Cellar Secret Santa
 

Apologies if this has been brought up before. Something in chat made me think of it and I could find another post.

For those not familiar with the concept:
Everyone wanting to take part submits name and address - can be work address, PO Box address, friend's address, whatever you are happy with if not home address.
The "Secret Santa" draws names from a hat - for example Ducks might get Labrat, labrat might get Monster. In the case of odd numbers either someone else is called in or "Santa" gets generous
Each person is informed by PM of their recipient and spends $5-10 on a suitable/ rude/ useful/ legal present via post.

Now, I am willing to be Santa, but I would rather take part.
It's up to UT of course - he has plenty of info on us and is obviously trustworthy, but also works hard already for us

In offices the sender is usually kept private, but the wrapped present is on display for days, and the gifts are much discussed. Every year, to my distress, the gift I bought and wrapped on behalf of my Manager was always more admired than mine!!!

Anyone up for it?

Me!

Me

wHOOWOOOO"
A few more and we won't be able to guess who thery're from!

I'd be up for it. I think we should definitely have to post descriptions and/or photos of the presents when they arrive!

By Santa, do you mean the one who pulls the numbers, makes the pairings and informs people of their intended? I can do that if you want. I like to be bossy.

I'm not sure why you think it wouldn't work with an odd number of people. I don't see it will be a problem.

Let me know. You gotta remember, though, of we're going intercontinental, mailing dates are early and mailing costs can be huge.

I would be mean old Santa and insist that you -SG- and anyone else on an extremely tight budget think of the mailing cost (which is nearly a pound for just a letter UK-US) when purchasing :p it's all very well keeping the gift cost down to $5-$10, but if you buy a souvenir rock, that shipping's gonna kill you.

In.

in

I am up for this. :)

Count me in.

yeah, baby, yeah

The drawing can be on youtube video to keep things honest.

i'm in.

overseas gifts can present problems. I've been involved in Internet Secret Santas before, where the poor giftee has to pay duty tax on their gift. Not sure there's even a way around that.

Hmm....I've sent a few hundred dollars worth of Xmas gifts to the US every year and never had any problems with import tax.

Down here you have up to $250 before import duty kicks in and most people just declare under that no matter what