The Secret Santa gift exchange is open to active forum members who joined the forum on or before September 30th, 2007. We apologize in advance to anyone this disqualifies, but experience in previous years has taught us that we need to set a deadline for membership.
As you can see, we’ve set up a User ID of Secret Santa to keep track of the participants.
So, in order to sign up, send a private message to Secret Santa and include the following information.
- Your Forum ID
- Your email address
- Your full name
- Your mailing address
Also - please indicate whether or not you would be willing to exchange gifts with someone in a different country - most of our members are in the U.S., but we also have members in the UK, Canada and other countries.
The closing date for entries will be midnight on Friday November 16th - so you have a week to decide whether you want to participate or not.
Once the entries are closed, your Secret Santa matchups will be sent out. Everyone should be matched up with a Secret Santa by November 18th. (My parents will be visiting from England, but, I'll send them shopping while I do the match-ups)
The gift value has been set at $25, same as last year, to keep this economical and fun for everyone.
There's another thread running, called Secret Santa Wishlist, where you can give your Santa some ideas on what you would like and find out what your partner wants too.
Remember -- Don’t sign up in that thread. Only people who send private messages to Secret Santa will be eligible for the Gift Exchange.
All gifts should be mailed in the first week of December. That should give everyone enough time to shop for gifts and allow plenty of time for them to arrive by Christmas.