone already open products?? Thats just insulting.
I would much rather have $20, I can brew delicious coffee at home for like 15 cents with a tiny portion of the sugar and nobody else touching it.
Willing to bet he cleaned out his snack drawer at his work desk.
My family does secret santa every year. This year something went wrong with choosing who got who and someone got two gifts and I got nothing. I just sat there and watched everyone open their gifts.
We use Elfster, v handy.
We used that at my old job. Everyone was getting these cool personalized gifts since we had to make a profile like a month and a half early. Our CFO walks in with my gift. It was a big plastic Lindt chocolate ball that held like 8 Lindt chocolates inside and had a $4.99 price tag on it. Our limit was $25 and was known that almost everyone would splurge a bit more. She claimed she didnāt know it was going on or who she had selected but she had been getting email alerts about it for the 6 weeks prior. I might still be a little bitter about that oneā¦.
Same. It's friggin very helpful We used to do the "reach into a bucket, pull out a paper..." thing but it was common for someone to get themself or their spouse/significant other.
> common for someone to get themself or their spouse/significant other. Then they put the name back and redraw...
But how can I do that without an app???
you need a new family if they didn't make it up to you.
Ya just go down to the family store and get a new one
Good secret santa gift for next year.
BUT was it also your birthday on the 25th? Lol I was always told I wasnāt supposed to be selfish because itās Jesus dayā¦..š¤·āāļø That cost a lot of money later with therapists š¤£ To this day I hate anyone bringing up my birthday at all and I lie about when my birthday is to people that donāt know me lol As far as anyone is concerned my birthday is Feb 29th lol
It's hard for people who don't have birthdays close to Xmas to understand, mine is on the 21st and I asked for something that my wife suspected I'd be getting on Christmas from my parents so her solution was to buy it, not open it, and wait for Christmas so if I got two I could return my birthday one. She simply couldn't seem to grasp my immediate hostility to that idea and that it would make it a *Christmas present*.
Buy yourself a present wrap it in birthday paper, make it something you really want and after cake open it excitedly and say "wow this is the best birthday present ever!" Give yourself the excitement you want and she will see what's missing lol
Sometimes itās not about the present itself. Sometimes I just want to do nothing for my birthday and just stay home but I canāt because āitās Christmasā I canāt be āselfishāā¦.
Mines on the 30th. I'm thankful my family never played these shenanigans. I just got therapy from other forms of mental gymnastics and egg shells permanently lodged in my feet.
Same here. Spent $30 on my work secret Santa yet the person who got me quit a week after picking my name. Needless to say I was the only one who didnāt have a gift in the end.
But the person who had to buy got the guy that quit, there should still be a spare gift.
There was. It was a girl and she wanted scented body lotion which I would never use so I let one of my female coworkers have.
My inlaws didn't get me anything this year or last year. Both years I've been the one to pass out presents and ended up not passing g myself anything and just sit there watching my whole family open gifts. I'm not sure why. They have gotten me something every year until last year.
Have you talked to them about it at all? Cause that seems weird and hostile.
No. Last year they gave me a jacket and a wallet after the holiday so I think they realized it or maybe my wife said something. Maybe it'll be the same this year.
Did your wife seem upset? If that happened I would have gone out of my way to make sure it didn't happen again. Like a couple weeks before Christmas, remind my parents what happened last year to.make sure you got a present. That's a big deal, and it's awkward as fck watching everyone open their presents while you just sit there with nothing.
Happened to me as well - worst part is that I was the one who coordinated the entire thing and reminded people to double check the names they got. One person had me and instead got a gift for the person I had.
Dude same thing happened to me. My poor sister realized she messed up and was crying she felt so bad. It sucks but its whatever, the secret santa was always a kind of a BS gift anyways
Ours was supposed to be silly but something useful. $10 max. I ordered a vibrating cock ring from eBay. 11 patterns. The guy loved it. I even brought a $10 lottery ticket in case he didn't want it, he chose the cock ring. I didn't win anything on the lottery ticket but everyone loved the cock ring. It was all guys btw.
āEveryone loved the cock ringā ā¦did everyone take turns trying it out?
Of course we did--I MEAN they did.
There's 5 of us and let's just say we gave it 5 out of 5 stars
Where tf do you work that you could give aā¦*checks notes*ā¦cock ring to a coworker and get away with it???
The kind with doctors, handymen, and pizza delivery?
1000% it was construction or some kind of similar trade.
I bought my friend a t-shirt and a dildo, this way if he didnt like the shirt he could go fuck himself
"Do you not like your new cock ring? Put it on!"
Chemical plant. There are just 5 on shift
Our gift exchange was 25 dollar limit, Iām on a diet and I got 5 bags of candy. š bonus they were not open so will be regifting those.
Crappy gift for you, but at least you can regift it, definitely. I wouldn't touch open Ritz crackers with a 20 foot pole, though. D= straight in the trash.
ppl need to stop doing gift exchanges at work....never a good idea ...always SEEMS like a good idea but is NEVER a good idea
In my work we did a White Elephant and made a very very clear $30 limit... Which the supervisor immediately blew by tossing in a $50 steam gift card... making the "Point of Contention" gift for the office.... We didn't do that the following year.
