# Secret Santa 2006 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 19, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073 "2006-11-19T21:54:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/201 "2006-12-13T21:07:21Z")
Any orphans left? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/202 "2006-12-13T21:30:46Z")
Nope, the celebrities have adopted them all. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/203 "2006-12-13T22:23:59Z")
Mine will go out this afternoon or tomorrow morning. I put viva/sdmb on my address label, the recipient’s username on the left side of the box, and the box itself says PICKLED SLICED BEETS on the sides. Distinctive enough? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/204 "2006-12-14T01:14:25Z")
I have the gift, it’s wrapped, I have a box, now I just need to get to a post office. Maybe tomorrow, I hope … Apparently my gift came, from the email I got from my mother (I live in a sketchy apartment with no place to get packages). I waiting until Christmas morning, though. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/205 "2006-12-14T01:42:13Z")
So has anyone actually received and opened a present yet? ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/206 "2006-12-14T01:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] So has anyone actually received and opened a present yet? [/QUOTE] You mean you haven’t received that box of Kleenex I sent you?!?!? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/207 "2006-12-14T02:33:01Z")
My mother said some package came for me. It might be this, but I didn’t want to ask because she gets kind of freaked out with the idea of me giving my address out (_gasp_) over the internet. So, when I go home on Saturday (finals are almost over!), we shall see. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/208 "2006-12-14T02:48:10Z")
My package went out today Priority Mail, and should arrive at it’s destination on time. I put my user name inside on the card, so if you receive a smallish square Priority Mail box from Santa’s neighborhood, it’s safe to open it! I wish a wonderful holiday season to everyone here. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/209 "2006-12-14T13:57:25Z")
[QUOTE=Hugh Jass] Kinda funny story: My giftor is from Gaithersburg Maryland. My family lives in Gaithersburg Maryland. The return name was “Main” which I mistakenly thought said “Mom” Cool. Mom sent me something. Maybe cookies. Opened the package and I knew what it was. It was a Page-a-Day calendar. I made a cursory glance for the name of my Doper and couldn’t find it, and I don’t think “Main” is a Doper name. So, whoever you are, thank you for taking the time to learn that I’m a history fan, and getting me a calendar. P.S. My mom is kind of relieved to not have to bother with the calendar this year. [/QUOTE] That would be me. I couldn’t figure out what to get you since I didn’t see anything in the thread. So I went looking and saw you liked history. So last week I gave blood and left work early. I started thinking, what to get, what to get. Then I figured that a page a day calender about history would be good, if they make something like that. Off to the mall I go, search the calender store only to find nothing. That’s odd I, one would think someone would make something about history, there’s one for everything else. Then I see it, the last one. So I got that and my Dilbet calender that I get every year. I didn’t put my name down, but I did put SDMB Secret Santa on the label. That’s funny you thought it was from your mom though. Be even funnier if she lived down the street. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/210 "2006-12-14T14:20:47Z")
Woot woot! I got the most perfect Secret Santa today! How did Santa know that I love flavored hot chocolate and vanilla-scented bath products! Oh wait, Santa knows everything. There were three canisters of chocolate mix (woo hoo) and a kit of vanilla body wash, scrubby puff, and vanilla bath salts. The last is perfect because although I only have a shower, my friends just built a soaking tub and I can pass it on! Thanks so much, **Batsinma Belfry**! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/211 "2006-12-14T14:23:14Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] You mean you haven’t received that box of Kleenex I sent you?!?!? 😃 [/QUOTE] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/212 "2006-12-14T14:40:52Z")
I sen my package on Sunday, very expensively, with the assurence that it would reach its destination by Tuesday. I have yet to see any proof that it has arrived. Stupid Post Office. ---
**Author:** ![Canadiangirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/213 "2006-12-14T15:26:12Z")
I’m going to open mine as soon as I get it…because my hubby won’t let me open anything else…well, except my best friend’s gift because she’s my best friend and only gets stuff for me and I can open it early, I mean I always have, even before we were married…so, really, I can decide if I want to open it or not. So there. And I used to open my mom’s gift when we got together before christmas (because she didn’t like my in-laws and hated sitting there opening presents with them so we used to do it beforehand) because she said I could …and did I mention, mom, I really miss you. December 27th is one tough day and starting about this time of year, each day is more difficult. If I didn’t have a family, I wouldn’t celebrate this time of year at all. Thank god for beer and Baileys - it’s my christmas cheer in a box. I love you, mom and what I wouldn’t give to hear your voice again. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/214 "2006-12-14T18:10:54Z")
I just mailed mine from CA this morning, via priority mail. It should arrive in the northeast U.S. by Monday, with any luck. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/215 "2006-12-14T18:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Woot woot! I got the most perfect Secret Santa today! How did Santa know that I love flavored hot chocolate and vanilla-scented bath products! Oh wait, Santa knows everything. There were three canisters of chocolate mix (woo hoo) and a kit of vanilla body wash, scrubby puff, and vanilla bath salts. The last is perfect because although I only have a shower, my friends just built a soaking tub and I can pass it on! Thanks so much, **Batsinma Belfry**! [/QUOTE] Yay! Now I can stop worrying about it getting lost in the mail. I’m glad you like it! **Canadiangirl** I’m sorry you had a loss so close to Christmas. I lost my mom 5 years ago on Dec. 3. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/216 "2006-12-14T18:54:20Z")
I’m sorry too **Canadiangirl**. I can’t imagine the loss of my mom. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/217 "2006-12-14T18:58:09Z")
I got my gift today! It was in this HUGE box - I took it out to my car and then couldn’t resist, and opened it up! There are two things. First is this gigantic frosted snowman candle, which I will enjoy burning down gleefully. Second is a WHOLE BOX of the sample Yankee Candles, which I know go for more than $20 around here! Secret Santa - who signs her card as Kat? is just way too generous. Plus the card is really cool. It’s a bunch of melted snowmen on an ice lake, around a fire-in-a-barrel, and one is saying “Great idea, Carl.” Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/218 "2006-12-14T19:03:19Z")
Oh, wait. **Kat** is her username, it seems. Man, how do you ever do searches? 🙂 Thanks again! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/219 "2006-12-14T19:15:33Z")
My dad and I have (had) birthdays 5 days apart. His was on the 26th and mine is on the 31st of December. Every year on his birthday we’d set up our drum kits across from each other and have a “drum battle”, and he _always_ “put me in the dirt” because he was the better drummer of the two of us, even in his 70’s. He died in 95 and I still have a tough time on that day, so I can definitely relate, **CanadianGirl**. He got me out of a severe stuttering problem by teaching me drums and rhythm when I was little, so I am with you in missing him as you miss your Mom. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073/220 "2006-12-14T19:31:42Z")
\ **I got a rock!** \ Oh, wait, no I didn’t. I got a Rocking Clock! A Discovery Channel Rocking Clock, in fact, if you care to go Googling. It’s basically a Weeble; you bonk it and it rocks back and forth and the LCD numbers go all wonky. Definitely fun! And another timewaster at my desk, just what I need. 😃 It also shows temperature and has an alarm, which is neat, perfect for quickie naps on the couch. We can never have too many alarm clocks scattered around this house; never know when the Snooze Fairy will arrive! So thanks, **Anaamika!** Very cool! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2006/381073.md?page=12)