2012 Secret Santa.

2012 Secret Santa is happening! To participate, please email the below survey to secretsanta@parrotparadiseforum.com. All participant surveys should be in by November 17th.

The price range is $25.

Name:
Mailing Address:
Parrot(s) Species:
Parrot(s) Name(s):
Parrot(s) Likes:
Parrot(s) Dislikes:
Willing to ship internationally:

As with last year, the below rules apply:

1. Names and addresses are collected by the Secret Santa administrator.
   There need to be an even number of names so that everyone interested
   sends and receives something for their bird.
   
2. A price point
   would be voted on by everyone interested. Gifts should be kept within
   this price range. For example, we could do a general price range for
   everyone; we could have multiple price ranges for people interested in
   lower or higher price points; or we could have price points for
   different sizes of birds since small bird toys are generally much
   cheaper than large bird toys.
   
3. Once a master list of names
   and addresses are received by the Admin, in this case me, people in
   specific price ranges are paired up together. For example, if I were
   participating (I'm not participating since I'm running it), I would
   receive the name and address of another member and a little information
   about their bird(s). I would buy toys, food or whatever for said bird(s)
   and mail the gift with a card of some sort.
   Hypothetically,
   let's say I was paired up with GlassOnion. I already know GlassOnion has
   a budgie and a cockatiel. Let's also say that I signed up for a $20
   price point. GlassOnion would've filled out a survey about her birds
   detailing their likes and dislikes. For this hypothetical, let's say
   Apple really likes shreddable toys and Spice likes toys with bells. I
   would purchase $20 worth of toys fitting these descriptions. When I pack
   up my package, I would also include a non-denominational happy holiday
   card and send said package, with tracking information, by December 5th.
   
4. All
   names and addresses of those interested would be used only for this
   exchange. I would have the master list for use of giving your name,
   address and bird information to another member only. Names and addresses
   will not be made public.
   
5. Everyone interested would be
   paired up in early November. Gifts would need to be sent by early
   December. Tracking numbers would need to be supplied to the
   administrator to confirm a gift was sent.
   

Done!

Info sent!

Me too

Done as well

Whee!!! I love this event!! Count me in!

I'm in! It was great fun last year!

This is the last weekend to enter. I'll be matching people when I have free time next Saturday and hopefully sending match information out at the same time.

Done and Done

I'm really pumped for it

Hey did PDB enter yet? I told her she has to

evil chicken wrote:

Hey did PDB enter yet? I told her she has to

She didn't!

kaeladedah wrote:

evil chicken wrote:

Hey did PDB enter yet? I told her she has to

She didn't!

Tell her again EC!

OKAY! OKAY!
I'm here.
I'm in!

Oh BTW - Hi everyone!

I'll be sending out matches sometime this weekend!

Got my work secret santa yesterday, now all I'm waiting for is this one

If I finish my paper early enough tonight, they should be out tonight. If not, they'll be out Thursday.

I have them matched up. I'll send them out tomorrow. I promise!

Matches have been sent. Happy secret santa-ing.

Thanks, I have info!
Kay, are you participating in SS this year?

I make the matches so I don't get to participate.

kaeladedah wrote:

I make the matches so I don't get to participate.

Next year maybe we should get a Santa Helper and have them pair you up!

Okay, question from me:-)
How do you send your gift to be anonimous? They told me at the Post Office, that I can't put 'Secret Santa' as a sender -

Margaret wrote:

Okay, question from me:-)
How do you send your gift to be anonimous? They told me at the Post Office, that I can't put 'Secret Santa' as a sender -

I've never had the post office require that I fill out the "sender" portion of the package if you're using one of the priority, etc. boxes. You should be able to leave it blank!

If shipping international sometimes Santa's cover gets blown.