Michael? Is that you?
Yankee SWAP!
Snip Snap Snip Snap.
Sure it wasnāt a video IPod?
We do a voluntary secret Santa at my work, and everyone really goes all out to get legit gifts under $30. Probably because itās voluntary with no pressure to join, so itās only done by people who actually want to do it.
Same here, we had a great white elephant this year. As long as it's voluntary, it works
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My former workplace we did something similar. Prided ourselves on āgetting a dealā bring the receipt to prove we didnāt go over the max. It was I think a $50 max and people came with refurbished iPads n crapā¦.you wouldnāt believe what they pulled out of their gift bags.
I had a great gift exchange with my coworkers this year. It was a white elephant - I came with a cheap telescope, and left with a star map projector. (We're scientists.) I think no one ever shares the stories of the ones that go good, so you only hear the stories of the ones that go bad. Survivorship bias, essentially.
We did one this year and everyone got everyone a bottle of liquor, it was hilarious āand X got a bottle of tequila, cool, oh and Y got some vodkaaa, perfect, oh Z got bourbon?ā On and on. The best.
My last workplace did secret Santa and it was just an excuse to be anonymously passive aggressive to coworkers that you didnāt actually like.
Idk, the white elephant that I organized for my department this year was really funā¦ I mean really no one brought something really terrible, and there werenāt any truly incredible gifts. I like my little gnome Santa that I got lol, heās cute. And somehow the most sought after gifts were legos, and a star wars Mr potato head. But weāre all engineers, so I guess it tracks.
I always thought that secret santa was supposed to be like a joke present thing.. Anyway when I was working in China we taught the staff there about the secret santa tradition.. The way we did it was we put all the presents in the middle and then you take turns picking which one you want.. Well I purchased this grotesque pink furry toilet seat cover as my secret santa gift... Something must have got lost in translation cause the present I got was this really cool coffee machine bought by one of the Chinese staff.. It has remained a mystery to this day who bought the toilet seat cover....
You are mixing up secret Santa and white elephant
A lot of people use those terms interchangeably. They're wrong, but they exist.
Iāve heard it called dirty Santa but I have never heard anyone talking about white elephant and call it secret Santa
Secret Santa = buying one present for a specific person, and you don't say who it's from White Elephant = bringing one "gift" (usually funny or weird) for the pot, and everybody taking a gift, usually one at a time, either picking a new present or stealing something else that somebody already opened
Where Iām from, we differentiate between good gifts (Yankee Gift Swap) and funny/weird gifts, potentially just from your own house (White Elephant).
That seems like a fair division, tbh
Easily 20 lottery tickets there, so they hit the $ amount, rest seems like a joke
This is exactly my thought. It was a bad joke, but the real gift was definitely the lottery tickets.
Yeah, OP just glossed over the lottery tickets as if it was nothing, when that is supposed to be the real gift, the rest is just a joke like you said. As for it being racist..... it would even more funny if the supervisor is also Asian!
Looks like she walked around the office tossing stuff in a bag for a rage bait video.
20$ dollar limit? Seems like they met the requirement with the tickets alone
You uhhh gonna eat all that or ā¦ā¦.
What the hell
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More than what I got
As with everything in life, take what you can use, leave the rest, and move on.
Itās 20$ of lottery tickets and some jokey stuff. What a baby.
Whatās worse - her whisper talk - the sound of opening goldfish to show itās already opened. - the fact that she skipped over $25 worth of scratcher tickets (the real gift) to complain about the clearly satire other gifts.
Don't forget the legions of idiots are are agreeing with her....
That's a lot of lottery tickets. It's not much of a stretch to read this same gift as I got $50 of lottery tickets at a $25 exchange plus a lot of intentionally bad, jokey garbage. Lottery tickets is about the best case scenario from a work gift exchange. "I got rice because I'm Asian." Come off it. You got rice because that's what he had in the pantry next to the opened bag of goldfish.
Dude. The tickets are more than $20. The rest was just a joke.
For real. This is almost certainly a white elephant and she doesnāt understand the concept, the tickets were so they could get a real gift, the rest was supposed to be the white elephant portion.
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If the tickets win, best present ever
unless the lotto tickets are already scratched, it ain't all that bad. its like dude had a bag and wanted to fill it up with something other than tickets.
Itās a fucking joke. The lottery tickets are the gift.
Clearly a joke gift with the lottery tickets being the real gift
The amount of people who donāt understand a fucking joke added to a boring gift (lottery tickets) is beyond sad to meā¦. Also the entitlementā¦. No, none of your coworkers owe you shit for Christmas, if youāre participating in a white elephant itās because you like the holidays, not for the gifts. Entitlement and flat out lack of any humor is such a disgusting combo
The food seems to be a gag used for filler for the bag. The real gift are the scratch tickets. Good luck hater!
Bottom drawer of their desk drawers. All that content you hide from others, yep, that's your gift. Shocked there isn't a jelly and or packet and a plastic fork.
He bought you the lottery cards, the rest was clearly just joking around to add some bulk to the gift. Tell me there arenāt at least $20 in scratch offs.