# Does anyone feel like White Elephanting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310 "2005-08-30T19:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CantUseMyRealName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@CantUseMyRealName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CantUseMyRealName)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/61 "2005-09-08T23:11:07Z")
i’m in. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/62 "2005-09-09T16:11:14Z")
Great! The list is growing. Sometime when I don’t have a grant deadling looming, I’ll post an updated list - FWIW, I have e-mails from everyone who’s posted here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/63 "2005-09-12T22:02:50Z")
Bump. 5 days left to sign up people! Imagine - a box full of CRAP! How can anyone possibly resist?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/64 "2005-09-12T22:30:17Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Bump. 5 days left to sign up people! > > Imagine - a box full of CRAP! How can anyone possibly resist?? 😃 Hell, if you made us pay money and hung a sign on the post that said “Yard Sale” you’d need to beat us off with a stick… ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/65 "2005-09-13T03:14:36Z")
I’m all signed up to send and recieve. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/66 "2005-09-17T04:59:14Z")
Last chance people! Come one! Come all! The greatest exchange of crap on earth! Yes, I do take myself WAAAY too seriously… ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/67 "2005-09-17T10:29:58Z")
Box is by my side, and half full. Cool stuff. I hope I get a girl. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/68 "2005-09-17T10:53:23Z")
Just this morning when I took the dog out, I noticed the box I had set aside for Goodwill - I bet there’s some cool stuff in there… hehehe ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/69 "2005-09-17T11:42:22Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Last chance people! > > Come one! Come all! The greatest exchange of crap on earth! > Yes, I do take myself WAAAY too seriously… I’m in - but today’s 9/20 - i thought i was too late email sent ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/70 "2005-09-17T11:43:48Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Box is by my side, and half full. Cool stuff. I hope I get a girl. honestly, pic, i really don’t think anyone would throw awa…er…‘white elephant’ a girl… 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/71 "2005-09-17T12:18:56Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > I’m in - but today’s 9/20 - i thought i was too late > email sent Where is it 9/20? Here in Maryland, it’s 9/17. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/72 "2005-09-17T15:28:26Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Where is it 9/20? Here in Maryland, it’s 9/17. I realize that…now no idea what I was thinking - _last month_ the 20th was a Saturday, but that’s too easy to be the answer But - I got in - now I just have to chose which cr…er…lovely article to send ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/73 "2005-09-18T05:54:13Z")
Ok, I’m officially closed! Expect your e-mails sometime tomorrow evening - I have some yutzin’ around to do, and then I’m on it! wOOt! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/74 "2005-09-18T06:56:51Z")
Ok - the e-mails are sent. Hopefully I haven’t fouled things up too badly. If you don’t receive an e-mail, let me know, K? You could send me an e-mail and also post here, SVP. Thanks guys! I’m off to get my package ready to send to my poor hapless victim… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/75 "2005-09-18T07:10:35Z")
Is the person I’m sending to the same person I’m recieving from? OR am I allowed to know that? Anyway mine wont be sent out till wed morn if that matters. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/76 "2005-09-18T11:05:06Z")
Got my recipient - I think I have an appropriate shipping container in the basement, so I shall try to get it filled today and to the post office tomorrow. Wonder if there’s a box big enough for the purple thing??? hehehe ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/77 "2005-09-18T11:11:47Z")
Ohboyohboyohboy! Got me box right here. I’m making a list of what’s in the box, and what it is/how it works. so far the list has 27 things. It should be off tomorrow. **Shirley Ujest** you are going to be so pi… I mean so happy to get my jun… I mean my treasures. I was prepared to put my noisy kitty in the box earlier today, but you already have a kitty, so I didn’t. Besides, I love her even if she is making my ears bleed. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/78 "2005-09-18T11:14:19Z")
Got mine too… I’m actively mulling over the final selection of “treasures” to send off. Thanks for organizing this, **alice**! GT ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/79 "2005-09-18T11:54:07Z")
I’ve got my vict…er…recipient. But I won’t have a chance to send the parcel off until at least Saturday (9/24) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310/80 "2005-09-18T13:20:20Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > . > **Shirley Ujest** you are going to be so pi… I mean so happy to get my jun… I mean my treasures. > I was prepared to put my noisy kitty in the box earlier today, but you already have a kitty, so I didn’t. Besides, I love her even if she is making my ears bleed. Hey, keep your pussy to yourself!! 😃 Ooooooh, I just got my White Elephantee …Mwuahhahahahahahahahahha! Someone nearish to the east coast is gonna be feelin’ some luv’ soon. :::::::::::::::::runs off gleefully::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-feel-like-white-elephanting/319310.md?page=5)