# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 9
**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:** [December 28, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/161 "2025-12-28T18:56:04Z")
Thank you, thank you for the lovely gifts @Rhiannon8404 ! [@everyone](https://boards.straightdope.com/groups/everyone) : Would you believe - my Santa this year is the same person as last year? (Long-time SDMB Santas: has this ever happened to you?) i received all locally made: daytime tea (delicious) + nighttime tea (loved and needed!); a sunflower puzzle (fun and quite lovely); bottle of lemon olive oil a Sacramento holiday ornament; another awesome Edward Gorey card; a bag of handmade spiced nuts (my favourite!); and… a ziploc of hollyhock seeds from their own garden! Best gifts received this year. 💜💜💜 ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/162 "2025-12-29T14:36:19Z")
I didn’t even notice that I gave you the same Santa as last year! That’s funny. Okay, by my notes I have one gift not yet sent, and two gifts not yet received. Next year I’ll make a note to tag everyone who has ever participated in a SDMB Secret Santa that I’ve organized (from 2023 on): JaneDoe42, rocking\_chair, hocow, Baker, Rhiannon8404, purplehorseshoe, carnut, CairoCarol, Czarcasm, FairyChatMom, FMera, Kitten\_Mitten, Rilchiam, WOOKINPANUBv.2, Lancia, Reeses\_Monkey, Sticks\_and\_Scones, scudsucker, Filbert, and Reply. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/163 "2026-01-07T17:27:01Z")
Checking in! This is still true, as far as I know: I have one gift not yet sent, and two gifts not yet received. If you haven’t sent a gift to your Secret Santa yet, or if you have sent it and haven’t received any confirmation in this thread that it has been received, please let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/164 "2026-01-07T18:34:07Z")
Thank you @Nayna! I am not sure if my recipient got all the parts yet. The tracking info shows they were delivered, so hopefully they did? In total there should’ve been: - 5 separate gift items shipped in 3 packages - 1 postcard sent separately To my recipient: I’m very sorry for the hassle! My bad on this — I was trying to save on international shipping this way to focus on the actual gifts, but it ended up being unnecessarily confusing. I’ll know better for next time. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/165 "2026-02-26T18:43:08Z")
Checking in, finally got my Xmas gift. South African postage is… less than amazing.. and I am not often at my sister’s house, to which it was delivered I sent you one, but US customs bitched about it and sent it back… I have a few things to repackage and resend. I made two mistakes, I sent food (tradional rooibos tea) and local chocolate, neither of which are allowed by the US customs. I have a few things still to give, and will get more. But I am afraid this might be an extraordinarily late Xmas present. I am on it, though. Please stay hopeful. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/166 "2026-02-26T19:18:07Z")
i’m glad this got bumped, i’ve been meaning to tell rilchiam… i did enjoy the book! ms rendell writes good, disturbing stories. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/167 "2026-02-27T04:09:54Z")
Terrific! Glad to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/168 "2026-02-27T15:06:38Z")
Thanks, @scudsucker! Last I heard, @Lancia was still waiting for a gift. Did that arrive? ---
**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:** [February 27, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/169 "2026-02-27T18:51:34Z")
No, I have not recieved anything yet. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2026, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/170 "2026-02-28T10:36:48Z")
> [@Nayna](#): > > Thanks, @scudsucker! At this rate, you might expect Xmas in July! I have got some things which should be innocuous for US Customs. I am still very much on the job, trying to locate more “import friendly” things, and I might pop into the US Embassy to get their opinion - which might be met with bemusement - but it is way past Xmas, so I feel guilty. Especially as I collected my own from my sister recently, and was richly awarded. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/171 "2026-03-01T15:25:11Z")
I will send a second present if someone has not got one. It’s fun to pick out gifts. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2026, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/172 "2026-03-20T01:09:28Z")
I got home yesterday to find a package on my doorstep with a note from a neighbor that it had been mistakenly delivered to her house some indeterminate number of days before. The box was from the wonderful **Baker!** In it were: Two books. The first: a travel guide of sorts to Kansas; essentially a list of cool “bucket list” items one shouldn’t miss. The second: a cookbook for honey lovers. This is an awesome choice as I have a friend who is a beekeeper and I get some seriously primo honey from him but other than smearing a bit on English muffins or corn bread I’ve never been able to figure out what to do with it so this book is going to be a great addition to my collection. A coffee mug with various scenic Kansas images on it. A bottle of Kansas City’s Own Gates BBQ Sauce. And last but _certainly_ not least, a thick, warm crocheted afghan of _beautiful_ bright colors. We’re suffering through a rather oppressive heatwave here in the PNW so the afghan is currently folded on the back of the couch being silently fought over by the two diva cats. When the weather cools down I’ll be happily stealing it from them. Thank you **Baker** so, so much!! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998/173 "2026-03-22T02:02:32Z")
Glad you like it. I do the afghans so I will have gifts to send. And I love my state. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-interested-in-a-secret-santa-this-year-2025/1022998.md?page=8)