The Definitive 2016 Secret Santa Gift Guide

Everything, for everyone, sorted. 🎅

CharlieHR
3 min readNov 28, 2016

Ahhh December — mindlessly scrolling through Twitter, sipping a steaming gingerbread latté, dreaming up your outfit for the Christmas party…

…when your inbox pings. It’s time for Secret Santa, and you’ve been paired with someone you barely know. “Be thoughtful,” the email instructs. You look frantically around your desk for ideas. A stapler? Too boring. A glass of water? Too conceptual. A framed photo of your kids? Too creepy.

Don’t panic. We’re all about saving you time, so not only have we sourced the best quirky gifts going this Christmas, but we’ve also sorted them by office role (Biz Dev, CEO, Creative, Customer Service, and IT), and by budget. Jingle those bells!

GIFTS UNDER £5

Biz Dev

Hot Cookie Cup Warmer, £4.99

With so many people to talk to, you rarely have time to sip. This USB cup warmer ensures they’ll stay caffeinated.

CEO

£1,000,000 Note, £1.99

Funding rounds take time and generally don’t fit inside a Christmas Card. Make their dreams come true.

Creative

Wheelie Bin Pencil Sharpener, £3.99

Cute, practical, and a good reminder that some ideas belong in the bin.

Customer Service

Guatemalan Worry Doll, £2.95

Tell it your problems, put it under your pillow, and by morning all 10,000 tickets in your queue will be gone.

IT

Chocolate Games Controller, £4.99

Technically a chocolate Super Nintendo controller, if we’re being specific. Which we always are…

GIFTS UNDER £10

Biz Dev

Personalised Leather Business Card Holder, £9.99

Nothing says fun like a business card holder with your initial on it.

CEO

Ladybird Book of The Meeting, £7

Meetings: where people talk about working instead of working. A truly actionable, blue-sky-thinking kind of present.

Creative

Banksy Balloon Girl Wall Sticker, £9

At the very least this will demonstrate that you’ve heard about *art*. Also wall stickers are very “in” right now.

Customer Service

Grammar Mug, £9.95

When people write to you with poor spelling all day, you need a reminder that the real world is a saner, more ordered place. Voila! The grammar mug.

IT

WiFi Password Eye Test, £8

A classic optician’s eye test poster, customised to be your office WiFi password. They get asked for it once a day, help them out!

GIFTS UNDER £20

Biz Dev

Light Up Cinema Message Board, £19.99

Text Ideas: “7 clients landed this month!” or “BRB, chasing leads“.

CEO

Buy a Christmas Dinner for Two Homeless People, £20

Q: What do you get for someone who has everything? A: Something for someone else!

Creative

Make Your Own Snowglobe, £14.95

No more snowmen and tiny villages; now your creative colleague can build a robot, recreate the diner scene from Pulp Fiction, or, more likely, make a little company logo and put it in the meeting room.

Customer Service

Knuckle Duster Mug, £12.95

A mug that says, “I talk to a hundred idiots a day, please don’t make it a hundred and one.”

IT

USB Fingerprint Reader, £14.13

Another level of security, this locks their computer until their fingerprint is scanned. Good for looking like a hacker in a Hollywood film!

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