# Secret Santa 2008 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037 "2008-11-16T21:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/81 "2008-12-01T04:44:10Z")
Okay, the emails have gone out. Please let me know if you didn’t get an email, or if I sent you your own name or the name of your spouse or something equally not right. The next few steps: 1. Get a present for your Santee and wrap it carefully. Gift paper is nice. 2. Write a note to your Santee with your username and enclose it with the gift. 3. When you wrap it for shipping, put “SDMB” above your return address. This is a) so the person knows what this package from a complete stranger actually is, and b) so he or she can post that the package has arrived (some people like to wait and open their gifts on the 25th). 4. Mail it. 5. Post here when you have mailed (or FedExed or UPSed) it. When your gift arrives – hopefully marked with an SDMB above the return address: 1. Post here that it has arrived, even if you’re not going to open it right away. _I will be keeping track of all the comings and goings, so please post both when the gift you’re sending goes out and when the gift you’re receiving arrives._ Every year, a few people get orphaned. Please, don’t let it be your person! If you’ve suddenly realized can’t send a gift, pls. email me or PM me ASAP and I’ll find someone to take your Santee. \*\*If you just stiff the person you’re supposed to send to, I will follow you around the boards forever making your life a living hell. This will include, but not be limited to, telling the organizer of every exchange you ever sign up for in the future that you are a deadbeat. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/82 "2008-12-01T04:48:39Z")
I apologize in advance to my giftee for my lameness, but I’m all giddy with Secretive Santaness! ---
**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 1, 2008, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/83 "2008-12-01T11:51:36Z")
Yay, shopping! I’m off today and tomorrow, now I have something to do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/84 "2008-12-01T23:14:32Z")
I have mailed my package off! ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/85 "2008-12-01T23:37:49Z")
My shopping will be done this weekend (after the Other Half’s payday) and mailed out sometime around Monday. Woohoo! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/86 "2008-12-02T00:11:51Z")
I’ll get my package in the mail by this weekend. I appreciate the suggestions from the recipient, 'cause I’m terrible at coming up with clever ideas. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/87 "2008-12-02T00:21:12Z")
**My** giftee’s present will be sent the week after I get back from vacation. He said he wants something local from where I am from, so it’s going to be a lot of fun shopping for him! 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/88 "2008-12-02T01:24:34Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > I have mailed my package off! Way to make the rest of us look bad, **viva**. 😉 I will probably do my shopping this weekend and my shipping next week. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/89 "2008-12-02T01:36:03Z")
So I guess **viva** has the distinction of being the first Doper to mail “the first gift of Christmas”\* 2008? I bet Santa’s very proud of you, **viva** 😉 Quas \*above quoted text is from my new favorite Christmas movie _ **The Polar Express** _. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/90 "2008-12-02T02:01:11Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > Way to make the rest of us look bad, **viva**. 😉 Not me – I’m actually _making_ something for my Santee. Take that! ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/91 "2008-12-02T11:55:16Z")
Will shop next week so as to get my gift in the mail ASAP. This should be fun. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elysium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Elysium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysium)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/92 "2008-12-02T16:34:06Z")
I’m probably going to go out tonight and grab what I’m getting. Should be able to mail it out by the end of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/93 "2008-12-02T19:31:37Z")
Im paid Friday, so my secret santa gift should be zipping on its way by Monday morning. _crosses fingers!_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/94 "2008-12-02T19:49:16Z")
I’m goint to try to get mine in the mail by Friday, as it’s going a long way(from me at least) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Cream\_Conquest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@Ice\_Cream\_Conquest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Cream_Conquest)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/95 "2008-12-02T21:58:07Z")
Gift sent. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/96 "2008-12-03T03:13:25Z")
I’m going shopping this weekend when I go to the mall with my best friend, then I’m going to be sneaky and mail it from the US when I go home! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/97 "2008-12-03T03:17:32Z")
Mine will go out sometime before the end of the week. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/98 "2008-12-03T03:17:37Z")
“Sneaky’s” good. I have some sneaky stuff planned as well! 😉 Christmas would suck without **this** , y’all. Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/99 "2008-12-03T03:20:38Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Not me – I’m actually _making_ something for my Santee. Take that! Made stuff is special. One of my neighbors, a very spry 93 year old, makes a very nice jar of Kahlua mix that I find every year on my front door step. I think she may have the “lukewarms” for me! :eek: 😃 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037/100 "2008-12-03T04:10:11Z")
I have either 2/3 or 1/2 of my Santee’s gift assembled. Mwahaha! Wait. Evil laugh didn’t really go there. Um. HO! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-2008/473037.md?page=6)