 |
 |
Company Xmas Gifts Under $100?
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Our company is having a Christmas party, and I have the task of getting some gifts/giveaways. All of the employees are under 35, and we will have an equal amount of guys/gals at the party. I am at a loss about what to get. If you were able to pick a non-computer-related, gender neutral gift under $100, what would you want for yourself?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
$100 (or less) Visa gift card?
|
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
I already have a couple of those to give out; looking for something else.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status:
Online
|
|
iPod shuffle?
Not *quite* non-computer-related, but…
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator  Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Polwaristan
Status:
Offline
|
|
For anyone you don't like, get them a used Zune, brown of course.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Detroit
Status:
Offline
|
|
putter for the "guys"; wine basket for the "gals".
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Status:
Offline
|
|
More seriously: is there a bar/restaurant nearby that is a popular happy hour spot for employees? Maybe a gift certificate there?
|
"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: We come from the land of the ice and snow...
Status:
Offline
|
|
Wine is always a popular gift at our Yankee Swaps, as are gadgets, thinkgeek items, and scratch tickets. Candles are scorned by most, and cocoa/mug or other food sets are safe. Last year the most swapped item was a Snugli. No joke.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
A little more information about our employees: none of our employees live near each other (everyone is in different cities/states), and they all work from home. So a local restaurant certificate unfortunately won't work. This will be the first time that everyone is meeting everyone else face-to-face.
The gifts most of you are suggesting are okay, but none of our employees drink wine (or any type of alcohol), and no one plays golf. Looking more for what *you* would want instead of generic office gift ideas (cocoa mugs, etc.). The iPod shuffle is a good idea. I have checked out thinkgeek but nothing on the site pops out at me. What specifically would you want from thinkgeek?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Polwaristan
Status:
Offline
|
|
iTunes gift cards. Are they good for the App Store too?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: 93
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
93 93/93
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: We come from the land of the ice and snow...
Status:
Offline
|
|
Thinkgeek: USB Tardis, or the cookie jar Tardis.  Some of the tshirts and gadgets.
Perhaps we should have asked what the business does?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: California
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle, Washington
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 
iTunes gift cards. Are they good for the App Store too?
Yes.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by torsoboy
but none of our employees drink wine (or any type of alcohol), and no one plays golf.
What ? NONE ? 
Does your employer make them sign wavers ?
-t
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Atlanta, GA
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by torsoboy
The gifts most of you are suggesting are okay, but none of our employees drink wine (or any type of alcohol), and no one plays golf.
You definitely don't work for a bank...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
Status:
Offline
|
|
Give them $100 gift cards from Amazon or someplace like that.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Boston
Status:
Offline
|
|
Take a look at thinkgeek. They have some cool stuff and much of it is reasonably priced.
|
~Mike
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by andi*pandi
Thinkgeek: USB Tardis, or the cookie jar Tardis. Some of the tshirts and gadgets.
Perhaps we should have asked what the business does?
I had to lookup "Tardis" to see what this was. I wonder if many others would know what it is right off the bat.
The business is an online storefront provider for professional photographers (instaproofs.com).
Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²
Buckey Balls
I actually already have a couple of sets of these to give out. They are a lot of fun 
Originally Posted by turtle777
What ? NONE ?
Does your employer make them sign wavers ?
-t
Of course we don't sign waivers. Everyone (14 people) just happens to be active Mormons, and none of them drink alcohol.
Originally Posted by osiris
Give them $100 gift cards from Amazon or someplace like that.
Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
iTunes gift cards. Are they good for the App Store too?
These might be something we could get. I was hoping to get away from gift cards as much as possible though. Just to keep it a little more fun.
----
The gifts are going to be given away in an auction-style event. Everyone starts with xxx fake dollars, and they can try to outbid others for the item(s) of their choosing. If everything is a gift card it will make it less fun, I think.
I appreciate the ideas, everyone. It seemed like it would be a pretty easy task to get these gifts, but it has turned out to be a bit more difficult than I anticipated.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
"Specific knowledge on a topic usually demonstrates in-depth knowledge."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator  Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on the verge of insanity
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
I like my water with hops, malt, hops, yeast, and hops.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Eternity
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Eternity
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by torsoboy
The gifts are going to be given away in an auction-style event. Everyone starts with xxx fake dollars, and they can try to outbid others for the item(s) of their choosing. If everything is a gift card it will make it less fun, I think.
It's more fun if you vary the dollar amount of the gift cards and don't say what that amount is when each is auctioned.
[/evil]
|
"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
How about a stripper and 100 $1 bills?
|
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Rumor
Shakeweight.
Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Lol 
Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey
It's more fun if you vary the dollar amount of the gift cards and don't say what that amount is when each is auctioned.
[/evil]
I like it! Maybe I will try something variation of this. Some mystery gifts.
Originally Posted by olePigeon
How about a stripper and 100 $1 bills?
See the comment above about everyone being Mormon?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by olePigeon
How about a stripper and 100 $1 bills?
Originally Posted by torsoboy
See the comment above about everyone being Mormon?
Guys, let's show some respect and understanding.
He doesn't need just any strippers.
He needs Mormon strippers.
-t
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yeah, but then the guys have to explain to their 8 wives that they were at the bowling alley all night.
|
|
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: We come from the land of the ice and snow...
Status:
Offline
|
|
Are there women coworkers? You'll need two strippers then.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa
Status:
Offline
|
|
Are there women coworkers? You don't need strippers then, just alcohol. The problem will solve itself.
|
"Specific knowledge on a topic usually demonstrates in-depth knowledge."
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: We come from the land of the ice and snow...
Status:
Offline
|
|
Ah, those drunken Mormon parties.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle, Washington
Status:
Offline
|
|
IDK, there is a Mormon church in my neighbourhood and they all drive like they're high and drunk.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by imitchellg5
IDK, there is a Mormon church in my neighbourhood and they all drive like they're high and drunk.
With 8 wives, who wouldn't drive like he's nuts.
-t
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: San Diego
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top
