# Ooh! How about an Ornament Exchange? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116 "2004-11-16T20:20:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/81 "2004-12-08T14:13:24Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > **Elenia** , yours went out in the mail today, thoroughly bubble-wrapped with some tasty treats tossed in. I sent it by Priority, so it should be there by Friday. > > Enjoy! Thanks! Looking forward to it! ---
**Author:** ![Iris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a5b964/32.png) [@Iris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iris)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/82 "2004-12-08T15:30:09Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > My ornament is now on its way to **Iris**! Thanks! I can’t wait! Yours will be mailed tomorrow so hopefully you’ll get it within a week. Just a little hint, your ornaments come from the other side of the pond. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/83 "2004-12-08T15:50:54Z")
My package is going to the post office today at noon, so Congodwarf, you should get it sometime this weekend or early next week! Sorry it took so long. It’s been a pretty busy couple of weeks. The Faerie ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/84 "2004-12-08T17:11:02Z")
**ca3799** , I got your ornament yesterday. It’s so cute! Very Texas-y! It’s a cowboy riding a cow, and you pull a string on the bottom and his legs go up and down! Ca, yours will be in the mail tomorrow. It took me some time to pick out the right one, because all the ones I saw were so generic and boring, but finally, I found something really cute for you! ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/85 "2004-12-09T01:23:24Z")
Okay, has everyone gotten their info? I thought so, then found out that phall hadn’t received hers yet! So hopefully we’re all set. (Except **abbysthrnaccent**. Still gotta email you…) I have ornament(s) that should go out tomorrow. **Logandear** , I got my ornament and it’s beautiful! We don’t have a star for the top of the tree, so we put that one right on the top! Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/86 "2004-12-09T01:50:36Z")
My ornaments (I sent 2) should be arriving Friday, at the latest. I Hope you like them, **politzania**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/87 "2004-12-09T03:04:55Z")
I received my ornament from **Jess** on Monday. It’s a replica of a Revolutionary soldier in full uniform and is really done well. As I already told Jess, it will look perfect on my tree. Coincidentally, Jess said she bought it before she knew who she was exchanging with and it seemed appropriate because of her location. It happens that I live in MA probably 10 or so miles from where the Revolutionary War began. Coincidence or Ornamental Karma??? 🆒 I have purchased mine for Jess, and it’s been patiently waiting for deadline Day to be over to get to the Post Office. We’ll get there tomorrow. Thanks again, **Jess**! And thanks, **bodypoet** for coordinating this in between laundry loads, I would imagine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Izzybella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e56c9b/32.png) [@Izzybella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Izzybella)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/88 "2004-12-09T15:18:51Z")
**Tsarina** , all I can say is WOW! I can’t believe you made that yourself. I love it and it looks really pretty on my tree. Thank you so much. You are very talented and I am, frankly, very lucky. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/89 "2004-12-09T17:18:18Z")
Yay (yee-haw?), Nyctea Scandiaca got the little cowboy I sent! My daughter (8) picked it out! ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/90 "2004-12-09T19:26:35Z")
Ok my ornaments went out today. Sorry so late - I had them last week but with the whole last minute trip to new jersey thing they didn’t make it to the post office until today. Here’s to them taking the FRAGILE markers seriously! #crosses fingers# ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/91 "2004-12-09T19:59:11Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I’m off to the wilderness for a Christmas fair. I’ll stop at the Post Office before I leave civilization, so **Tamarin** ’s cute, little \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ will be on its way. > I’ll be back by Monday, unless I’m eaten by a bear or something. I love, love, love my cute little stained glass snowman. He is so adorable and is perfect for me. Thanks picunurse! I am sorry I’m so late getting yours mailed. I promise it will be in the mail tomorrow. I finally got the ornament today, there was a slight delay with the person who made it for me…but I have it here now, so it’s going out in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Sami41](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@Sami41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sami41)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/92 "2004-12-10T16:32:24Z")
Hey \bodypoet\, I just realized I haven’t gotten an email from you yet. Sorry it took me so long to double check :smack: . I’d hate for someone to miss out if I’m the one who drew their name, so could you please re-send? Thanks. PS, I already bought a great ornament, so I can 2-day mail it so my sendee doesn’t have to wait 'til next year to use it. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/93 "2004-12-10T18:17:25Z")
Sami, I’m sending you rockingchair’s address again, so if you don’t get an email pronto, you might want to drop her a line. Off to email you right now! ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/94 "2004-12-10T18:31:14Z")
That was my “Important Message!!” alert horn. If you haven’t received the info on the ornament exchange, please post here and I will email you! I’ve sent out all info at least once, but some folks haven’t received my emails, and I don’t know who may still be partnerless. I sent ornaments out to Logandear and abbysthrnaccent yesterday, so they should arrive in a couple of days. Hope you like them…you will not be surprised to note that my littlepoets, TBone and the Weeping Princess, helped pick them out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/95 "2004-12-10T19:19:51Z")
Whee! I got my ornaments from a Pennsylvanian who forgot/chose not to reveal hirself… Loved the snowman/candy ball & the Santa Coca-Cola “bottlecap”! Great job picking them out & they are gracing the tree as we speak! Thanks, Secret Santa! ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/96 "2004-12-10T19:24:11Z")
:smack: In reviewing the thread, I realized it’s an _exchange_ - **bodypoet** matched us up in pairs! If I’d looked more closely at the return address, I prob would have figured that out too… :rolleyes: So, many thanks, **Krys92gp** - your ornaments have been purchased & will get mailed out tomorrow! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/97 "2004-12-10T21:28:07Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > **Elenia** , yours went out in the mail today, thoroughly bubble-wrapped with some tasty treats tossed in. I sent it by Priority, so it should be there by Friday. > > Enjoy! Ok I will now and forever love Avarie! Not only did she send a beautiful silver ball with tiny green stones, which matches my tree PERFECTLY - She sent me my MOST FAVORITEST CANDY ever! How did you know I love Reeses Peanut butter Cups? I forgot to put them in the other thread, but they are also addictive to me. I opened the box, and that’s the first thing I saw! THANK YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/98 "2004-12-10T21:46:09Z")
I sent mine out to **phall0106** today, so hopefully she will get them early next week. Still no sign of an ornament over here- I hope **phall** got the info the second time around! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/99 "2004-12-13T16:39:24Z")
I sent mine out last week… ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-how-about-an-ornament-exchange/275116/100 "2004-12-13T17:14:29Z")
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