Shopping ahead always works for me, because when faced with the last-minute details around here, adding one more purchase to my strained budget is a challenge. So I'll be finding something (and hoping it suits my Santee!) soon.

Having something extra in case a Secret Santa (or their parcel) goes missing isn't a bad idea. Perhaps each continent needs someone who could step into the breach, so remedy of the Santa-faux-pas can happen quickly and not have to span continents. And this might be best handled by another PM to CatsPHiddle, letting her know that in an emergency we have a spare tidbit we can pop in the mail.

SRS