Chrissie Swan doesn’t think much of the Kris Kringle.
In fact, the radio host has dubbed the popular gift exchange practice the “great landfill experiment”.
“It’s just rubbish every single year,” Swan told The Herald Sun.
The media personality’s major problem with Secret Santa is the low budget often set by the organisers of present-giving circle.
“If you cap a present at $20 or $30, which is what we do at the workplace, it really limits what sort of quality stuff you can get,” the 43-year-old said.
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I wouldn't give a charity gift to anyone who hadn't expressly asked for one. What does the recipient get out of a donation gift? The knowledge that someone else's money has gone to a charity they didn't choose...but in their name? That doesn't seem like much of a gift to me. A gift is more than just spending money and that's really the only thing a donation gift has in common with a traditional gift.
I'm not anti-charity at all. When I can donate, I happily do. But I choose my own charities and I donate in my own name. I don't choose charities for other people and donate in their names.
Very little "charity" goes to the intended recipients. The majority of the money goes to administration, wages, advertising, new computers every year, frivolous things like you would not believe! I and others i know have seen what really goes on with these help starving third world kids type charities, and it's shocking.