How to Be a Secret Santa

Series Summary

The holidays are a great time for family and friends to gather and celebrate being together. Whether it is Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's or even Father's day, holidays represent a time for spending time with loved ones, eating good food, throwing fun parties and giving gifts. The holiday season can also be a stressful time with so many decisions to be made about where to go, what to do and what gifts to get for people. In this free video series on holiday celebrations, an experienced event planner explains what to do and what gifts to give on holidays. Find out how to organize a secret Santa or office gift exchange at work and learn about how to find the best Christmas movies. Get tips on buying Father's Day presents or finding the perfect gift for someone who has everything. Reduce holiday stress with information and advice from an event planner in this free video series.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Teri and in this segment I'm going to teach you how to be a good Santa around the office. So as Christmas approaches or the holidays approach, you might want to ask your office if they want to be involved in the Secret Santa. So you find out how many people want to be involved. You write down all their names on a slip of paper, and you put them in a hat or in this case we're going to use a stocking and everyone goes around and picks one. Now the point, oh, I've got Jim, now here's the thing. I can't tell Jim that I have him, that's why it's called Secret Santa. And you do this about a week before the actual office party or big event. And then all week I'm going to do little things for Jim. Like maybe leave a candy cane on his desk in the morning or a little gift on his car. But I don't want him to know that it's me. So I've gotta be really sneaky about it. So nothing obvious, never put your name on anything you give them. And all week everyone's guessing, who's your Secret Santa, who's your Secret Santa and at the end, at the big office party, or whatever you choose to have as a last event, you can give them one final bigger gift and of course then tell them who you are, who the Secret Santa has been all week long. It's a lot of fun to have around the office. It's a good little quirky game and if you know the person really well you can do, give them some really cute, fun gifts. That's how you do Secret Santa around the office."