31 Ideas for White Elephant Gift Parties

There are basically three different types of White Elephant Gift Parties, so I'll take each type (and recommended gifts) one at a time. The best part about this is that you can obtain almost all of these gift ideas at Amazon.com (if you want to plan ahead that far) or from local convenience or grocery stores. Remember, don't get stressed over these. White Elephant Gift parties are meant to be fun!

A. The "gag-gift" exchange where people find the tackiest things that they can to give as gifts. But as with all White Elephant Gift parties, you'll want to give something worth fighting for to make the party more fun. (The game involves each person getting to choose either a gift from the unselected pile, or take the gift of one of the previous recipients - so you want to give something steal-worthy if possible.)

For "the gag gift" inexpensive white elephant gift exchange:

1. Toilet Paper or alternately, a toilet seat.
2. Fruitcake - no really it's hilarious, especially with a half a bottle of rum (vodka, scotch, etc).
3. Instant (Recovery) Breakfast - Pop Tarts, packet or two of instant coffee, and a packet of hangover cure (that you can get at convenience stores), or, failing that, "NoDoz" caffeine supplements.
4. Red stapler (ala the movie, Office Space) Yes, it needs to be red.
5. Can of beans (barbecue, bakes or the like), gas-x, and air freshener.
6. Copier paper and one of those fake 1000 dollar bills.
7. Stress ball and voodoo doll or foam bat
8. Glow in the dark silly putty.
9. Brown lunch bag or sock puppet (preferably that you make yourself)
10. The famous Origami Boulder from http://www.origamiboulder.com/

Or, my personal favorite: a rubber chicken, hand sanitizer and an article on Avian Flu. Actually, just the rubber chicken works too - who doesn't have a use for a rubber chicken?)