# White Elephant 2008 Update Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 11, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043 "2008-09-11T01:10:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/1 "2008-09-11T01:10:19Z")
Hello White Elephanters!
I can’t actually find the other thread, so I started this one - Mods please merge, close, etc if necessary.
As usual, as soon as I start a White Elephant exchange a small percentage of posters on this board start acting like douchebags and I get cranky.
However, the has not prevented me from putting together the most fabulous Elephant **EVAAAAR!!!**
Watch your mail dopers - this bad boy is on his way this Saturday!
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### Author:  [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/2 "2008-09-11T01:12:29Z")
I’m going to try to get mine out on Saturday. But it might not be till the middle of next week. Trying, of course, to put together a competetive collection. 😃
Thanks again for organizing this, **alice**!
GT
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### Author:  [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/3 "2008-09-12T03:05:56Z")
Got my package mailed off today with crossed fingers that the breakables don’t.
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/4 "2008-09-12T04:36:41Z")
I’m almost through packin’ the box! I promise!
some of that stuff is hard to squeeze in there
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/5 "2008-09-12T08:36:59Z")
My housemate is moving out Saturday at which point I have to move a lot of my stuff around too. So I’m waiting til then when I’ll be digging through all my stuff anyway 🙂
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### Author:  [@SomeUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SomeUserName)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/6 "2008-09-12T09:44:14Z")
I am still gathering items. I know we another week or two so my package will go out later in the month.
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/7 "2008-09-12T09:47:01Z")
You were able to add me right? I thought I made the deadline. If not, then next time.
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### Author:  [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/8 "2008-09-12T09:53:49Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
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> You were able to add me right? I thought I made the deadline. If not, then next time.
If you didnt make it in time but still want in you and Projammer can exchange 9he didnt sign up in time either). With our combined household, we will be cleaning out more stuff this weekend and will have more than enough to add another to our list 🆒
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### Author:  [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/9 "2008-09-12T12:08:42Z")
Holy Crap I had forgotten about this!
Yay, I see I have an e-mail with contact info. Awesome!
Now, to put together a box that is so cool, it can only be called Awesome.
Dick Awesome.
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### Author:  [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/10 "2008-09-12T12:24:57Z")
I’m calling mine Marge. Just because.
Marge is getting full.
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### Author:  [@pantheon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantheon)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/11 "2008-09-12T14:15:50Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#):
>
> Hello White Elephanters!
>
> I can’t actually find the other thread, so I started this one - Mods please merge, close, etc if necessary.
>
> As usual, as soon as I start a White Elephant exchange a small percentage of posters on this board start acting like douchebags and I get cranky.
>
> However, the has not prevented me from putting together the most fabulous Elephant **EVAAAAR!!!**
>
> Watch your mail dopers - this bad boy is on his way this Saturday!
I was pretty sure I made the deadline too but didn’t receive any email back with an address, etc.
Not complaining! I may have missed deadline, although I sent it between your first compiled list and second, in the original thread. If too late/more trouble than worth, don’t worry about it.
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### Author:  [@mmouse9799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmouse9799)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/12 "2008-09-12T15:23:51Z")
My mom came to visit last weekend and brought a truck load of my stuff that was being stored in her barn.
I’m finishing my box as I go through that stuff. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/13 "2008-09-12T15:24:17Z")
I’ve got an OK mental list of things to pick up from the house. I’ll try to get them sent today and use my job’s UPS account to pay for shipping. MUAUAHAHAHAHAH!!!
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2008, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/14 "2008-09-12T16:11:00Z")
Well I’m definetly passing along something I got in the last WE. I’m trying to decide what else tosend with it.
I don’t have anything as perfect as the item I sent last time, which I strongly suspect will be sent to a new owner this time around.
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/15 "2008-09-13T01:21:40Z")
> [@Autolycus](#):
>
> You were able to add me right? I thought I made the deadline. If not, then next time.
Dude - I sent you an e-mail weeks ago.
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/16 "2008-09-13T01:24:19Z")
> [@pantheon](#):
>
> I was pretty sure I made the deadline too but didn’t receive any email back with an address, etc.
>
> Not complaining! I may have missed deadline, although I sent it between your first compiled list and second, in the original thread. If too late/more trouble than worth, don’t worry about it.
Both you and Auto need to check your junk folders or PM me a new e-mail - I sent both of you a message on September 2nd.
I just checked my sent folder and neither of them bounced back.
ETA - I double checked and I replyed to both of your e-mails so I should have got through - send me a new e-mail address please.
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### Author:  [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/17 "2008-09-13T02:22:42Z")
All my stuff is in my shed being held hostage by a raccoon. As soon as I [del]dispatch[/del] deal with the little feller in a positive way I will pack up and ship it.
I thought about sending the raccoon with the stuff but he’s bigger than the box.:eek:
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### Author:  [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/18 "2008-09-13T02:56:34Z")
My package is sitting here, waiting for me to make one final look around for any last-minute [del]crap[/del] treasures to be added, and it will be going out at the end of the week.
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/19 "2008-09-13T12:17:29Z")
I’m usually very prompt dressing my ele, but Hubby’s dad is sick so I’ve been spending time there. I’ll get busy this weekend.
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### Author:  [@purple\_haze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purple_haze)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-elephant-2008-update-thread/463043/20 "2008-09-13T17:15:04Z")
My box is packed and ready to go. What I did is grab a medium-sized box and wander the house, putting random things into it. The person I send this to will find layers of nonsense in there, that’s for sure.
Now that I think of it, that describes a lot of people’s lives; layers of nonsense.
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