# Secret Santa 2002! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363 "2002-11-12T03:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/41 "2002-11-13T23:51:32Z")
Oh I love this one… I’m in. As for my wish list? Um… a good book of the sci-fi/fantasy/classical philosophy persuasion. cool socks interesting earrings of the reasonably small and metal persuasion (and not likely to mess with me…sensitive ears.) anything fun or chocolate like ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/42 "2002-11-14T00:01:14Z")
I’m in, I’ve had so much fun with these…my THIRD Secret Santa Project. What I Would Like: Stuff. White elephant-type items are exceedingly welcome, but only if they are especially tacky. Or, if you have any old costume jewellry around, especially if they have glass beads…I would love that sort of thing. Or something cute and local. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/43 "2002-11-14T00:23:29Z")
Oh shoot. My real life name is a little ambiguous. To whoever gets me, I’m female. I tend to like books, especially mysteries, science fiction and curiosities, puzzles, bath stuff, candles, and just about anything from Pier 1 Imports. I’ll also echo **Billdo** and say that something from your hometown would be fun, too. Now, how do I wrap a pahn a chipchopped ham an’ 'at? 😉 CJ ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/44 "2002-11-14T04:42:00Z")
Heh. I actually understand Pittsburghese, but I don’t knoe that I ever encountered chipchopped ham. So, here’s who I’ve gotten emails from so far: \*\*Baker Beagledave Biggirl Billdo Biotop Brynda Caught@Work Cherry Chiefhardcrab Chique CJHoworth CrankyAsAnOldMan Czarcasm DaToad DaveW0071 Dazzling White Diamonds Encinitas Erika Ethilrist FairyChatMom Geobabe Jane D’oh! Kat Lainaf LordJim Mlerose Monty2 MsRobyn Quasimodem Racer72 RickQ RJK Rocking Chair Runadoc Scotticher Scout1222 Shirley Ujest Tansu Tisiphone Tripler TruePisces Twickster47 Ultress UncleBill Vanilla Washte Whatmove \*\* If you’re not on the list and you emailed me, please email again. And thanks to those who have offered to ship internationally if necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/45 "2002-11-14T05:18:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Gee, I hope some other Aussies turn up soon, or I’ll be all by myself I’ll help you out Caught@Work. I will bet we are not the only Aussie Dopers who end up taking part, but I can’t leave a fellow countryman springing for international shipping 🙂 I am not back on email until December 2 though. I am off on my awfully big adventure. Just as an aside, are we talking $10 US or $10 local to wherever you happen to be? Either way is fine, just so I know 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![skittles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/46 "2002-11-14T16:13:46Z")
I’m in - and the email has been sent! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/47 "2002-11-14T16:15:16Z")
Incidentally, I’m willing to take an overseas recipient - I think I can swing the postage. ---
**Author:** ![\_etalhea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/779978/32.png) [@\_etalhea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_etalhea)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/48 "2002-11-14T16:53:48Z")
Are Pagans allowed to participate? I’ve been here a long time, but I mostly lurk, nobody talks to me much, I figure this might be my “in” to the tight-nit SDMB crowd! Besides, who’s to say Santa doesn’t visit the little pagan children a few days early (Yule) anyway! ---
**Author:** ![skittles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@skittles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skittles)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/49 "2002-11-14T17:11:12Z")
\*\* //\etalhea|)\*\* anyone is allowed to participate. So that means you too! 🙂 And don’t worry about people not talking to you much - they don’t to me either. But I did get some very helpful ideas in a thread I started recently. So sit back, and wait for your little bundle in the mail! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/50 "2002-11-14T17:49:43Z")
It’s $10 American. Or… 9.95653 Euros 15.7475 Canadian dollars 6.33376 British pounds 1,203.82 yen 17.7640 Australian dollars 20.7400 Fiji dollars 46.9624 Israel new shekels 37.9999 Malaysia ringgits It’s just a guideline, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![dcordell1960](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@dcordell1960](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcordell1960)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/51 "2002-11-14T18:04:39Z")
I haven’t posted much but I would like to particpate. OK?? Chillin’ in Minnesota ---
**Author:** ![Shera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Shera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shera)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/52 "2002-11-14T18:06:57Z")
I am in. e-mail had been sent. Woohoo presents! ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/53 "2002-11-14T23:56:49Z")
Bring it on. 😃 For the record I like celtic and western stuff(duh). I’m also a voracious reader, any genre. Among the crap I collect are wolves, Daisy duck and Kermit the Frog stuff, Legos and shot glasses. Looking forward to making someone smile. One way or another. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/54 "2002-11-15T00:12:21Z")
Yah - I’m in - presents are fun. I like books - Margaret Atwood, Barbara Gowdy, Wally Lamb - that sort of thing. I like glass (you know - those glass figureens) although that might be tricky to mail. I like bunnies. I like frogs. I like fish. I’m E-Z. Um - not to be grinchy, but I’m not a really X-mas ornamenty kind of gal, unless it can go on the tree. I have limited storage and don’t really have space for stuff that only comes out for a month a year. 🙂 Thanks! Also - **PLEEEEEEEEEEEESE** people - post some sort of wish list. I never heard a peep from my person last year, tried desperately to think of something she would like, and then never heard weather she got it, liked it or anything. I assume she hated it, although I did try very hard. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/55 "2002-11-15T00:47:18Z")
OK, since we’re offering suggestions too - I’d love anything peculiar to the area of the sender. That would mean the most to me. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/56 "2002-11-15T02:10:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*It’s $10 American. Or… > \>snip\< > It’s just a guideline, anyway. \*\* Aw, the way I look at it, guidelines are MADE to be broken! 🙂 See, the way I look at it has always been this… You take the $10.00 guideline, and you go shopping. Then, when you see something your Secret Santa giftee just HAS to have, you figure out how much pleasure it is going to give YOU to give them…whatever it is that strikes you…and then you figure in how much it is worth to give them…whatever it is…and then you decide if the extra money is worth the pleasure you are going to have in sending it. Anything over ten dollars is NOT breaking the guidlines, it is a gift you are giving yourself. See? Easy! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/57 "2002-11-15T02:21:38Z")
Boy, the exchange rate on Malaysia ringgits really sucks, doesn’t it? Ruins my holiday plans, I’m tellin ya. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/58 "2002-11-15T02:34:36Z")
I’m in. Like others have mentioned, something unique to the area of my SS would be cool. I can’t really think of anything else, mainly 'cause when I asked my Dad if he wanted a Xmas list from me, he said, _“Well, I was planning on giving you money.”_:rolleyes: 😉 😛 😃 Plus, it’s going to be hard as this is the first Christmas since my mom died back in March. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/59 "2002-11-15T03:21:09Z")
For a wish list, to help my giver: Chocolate is always nice Crystals, the kind hung in the window to catch the spectrum Cat stuff Or, as others have said, something that represents your area ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363/60 "2002-11-15T04:16:24Z")
I’m in! And I’ll do international if needed! I hope I’m as lucky this year as I was last year! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2002/136363.md?page=4)