🎁 Winning white elephant

This is Better Gift Coach, where even if the spending limit is $20, we’ll give you gift ideas that show you care a whole lot more than a homemade oven mitt's worth. We’re talking video iPod-level of caring.

Just to test the waters before I throw in more future The Office-related references, if you know, please simply reply to this email with what Kevin ended up with at the end of the gift exchange.

For any new subscribers, please know that you can freely access our library of past gift ideas.

Also, next week’s email will focus on last minute gift ideas.

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🎁THE GIFT:

The “white elephant tradition gift" Gift

What's the best gift you've ever received/given?

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🌮 WHY THIS GIFT IS GREAT:

• Wow

• Group bonding rocket fuel

• Irresistible annual tradition potential

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Tags to find similar stories: less than $20, workplace, experience, last-minute, tradition

💡TIPS FOR YOUR GIFT:

For white elephant gift exchanges:

• Give gifts with great tradition potential

• If you receive a gift with great tradition potential, save it for next year

• The group experience should overshadow the utility of the actual gifts exchanged

• If compelled to give practical gifts, add something silly to it (like the wrapping job or a single sock)

White elephant gift ideas:

• Silly white elephant gift ideas

• Practical white elephant gift ideas

• DIY/last-minute white elephant gift ideas

Just for you, I scoured Reddit to find a few personal favorites:

• Fake Lottery Scratch Offs

• Pooping Pooches Calendar

• P Is for Pterodactyl: Worst Alphabet Book Ever

For Secret Santa gifts (you know who you’re buying for), consider inside joke gifts

🤔GIFT BRAINSTORMING PROMPTS:

• Does your white elephant gift have annual tradition potential? ______

• How can you add a dash of silly to your practical white elephant gift? _____

• What group in your life should do a white elephant but doesn’t (until you step up) _____

▶️FORWARD THIS GIFT IDEA TO:

• Everyone participating in your white elephant

And introduce them to your favorite 1-minute a week shortcut to always having awesome gift ideas well in advance. They can read past editions and subscribe here.

👂LET'S HEAR FROM YOU:

• Reply to this email with the best white elephant gifts you’ve ever received/witnessed! For everyone’s enjoyment, we’ll share the best answers in a future email (if we receive enough).

🤓GIFT GIVING BY THE NUMBERS:

Move over pop vs soda vs coke debate...

😆GIF/MEME:

All the best,Patrick KucharsonBetter Gift Coach™

P.S. I’m very thankful for this newsletter being recognized in the December issue of Real Simple Magazine as a best tip for “finding ridiculously memorable gifts - on time & under budget”! Pick one up in the checkout aisle so you don't miss out on the other tips for winning gift-giving this holiday season.

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