For anyone unfamiliar with Secret Santa, (1) Where do you live? Under a rock? and (2) You lucky, lucky thing to never have to go through this ordeal. Secret Santa is this group gift-exchange where a bunch of people (often work-based) decide that you really can't be arsed buying gifts for everyone and that you'd rather pull names out of a hat to see which lucky, lucky human being you will be bestowing a present upon.
It's supposed to be anonymous, but there are only five people in our Secret Santa and we all work in the same room. So it doesn't take much to guess who your present came from.
And here's the rub: technically I'm everyone's boss. So I need a nice present for around the £10 - £15 mark, that isn't a humorous gift and that doesn't say 'I'm the FUN boss', or make me look like a wanker. Just something ... nice.
Now, when I say 'something nice', obviously I mean 'books'. But I don't even know if my Secret Santa recipient reads (*assumes Victorian fainting lady position*). Or if she does, what genre(s) she reads. Also I got kind of burnt last year when I bought ACOTAR and ACOMAF for my Secret Santa before realising on the 27th December that books containing graphic sex scenes might not be appropriate in a workplace gift-exchange.
I've just looked on the Boots website in their Christmas gift section and literally everything is toiletry-based. Everything. I mean, I know they're Boots the Chemist, but fuck me. Not every woman thinks Christmas begins and ends with bloody bath bombs.
So here's my Christmas plea:
Dear Internet
Please suggest what I can get for my secret Santa. It can't be chocolates or wine as she is on Slimming World. Not sure if she reads (likely does, but possibly not YA). Nothing work-based, as I don't want to remind her about work during the Christmas holidays. Nothing humour-based as I don't want to look like a tosser. Not sure if she supports sport teams. Not sure what music she likes. (You'd think I'd know more about the person I've spent almost a whole year sitting opposite to). She enjoys baking and runs a small cake-making business in her spare time, but I'm assuming she already has a bunch of recipe books and stuff. She has a young son.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Yours
Book Blog Bird.