Rude Secret Santa gifts that actually land

Secret Santa is a strange format. You have about eight pounds, somebody you may have spoken to twice, and a thirty-second window where everybody is watching them unwrap it. Most people solve this with a novelty mug that goes in a cupboard. You can do better, and you do not need to spend more.

The gift has to work in the room, not just on the sofa

Whatever you buy gets opened in front of people. That is the actual event. So the thing you want is an immediate laugh and then something they will genuinely use - not a gag that dies the second it is out of the paper.

This is why printed tees and mugs do well: the joke lands in the room, and then it goes home and gets used.

Know how rude the room is

There is a line and it is different in every office. A good test: imagine the person holding it up while their manager reads it over their shoulder. If that image makes you wince, go one step milder - the laugh is the same and nobody has a conversation about it afterwards.

Our range runs from "mildly inappropriate" to "do not open at the works do". It is worth knowing which end you are shopping at.

Specific beats generic, every time

"Funny mug" is forgettable. A mug that is about the one thing everyone knows about that person - always late, lives on coffee, will not stop talking about their dog - is the one they keep on their desk for three years. Pick the joke you already have about them.

Under a tenner, actually

Mugs start at £12 and tees at £18, so if your limit is a strict £10 you are in mug territory or going in with somebody. Both are fine. What is not fine is spending £30 and making everybody else look cheap.

Order in November, not December

Everything is printed to order, so December is the month when everybody discovers that at once. Free UK shipping on everything, no minimum - but the making takes the time it takes. Mugs are here, clothing here, and if you want a specific in-joke printed, do it yourself.