# Would anyone like to do a Valentine's Day Exchange? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599 "2015-01-22T17:44:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/81 "2015-02-18T04:51:48Z")
I got mine from **Jayrey** too! Also a nice bookmark by the enigmatic **rocking chair** , and a card with a hand drawn flower from **Eonwe**. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/82 "2015-02-19T19:54:28Z")
On Tuesday, I got 3 valentines. Thanks, **jayrey** , **purplehorseshoe** , and **Eonwe**! All were most welcome. šŸ™‚ Loved your sisterā€™s gorgeous original design, **Eonwe**. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/83 "2015-02-19T21:36:07Z")
Got a nice lovely card from **Eonwe** and a beautiful card from **anaglyph**! Thanks! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/84 "2015-02-25T20:32:32Z")
Such excitement!! I came home today, on a day when it was supposed to get up to 30Ā° and be sunny, but instead is 17Ā° and snowing, to a Manila envelope with my name on it. I opened it, and it was a valentine from Anaglyph! It looks like it could be a Mardi Gras mask, and is a lovely red and green heart-shaped valentine. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/85 "2015-02-25T21:39:01Z")
Oooh, Iā€™m mystified nowā€¦ I got an hand-made mask yesterday, but I thought it was from **Amarinth**! šŸ˜• At any rate, no matter which lovely individual sent it, Iā€™m happy to have it, thanks! And double-yum for the chocolate! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/86 "2015-02-25T21:44:50Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Thank you to grrlbrarian, jkellymap, pai325, and especially to EmilyG for the PURPLE šŸ˜ƒ painted box with my allotment of this yearā€™s SDMB chocolate and candy. (The ā€œmandarinoā€ was a nice change!) > > Thank you also to anaamika for the truly lovely card and what the HELL did you try to enclose? Mine chewed its way out to join its brethren as well ā€¦ They were little charms to hang onto your backpack or your keychain. :mad: I will be more careful next time. At this point, is there anyone who hasnā€™t sent theirs? No shaming here, just please send them as soon as possible! I donā€™t mind getting them late at all, it makes me happy. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/87 "2015-02-25T23:36:07Z")
> [@Grrlbrarian](#): > > Oooh, Iā€™m mystified nowā€¦ I got an hand-made mask yesterday, but I thought it was from **Amarinth**! šŸ˜• At any rate, no matter which lovely individual sent it, Iā€™m happy to have it, thanks! And double-yum for the chocolate! šŸ˜ƒ They finally got somewhere! Iā€™m sorry it took so long (they really were sent out pre-Valentines day). They were supposed to be alligator/valentine masks. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/88 "2015-02-26T00:32:11Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > They finally got somewhere! Iā€™m sorry it took so long (they really were sent out pre-Valentines day). > They were supposed to be alligator/valentine masks. Iā€™m just clueless. As soon as I read this, I looked at the mask and could immediately see the alligator. And, I just picked up the envelope to put it in the recycling, and realized that there were two pieces of Ghiradelli chocolate in it! What a day! ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/89 "2015-02-26T13:48:48Z")
**Pai325ā€™s** , **Grrlbrarianā€™s** and **Jkellymapā€™s cards arrived well before valentineā€™s day. Purplehorseshoeā€™s** lovely hearts and good wishes did a point landing, arriving exactly on valentineā€™s day. **Jayrayā€™s** and **Eonweā€™s** lovely cards arrived only few days later **Rockingchairā€™s** handwriting challenged the Swiss postal system, in trying to decipher it they found somebody with the same last name where every detail in the address was just slightly off: the first half of the first name, the area code too low by 10 but in the same city, the first half of the street name different, the second half (meaning ā€œmeadowā€) correct, digits of the house number transposed. The poor initial recipient apparently had to return it twice to the post office until it found its way to my mailbox. I sent her a thank you card for her effort. **Amarinthā€™s** alligator arrived yesterday, causing some puzzlement because the green part had separated from the rest, and reassembly was not immediately obvious, but [this image](http://scene7.targetimg1.com/is/image/Target/16314069?wid=410&hei=410) solved the puzzle. The chocolates were sticky, as the caramel filling had escaped the chocolate covering, but they were nice. So eight cards have arrived so far, and I have two more to look forwards to! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/90 "2015-02-26T14:53:06Z")
I enjoyed receiving goodies in the mail, and sending them out. My only regret is that I couldnā€™t send out stuff to more people. Ah well, thereā€™s always next year. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/91 "2015-02-27T03:06:45Z")
