# Secret Santa 2003! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 13, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041 "2003-11-13T16:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/221 "2003-12-11T00:47:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \* > \*\*If your giftee’s wish list was really vague (“oh, anything is fine”) or there’s none at all, do what I did: > > Look through some of their other posts. > > People tell a **lot** about themselves on these boards. I was able to find out whether or not my giftee had pets, their religion, and some of their hobbies and likes/dislikes. It’s a good thing I found some of the information I did, because I was considering sending them something that I found out they wouldn’t have liked at all! \*\* If you giftee is a newbie you can read ALL of their posts. Like I did this year. And Last year. I always seem to get the newbies. Oh well. Been sick for a week so I’d better get on the ball. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/222 "2003-12-11T01:06:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hopefool \* > \*\*Sigh. I know the feeling. It’s gonna be one of those years, isn’t it? ☹ > > But just know, that one Doper will definitely be thinking of you and wishing you well on this lousy, ahem, I mean lovely, holiday. \*\* Yeah, my first. But far it be from me to whine about it. I’m sure there are others who have it just as bad and are not getting anything. This will also be my first Christmas alone. With family or…well…someone to hold or love… But I deal. Even this shall pass. 🙂 Thank you for your thoughts. I will be doing the same for you, kind soul. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/223 "2003-12-11T04:10:39Z")
Just ordered my gift, it should go out tomorrow!!! I hope they like it. I wish I could have had it the gift sent here to me first, so I could have wrapped it, but there’s no time because my giftee is way too far away. It wouldn’t get there in time for Christmas. So, Secret Santa victim, I’m sorry your gift won’t reach you wrapped ☹ When do we tell whose name we got, anyway? There’s no way they’re gonna know who I am by my return address, assuming that the gift shop puts my address on the package, which they probably won’t … ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/224 "2003-12-11T14:02:04Z")
My gift goes out today! My giftee posted a wish list, so I know they’ll like what they’re getting. I’m enclosing a brief note to my giftee, to add a personal touch. That way they’ll know who I am. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/225 "2003-12-11T14:08:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \* > \*\*When do we tell whose name we got, anyway? \*\* In the past, as soon as people received their gifts, they’d start a thread telling what they got and from whom. So if your recipient posts and wonders who sent it, you could 'fess up there! Mine went out 2 days ago so I’m hoping to see a post within a week. I’ll be posting myself before the tattered bits of wrapping paper have had a chance to fall to the ground. I’m worse than a kid when Secret Santa comes to town! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/226 "2003-12-11T16:19:19Z")
Well mine will go out on the 19th - I get paid on the 18th. 🙂 But I’m telling my giftee who I am - AND I might even send 'em a picture - they’ll be the only doper who knows what Missy2U looks like! Yes, I am weird. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/227 "2003-12-11T19:36:00Z")
w00t, I got mine! Many thanks to **RickQ** , who sent me something I would have seen, coveted, and then not bought. I love it! 😃 I’m sending my person’s out as soon as **Tark** gets home and I can wander out to the post office. It’s my opinion that everyone should get a toy for whatever holiday they’re celebrating, so I hope it’s not too disappointing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/228 "2003-12-12T00:05:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bear\_Nenno \* > \*\*My gift will be going out this afternoon. I hope he likes it. Ive thought hard about what to get and I’ve actually ended up doing a couple things. I’ve spent almost 40 dollars total and it’s really kinda lame… wish I would have known more about him. Hope he likes it though. \*\* Darn. With all those "he"s I know you didn’t pick my name, so maybe I am just jealous, but weren’t we supposed to stay in the $10 range? I don’t want anyone to feel bad if they stayed within the posted limit. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/229 "2003-12-12T00:39:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brynda \* > \*\*Darn. With all those "he"s I know you didn’t pick my name, so maybe I am just jealous, but weren’t we supposed to stay in the $10 range? I don’t want anyone to feel bad if they stayed within the posted limit. \*\* I definitely stayed in the around $10 range. I hope I did well by my giftee, but I don’t know yet. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/230 "2003-12-12T00:39:46Z")
I haven’t found my secret santa’s present yet. So, in the near future, I will be doing this, possibly tomorrow and it is really hard for me as I have been waffling between about 6000 things I’ve seen around and in stores and on the web. Then I have to go into Defcom 4.5 to find a box. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/231 "2003-12-12T00:45:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*In the past, as soon as people received their gifts, they’d start a thread telling what they got and from whom. So if your recipient posts and wonders who sent it, you could 'fess up there! > > Mine went out 2 days ago so I’m hoping to see a post within a week. I’ll be posting myself before the tattered bits of wrapping paper have had a chance to fall to the ground. I’m worse than a kid when Secret Santa comes to town! 😃 \*\* I started a thread for giftees to brag. It is [here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=228742) ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/232 "2003-12-12T02:34:03Z")
My gift was in the $10 range, too. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/233 "2003-12-12T02:49:45Z")
I have my giftees present (although one bit short- in attempting to remove the tag, it opened… and… well…one just cannot send opened chocolate! I HAD to eat it!), but it won’t be mailed until Saturday morning. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/234 "2003-12-12T03:43:43Z")
My giftee’s gift went out today. I did some sleuthing around the boards so I think they will appreciate their gift. I hope so anyways! ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/235 "2003-12-12T04:12:23Z")
I also sent my gift out today. It should get there in 5 days. I didn’t manage to stay in the $10 range but I saw two things my giftee wanted and couldn’t resist. Enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/236 "2003-12-12T04:27:10Z")
I still haven’t bought my giftee a present yet. But, I will around the 16th or 17th as I tend to shop in the last days before Xmas anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/237 "2003-12-12T22:03:59Z")
Mine was a bit above the 10 dollar range, but not very much so. Anyway, I’m mailing it out tomorrow! ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/238 "2003-12-13T16:27:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brynda \* > \*\*Darn. With all those "he"s I know you didn’t pick my name, so maybe I am just jealous, but weren’t we supposed to stay in the $10 range? I don’t want anyone to feel bad if they stayed within the posted limit. \*\* Yeah, sorry about going out of the price range. But seriously, Im just not as clever as you people. I couldn’t think of anything to get for that price. I paid a lot more, and I still didnt think it was that cool. But after I saw it, I kinda liked it. You guys always come up with cool inexpensive stuff… ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/239 "2003-12-13T21:23:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*In the past, as soon as people received their gifts, they’d start a thread telling what they got and from whom. So if your recipient posts and wonders who sent it, you could 'fess up there! > > Mine went out 2 days ago so I’m hoping to see a post within a week. I’ll be posting myself before the tattered bits of wrapping paper have had a chance to fall to the ground. I’m worse than a kid when Secret Santa comes to town! 😃 \*\* Mail runs **real** slow in these parts, **FairyChatMom** , and sometimes so do the people who get the mail. 😃 I loved my gift! And I say _love **d** _, because it’s almost all gone! Chocolate, ladies and gents, fabulous chocolate is what our dear sweet **FCM** sent her giftee. Lindt ™ dark chocolate: truffles and cocoa squares. The truffles are fabu… I pop one in my mouth and it melts so devinely… it’s like silk for your mouth. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! _:: blows **FCM** icicle kisses from the Hoosier State ::_ Oh, and BTW, my giftee should be expecting a prezzie w/in the next 5 or so days… it went out today. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041/240 "2003-12-13T21:27:02Z")
And before I forget: I love the cocoa squares, too… didn’t want to sound like I didn’t. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2003/213041.md?page=13)