So, you need some white elephant gift ideas? You’ve come to the right place. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a white elephant gift exchange, it’s a holiday game (typically a work team builder) that involves opening and swapping gifts until all the gifts have been opened. 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.
Narrowing down an amazing white elephant gift to surprise your coworkers with is all part of the delight: The ideal white elephant gift is usually some mixture of humorous and kooky (but not necessarily useful), or a mix of both, and there’s typically a price limit of around $20. We rooted around the web, an obvious gold mine for finding weird, cheap gifts, and pulled together this list of 24 delightful gifts that will likely end up on the “steal” circuit, for less than $25. So whether your group is back in the office or doing their gift exchange virtually, there are more than enough splendidly strange white elephant gift ideas for everyone on this list.
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