And what to my wondering eyes did appear, but ah, shit, wrong holiday my alligator card arrived from **amarinth** along with my two delicious and wonderfully well-timed chocolates, as today was a Bad Day and I was busy throwing myself a little pity party, so the smile - that truly is a delightfully cheesy card - and the candy was especially appreciated. Thank you! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/92 "2015-02-27T03:14:37Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > They were little charms to hang onto your backpack or your keychain. :mad: I will be more careful next timeā€¦ Awww. ā˜¹ Iā€™ll be completely honest, I had a true moral struggle as I considered not telling you, to spare you the disappointed feeling, but when I circled back around to this thread I saw that others had posted the same thing so I just couldnā€™t. I even briefly thought about posting a thread here, with the generalities only and without the details, to solicit opinions on which was more important - truth or compassion - which would have been so meta and recursive I might have broken the Internet. Besides, I thoroughly enjoyed my mental movie of you packing and mailing a bunch of pint-sized gremlins, and of them chewing and clawing (the envelopes really did look mauled) and finally escaping and getting drinks together at a rendezvous post office, and you know what? Fun like that is its own special gift. Consider yours to have arrived. ETA anaglyph, thanks for the chuckles at the adventures of rockingchairā€™s cardā€™s travels. Love that the post office got the business of an extra thank you card in the mail out of it. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/93 "2015-02-27T14:09:09Z")
Got a lovely mask from **amarinth**! And some candies. They were melted (seems to be a bit of a problem with receiving caramel-chocolate in the mail, which is too bad because I like caramel-chocolate) but I had a bite anyway. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/94 "2015-02-28T00:38:25Z")
and that was the pretty handwritingā€¦ anaglyph, iā€™m glad it finally got to you. perhaps you will have a new friend? i enjoyed the mask, chased the cat with it. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/95 "2015-02-28T02:57:03Z")
Oh, thatā€™s right: amarinth, you have lovely handwriting!, ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/96 "2015-03-07T21:53:30Z")
I received a beautiful Valentine in the mail today from Anaglyph!!! Itā€™s the most exquisite hand made card with pop up flowers. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/97 "2015-03-08T20:32:41Z")
i am happy to announce that the us postal service had no trouble with anaglyphā€™s handwriting. what a fantastic card! just the perfect card, the flowers are so very welcome after a 7 inch snow fall. ---
**Author:** ![Grrlbrarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrlbrarian/32/4048_2.png) [@Grrlbrarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrlbrarian)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/98 "2015-03-09T02:51:30Z")
Yay! I got a beautiful card in the mail from **Anaglyph** on Friday. šŸ™‚ Thanks so much for your lovely, creative Valentine! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/99 "2015-03-09T13:42:03Z")
I also got anaglyphā€™s gorgeous card on Friday! What a nice surprise, well after I thought the holiday was over, to get one more lovely card in the mail. It really cheered me up! Thanks for participating, everyone! ---
**Author:** ![Anaglyph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anaglyph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaglyph)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599/100 "2015-03-10T14:38:09Z")
Funny - I sent 10 cards on Feb. 3rd, the first one arrived at its destination on Feb. 12th, the rest only getting to their destination now! They are apparently taking the long way around! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-anyone-like-to-do-a-valentines-day-exchange/710599.md?page=6)