21 White Elephant Gifts You'll Want to Steal Back

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If you're going to be subjected to a White Elephant/Secret Santa gift exchange by coworkers, friends, or your book club, you might as well bring something worth stealing back. We found 21 gifts worth doing just that, priced from $2 to $48.

Among our picks are winter skin-healing Josie Maran argan oil, a fair trade clutch by Proud Mary, a handful of pretty notebooks and stationery, and one bafflingly good-looking gilded pretzel bottle opener (trust us on this one).

$10 & Under

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• Nippon Kodo charcoal cleansing bar, $2
• Pixapet, $10
• Anthropologie pretzel bottle opener, $10
• ASOS wallet, $8
• Kala Soaps, $9
• Baublebar round gem studs, $10 (from $32)
• Ole Henriksen The Clean Truth cleansing duo, $10

$25 & Under

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• One Hundred Print by John Jannuzzi for Of a Kind, $20
• Restoration Hardware apron, $20 (from $29)
• Richer Poorer for Poketo socks, $12
• Greenwich Letterpress enamel pins, $12 each
• Sephora Favorites Cleansing Ritual To Go, $20
• Kate Spade New York mini notebook, $14
• Rifle Paper Co. stationery set, $22 for 12 cards with envelopes

$50 & Under

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• Josie Maran Winter Dreams argan skincare collection, $39
• Graphic Image notebook, $39.50
• Proud Mary clutch, $38
• Kahina argan soap trio, $48
• Verloop hat, $30
• Hasami mug, $26
• Welcome Companions leather handbag charm, $40

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