You know, what every teacher or office worker gets as Christmas gifts? A ceramic mug with a scene or a joke on it filled with candy or with a stuffed animal crammed into it.
So what did you get? Extra points awarded if Thomas Kincaid is involved.
Me: From a work gift exchange - The mug had Santa playing golf in the snow and it was stuffed with golf tees.
I got a tall mug, wider at the top than at the bottom, rather tame seasonal/Christmas-y patterns on it, filled with a packet of instant cocoa, a candy cane, and various chocolates.
Quite a great gift.
Sequential thread titles just spotted:
"What was the nastiest thing you forced yourself to eat "
"Crap in a coffee cup… "
A real neat stainless steel ‘swiss knife’ with 8 thingy-do’s including a large and small conventional blades. [“Made in China”]
Beats a coffe cup any day. Have too many already and my pride and joy was a Chicago Cubs cup with the blue stripes all around and it went to coffee cup heaven when it got knocked of the table.
“Beware of the Cog”
When I was in Vancouver I picked up some cute wooden slugs (the slimy garden kind) that were carved so they could be hung on the rim of a coffee mug. After that it was just a matter of finding a mug with a suitable degree of slugginess.
One year: five rubber luggage tags to share among the five of us.
The next year: a 39-cent mini finger nail clipper with the company’s logo.
The year after that: leftover calendars that sales-scum dropped off at the main office throughout the month of December…
Since my only career is a full-time mom, I don’t get crappy gifts from the company. However, if I may be permitted to hijack slightly, and tell you what I got my daughters’ teachers: a smallish Christmas-themed tin (bought at the Goodwill for under a buck each) and inside the tins are a Blockbuster gift card, a packet of microwave popcorn, and two envelopes of hot cocoa mix. A note inside says it’s a “date night in a box” and that I hope they will use it to enjoy a relaxing evening at home.
You must be male if you have never received the other workplace standard…
CANDLES!
ducks and hides from Yankee Candle fans
I got a great gift. I love cooking so at work secret santa got me a chili bush with plenty of chilis on it already. Of course I now have to buy potting mix and a pot, and then repot the thing. Stuff it. Maybe I’ll just throw it in the garbage.
Hee. I actually bought the cup o’crap for one teacher of my son’s that I don’t like. 
His other teachers got more personalized gifts, a toy magnet construction set for one, and an awesome wooden nutcracker for the other. Both items were related to experiences my son had enjoyed with the teachers and both emailed their thanks immediately. Haven’t heard from the mug recipient yet.