It’s getting to be that time of year – and I’d love a repeat of this charming Doper tradition.
For those who haven’t participated before, here’s the drill:
You send your (IRL) name and address to the Designated Recipient of Names and Addresses. He or she makes up lists with this information to distribute. Last year, we had 30 or 35 people total, so we broke it down to two lists to keep it doable – you’re welcome to be on both lists if you want to send out that many valentines.
Once you get the list, you send a valentine (homemade, if you’re cool, like cranky or [ahem] me, but storebought “nice” and storebought “dollar store” are also more than okay) to each person on the list.
Then you sit back and wait for your mailbox to fill with greetings from all over the country! the continent! the world! (Yes, Canadian Dopers are welcome to participate – international Dopers as well, but it’s going to cost you a lot more in postage than it’s going to cost us.)
Cheap thrills, but LOTS of fun.
I was Designated Recipient of Names and Addresses last year, but that seems to be a rotating position, so if someone else would like to volunteer, I’d be happy to relinquish the position. IIRC, it took me an hour or two to put the lists together and email them out, it’s not a big deal.
Oops, sorry UncleBeer – plus I should have contacted a mod before posting this. :smack: Thanks for not yelling at me, I really do know better than that!
In fact, I’ll volunteer to manage the list! Anybody who wants to take part, please email me. My address is in my profile; please start the email topic with SD: so I know to pay attention to that email.
I’ll keep each mailing list to about 20 people. If you want to be on multiple lists, please say so in your email.
Please email me by Feb. 7. I’ll send out the lists on Feb. 8.
Yay Scuba_Ben! You da man! Thanks for stepping up to the plate on this.
(BTW – the perk of being the Designated Recipient of Names and Addresses is that you can put your name on both lists, even if you’re only going to send to one – at least, no one seemed to object when I announced that I was doing so last year.)
Resisting the chance to get a bunch of valentines from a bunch of Dopers was like resisting the chance to have an extremely attractive and naked man be my houseslave (though not necessarily for the same reasons).
Thanks for the early responses! So far, we have 17 people on the list. (Hey guys – this is your big chance to get romantic letters from many doper women! Sign right up!)
Yippee! I signed up! I have the stuff to make handmade cards. I’m not that GOOD at it, but I really like doing it. I was thinking Valentine’s day would be a good time to make some cool ones. Now I have a good reason!
