So, you need to find the best white elephant gifts? You’ve come to the right place. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a white elephant gift exchange, it’s a holiday party game (often a work-related team builder sometimes known as a “Dirty Santa”) that involves everyone in the group bringing a wrapped gift, placing them together, then taking turns opening and swapping gifts at random. At the end, usually the first player can steal someone else’s gift. The perfect swap, or steal, is all part of the strategy—and hanging on to your gift, if it’s a good one, is tough to do.
Figuring out an amazing gift to contribute that will surprise fellow partygoers with is all part of the delight. The best white elephant gifts are usually some mixture of silly, kooky, and useful, or a mix of all three, and there’s typically a low price limit. Whether your gift exchange is with pals, coworkers, or book club members, there are more than enough splendidly strange white elephant gift ideas for everyone on this list.
We rooted around the web—a gold mine for finding weird, cheap gifts and stocking stuffers —and pulled together this list of white elephant gift ideas that will likely end up on the “steal” circuit, all for under $50 (and many under $25). Here’s hoping your gift will be the most talked-about of the day.
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