Well, everybody, it's time we got this rolling. With the blessing of the Prime Minister, we are holding a Secret Santa, this year. "What is this all about?", you ask. Let me tell you:
If you want to get in on the Secret Santa, sign up in this thread by 11:59 p.m., November 15th (Edited to extend window). Then, please send me a PM with your screen name, real name, shipping address, phone, and email address. Other than phone, the rest of the information will be provided to your Secret Santa, who will use that info to send you your gift. The phone number is in case of untoward events. Let's keep it to $50 USD, maximum, plus shipping. email is provided for those persons who want to send a gift certificate, or some such item. I won't be taking notice of country of residence of recipients, as the match is fully blind, via an Excel spreadsheet, and random.org, for random number generation. If your recipient is in another country, there are lots of ways to shop domestically, via amazon's country page, or online shopping with retailers located there, which avoids shipping delays and customs problems.
I will send out the names no later than November 17th, though probably on the 16th. then you can research your recipient, come up with a gift idea, and shop for it. Try to avoid having something drop-shipped to your house from, say, China, for example, with the hopes of re-sending it to your recipient. That is fraught with peril of delivery failure before Christmas. When your gift is on its way to your recipient, please pm me that your gift has been sent. That way I can track that everything is running as hoped for.
When your gift arrives, you have the choice of opening on arrival, or waiting until your usual gift opening, according to your family tradition. (I hate waiting!
) Then you can post up that your gift has arrived, so that your Secret Santa knows that it got there safely. If it did not, for some reason, please let me know, in the conversation thread in which you previously sent your info, so that arrangements can be made.
So, all Secret Santas, and Harry Hannukahs, (and Krampuses. Krampi?) will have sent and received a gift before Christmas, if all goes as planned.
That's how it works.
If you are interested, post up here, with that interest, and send me a PM with your info. Most important of all, have fun with it, everybody.
If you want to get in on the Secret Santa, sign up in this thread by 11:59 p.m., November 15th (Edited to extend window). Then, please send me a PM with your screen name, real name, shipping address, phone, and email address. Other than phone, the rest of the information will be provided to your Secret Santa, who will use that info to send you your gift. The phone number is in case of untoward events. Let's keep it to $50 USD, maximum, plus shipping. email is provided for those persons who want to send a gift certificate, or some such item. I won't be taking notice of country of residence of recipients, as the match is fully blind, via an Excel spreadsheet, and random.org, for random number generation. If your recipient is in another country, there are lots of ways to shop domestically, via amazon's country page, or online shopping with retailers located there, which avoids shipping delays and customs problems.
I will send out the names no later than November 17th, though probably on the 16th. then you can research your recipient, come up with a gift idea, and shop for it. Try to avoid having something drop-shipped to your house from, say, China, for example, with the hopes of re-sending it to your recipient. That is fraught with peril of delivery failure before Christmas. When your gift is on its way to your recipient, please pm me that your gift has been sent. That way I can track that everything is running as hoped for.
When your gift arrives, you have the choice of opening on arrival, or waiting until your usual gift opening, according to your family tradition. (I hate waiting!
) Then you can post up that your gift has arrived, so that your Secret Santa knows that it got there safely. If it did not, for some reason, please let me know, in the conversation thread in which you previously sent your info, so that arrangements can be made.So, all Secret Santas, and Harry Hannukahs, (and Krampuses. Krampi?) will have sent and received a gift before Christmas, if all goes as planned.
That's how it works.
If you are interested, post up here, with that interest, and send me a PM with your info. Most important of all, have fun with it, everybody.
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