# SDMB Valentine's Day Exchange 2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816 "2016-01-21T20:23:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/21 "2016-01-31T18:37:20Z")
Hello, all. We’ve got some new people signed up. I’ll extend the deadline to midnight tonight if anyone new wants to sign up. Tomorrow I’ll organize the list of who sends to whom, and have the list out tomorrow evening (Eastern time) at the latest. Thanks, all! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/22 "2016-02-01T15:01:40Z")
All right, addresses have been sent out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/23 "2016-02-01T16:05:17Z")
I got mine!! Thanks so much for doing this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/24 "2016-02-01T16:38:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I got mine!! Thanks so much for doing this. 🙂 Ditto on both counts. This is like being in elementary school only better because at least this time I know I’ll get some :(😛 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/25 "2016-02-01T16:41:11Z")
I checked each address list carefully, but let me know if there’s any error in the addresses you received (incomplete addresses, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/26 "2016-02-01T18:45:40Z")
Is it too late for me to get in? I’ll send you a peem just in case. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/27 "2016-02-02T02:24:46Z")
Address lists have already been assigned, **missred,** but I sent you a list of addresses and I sent your address to those who said they could send cards to many people. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/28 "2016-02-02T18:36:50Z")
Thanks **Emily**! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/29 "2016-02-03T14:00:17Z")
You’re welcome 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/30 "2016-02-05T13:40:02Z")
Mine are in the mail! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/31 "2016-02-06T23:43:00Z")
I’ll be sending mine out soon. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/32 "2016-02-09T13:41:46Z")
I got all mine sent out yesterday. Sorry that some of them may reach their destination slightly after Valentine’s Day, but I hope you guys will like them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/33 "2016-02-09T15:06:49Z")
I sent mine out yesterday, too. I got yours, faithfool! 🙂 I lovelovelove the little “fortuneteller” thingie. We used to make them in school all the time, mostly to predict who we would marry. So cute! I had forgotten all about them. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/34 "2016-02-09T18:02:15Z")
Mine are sent as well. \ \*I \*want a fortune teller! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/35 "2016-02-09T18:30:22Z")
Mine were dropped in the blue box Saturday, so most of y’all should see one soon. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/36 "2016-02-09T19:22:15Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I sent mine out yesterday, too. > > I got yours, faithfool! 🙂 I lovelovelove the little “fortuneteller” thingie. We used to make them in school all the time, mostly to predict who we would marry. So cute! I had forgotten all about them. Glad you liked it. That’s why I did those. So much fun from my childhood. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Mine are sent as well. > > \ \*I \*want a fortune teller! Be patient, Obi Wan. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/37 "2016-02-10T00:13:38Z")
I got my firstValentine in the mail today! I love the fortune teller **faithfool**. ❤ ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/38 "2016-02-10T00:47:03Z")
The fortune teller is one of those cool things that kids from all over teach other kids. Like hopscotch, jump rope, red rover, ring around the rosy. Please tell me that kids still do these things with no adult interference. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/39 "2016-02-10T02:03:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The fortune teller is one of those cool things that kids from all over teach other kids. Like hopscotch, jump rope, red rover, ring around the rosy. Please tell me that kids still do these things with no adult interference. And don’t forget cat’s cradle! Back to fortune tellers, remember making them out of your notebook paper? You’d first have to fold them to tear of the long end so as to leave yourself with a square and then fold, fold, fold, writing all the numbers and colors in the corresponding colored Bic banana colored felt tip. Oy, am I old. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816/40 "2016-02-10T03:18:15Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > And don’t forget cat’s cradle! > > Back to fortune tellers, remember making them out of your notebook paper? You’d first have to fold them to tear of the long end so as to leave yourself with a square and then fold, fold, fold, writing all the numbers and colors in the corresponding colored Bic banana colored felt tip. Oy, am I old. Oh, honey, I’m older than you are-- no felt tip pens when I was in grade school, only pencils and ball point pens. There were big fat Magic Markers (but no Sharpies yet). I definitely remember the cat’s cradle. I remember when playing hopscotch, it was important to find a marker that you could aim, but that wouldn’t bounce out of the square when it landed. Linked together giant paper clips, or bobby pins (remember those?), were good, and also a plain [chain](http://www.commemorativedogtags.com/Images/Chain%20Only.gif) that you would wad up and toss. I’ll bet none of you remembers the kind of [skates](https://img1.etsystatic.com/001/0/7008807/il_570xN.364037057_mssc.jpg)that clamped onto your shoes. And you wore the skate key around your neck on a long shoelace. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-valentines-day-exchange-2016/743816.md?page=3)