# Is anyone interested in a Secret Santa this year 2025? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998 "2025-09-12T23:49:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/61 "2025-11-18T03:37:51Z")
ETA: @Baker ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/62 "2025-11-18T15:21:32Z")
Yeah, I’m not sure what’s going on - I can’t seem to get a PM _or_ an e-mail to @Baker! ---
**Author:** ![FMera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fmera/32/9857_2.png) [@FMera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FMera)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/63 "2025-11-18T16:05:53Z")
Thank you @Nayna, for allowing me to participate! My likes are below… > [@2024 Secret Santa is on!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2024-secret-santa-is-on/1010427/34): > > i love funny (haha not uh oh), puzzles, magic (illusions/prestidigitation), purple (the colour not film), tea, dragonflies, manatees, whales, motorsport, games (board or logic not MMO), driving fast, garden (zone 10), crunchy + salty sh\*t (snacks not lifestyle… ok though i do like salty language). > > i don’t need “stuff” so something local or unique is ideal! i prefer anything that is different…but some people call my “different” ugly, weird or ‘quirky’. 😉 My dislikes: meat products, okra, and black licorice or anise flavours. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/64 "2025-11-18T16:47:32Z")
OMG! Is it too late? I haven’t been on the boards in ages, but I usually don’t miss Secret Santa. If it’s not too late, here’s my info! I would love to receive something hand made by my Secret Santa, or made in or native to where my Santa lives. San Francisco Giants and San Jose Sharks are my teams In general, I love gardening, knitting/crochet, bats, corvids, coffee, Fiestaware. I am allergic to kiwi and pineapple; don’t like coconut or mushrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/65 "2025-11-18T17:04:12Z")
OMG! Is it too late? I haven’t been on the boards in ages, but I usually don’t miss Secret Santa. If it’s not too late, here’s my info! I would love to receive something hand made by my Secret Santa, or made in or native to where my Santa lives. San Francisco Giants and San Jose Sharks are my teams In general, I love gardening, knitting/crochet, bats, corvids, coffee, Fiestaware. I am allergic to kiwi and pineapple; don’t like coconut or mushrooms. Edit: yes to adult beverages, esp if local ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/66 "2025-11-18T20:53:53Z")
@Rhiannon8404, you’re in! Please e-mail me at [klgould5@gmail.com](mailto:klgould5@gmail.com) to confirm your real name and address. And that’s officially the cutoff, folks. Shop away! ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/67 "2025-11-18T20:59:11Z")
Done! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/68 "2025-11-19T22:50:42Z")
FIRST! I shipped my last package today. I love shopping for my person, I always stress so much about getting things mailed out in time. Now that’s over with and I can sit back and enjoy reading about everyone’s packages 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/69 "2025-11-19T23:13:17Z")
Damn! My person’s items won’t even reach _me_ until Friday. You’re making the rest of us look bad! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/70 "2025-11-19T23:20:11Z")
YES! Look at me impressing people for once!!! Honestly? The covid Secret Santa totally killed my trust in the USPS. I paid many extra pennies for three day delivery and got two and a half week delivery instead. I stressed every day it was late and vowed to not let it happen again. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/71 "2025-11-19T23:20:46Z")
I got my person! Squee! I will say that my package won’t go out until probably the 8th or the 9th. There’s big craft fair filled with local homemade goodies the preceding weekend and I want to snoop the vendors for suitable Secret Santa gifts before finalizing my box. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/72 "2025-11-20T19:20:09Z")
I also want to check out our "Handmade Arcade” on December 5 before mailing. @Baker? You good? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/73 "2025-11-21T04:20:15Z")
Yes. I got my name ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/74 "2025-11-24T07:59:10Z")
Oh, I will be sending north and it’s getting into winter so if I send something like chocolate I hope it survives. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/75 "2025-11-24T17:34:03Z")
Better cold weather than hot weather for chocolate! I’m sure it’ll be fine. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/76 "2025-11-25T00:33:14Z")
I did send the package today, via UPS, to the Mitten state, I would go ahead and open it as it does have food in it;. the chocolate, ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/77 "2025-11-27T07:09:10Z")
I got something from Kansas (“hi, Dorothy!”) but have not opened it yet. If this box is from my Santa, please know it has been retrieved to safety, and sits quietly because Thanksgiving is not a day to open presents …. nah, I may change my mind. I have not obtained everything I wanna send to my recipient, but I’m workin’ on it. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/78 "2025-11-29T00:22:03Z")
Package sent today! Friday, 11/28. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/79 "2025-11-29T00:39:09Z")
I have been told by my recipient that their packages have arrived. I am happy. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/80 "2025-11-29T01:47:25Z")
Every time I try to get to the post office to send my box I get get called in to work. I’ll try again tomorrow. Never fear, Santa Recipient. Your package will get to you if I have to drive it there myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998.md?page=5)