BS: Secret Santa Time Again! (2003)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 10:25 AM

me too, me too, me too (please)

And I think my pressie was the last to arrive (around 6th Feb after leaving Tennesee mid Nov!!) & was it ever worth the wait (thankyou Giac & I hope you're feeling better today)

Tho I haven't seen any Bah Humbug stuff in the shops, yet - they're still full of Father's day crap, maybe next week they'll start. Oops, I told a fib (sorry Santa) I did see Chrissy stuff in the embroidery shop, but that's a different type of shop to the other retailers. And my favourite charity has sent out it's catalogue for those who want personalised cards.

sandra (whose address details haven't changed)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Edain
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 10:27 AM

I'm up for it again, thanks for keeping it running cats

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: JennyO
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 11:08 AM

Yes, please! This will be my first year, so I will PM you my details soon, complete with brand-new address!

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: GUEST,SSS at work
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 11:15 AM

We really have to thank Clinton Hammond for introducing this idea to mudcat!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 12:08 PM

Had such a quacking time last year would like to do it again, Khatt. Same pond!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 12:54 PM

Me too!
sent my parcel off early last year but it was returned to me because the zip code address was out by one number. It was eventually received albeit a little late.
I like this game too ... do you still have that lifesaver Morti? LOL

LL

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: selby
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 01:16 PM

Count me in again, I just love it!!!same address as last year.
Keith

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Morticia
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 01:34 PM

I do, LL.....the whole bag was so wonderful I just had to keep it all together.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: PageOfCups
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 02:35 PM

I'm in! I got mugged last year - two lovely xmas mugs that I use all the time. Hee!

PoC

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 03:13 PM

PM sent... hope I sent the right info...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 03:43 PM

Last year I thought I was too much of a new boy to join in,but feel I have been rude to enough people in the last twelve months to have a go this year. Details will be on the way Catt.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: running.hare
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 03:52 PM

Yep I'm In

Will try & remember to PM!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: RangerSteve
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 04:12 PM

Count me in.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: vectis
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 07:34 PM

I'll come in this year. It sounds like a real gas.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Sep 03 - 08:00 PM

Success breeds success. Cat, you're going to have your hands full!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: karen k
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 12:14 AM

I'm in and I will try real hard to get it out in time for Christmas this year, not Valentines Day.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:59 AM

Count me in again -- it's grand fun!

PM coming as soon as I can snatch a minim.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Partridge
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 10:34 AM

I'll have a go this year,

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Snuffy
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 11:20 AM

Me too, Khatt. Same details as last year.

Perhaps this year my pressie will arrive

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Giac
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 04:09 PM

What a great thread to find on my first Mudcat visit in quite awhile!

Absolutely, I want in on this again.

Can't stress enough (as Sandra in Sidney will attest) the importance of mailing overseas parcels very early!

Got great presents from Kim C last year, not the least of which was a tape of herself and Mister, which I still enjoy very much. But the most fun was gathering up the bear essentials for Sandra. What a hoot!!!

Count me in.

Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 06:01 PM

People who have signed up already!!

Secret Santa 2003

greg stephens
curmudgeon
Alba
Bassic
Bee-dubya-ell
NicoleC
Rustic Rebel
Stilly River Sage
Tinker
Animaterra
Dani
Noreen
Edain
Big Mick
artbrooks
Sorcha
ClintonHammond
PageOfCups
RangerSteve
Helen
vectis
Rapaire
JennyO
alison
Leadfingers
harpgirl
irishajo
Partridge
Morticia
Micca
Amos
Burke
Mary in Kentucky
Kim C
Liz the Squeak
katlaughing
Giok
mooman
sian, west wales
pixieofdoom
MMario
Jeri
Tig
Sandra in Sydney
Mrs.Duck
Lyrical Lady
selby
karen k
Bat Goddess
Snuffy
Giac

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 06:07 PM

no Catspaw this year?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 06:07 PM

What happens if you end up with an odd number?

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 06:22 PM

Haven't seen Catspaw around for a while.....or I haven't been looking in the right places!!! I have quite a few volunteers who don't mind sending to 2 santees so there isn't a probelm if there is an odd number guest

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:04 PM

As far as posting early -- it may depend on your local post office or the route it takes. I've sent several packages to England, and they always arrive in less than a week. I'm not sure where our mail goes after it goes to Louisville, but it must avoid all the large cities.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:19 PM

open mike:

Did you ever rouse up Trevor and find out why? According to the lists he was your Santa. Maybe he died? Haven't heard from him 'round here in a while have we?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:36 PM

I'm in! Still enjoying my treasures from last year!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:39 PM

He didnt die, Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Mudlark
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 09:27 PM

IN, definitely in! Nathan from Texas was a wonderfully inventive SS, keeping me guessing with letters from all over the world, plus wonderful gifts as well. This is, for me, a great new holiday tradition. I had a friend visiting here in Calif. from England and she was wowed by the whole idea. Thanks Cats, for taking this on again this year. PM follows....

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 11:10 PM

CatsPHiddle, I mailed you a smallish padded envelope and was surprised to hear back from you, probably within a week, that it had arrived. Maybe the size of the package influences how fast it goes.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Amos
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 11:21 PM

Noreen:

Sorry if I stepped on an invisible toe there.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Robin2
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 11:39 PM

I'm in! I'm in! I couldn't take part last year due to the stroke, but my Secret Santa sent me goodies that cheered me into the next year. I'm excited to take part this year!

Robin2

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 04:33 AM

So - what's the cut-off point? ie. By what date do people have to declare an interest, and when are the names drawn? (I luv this stuff!)

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 08:07 AM

Whoa there Robin2 - take it easy and calm down.... we don't want a repeat now do we?

Besides, it's someone else's turn to scare us all silly.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: GUEST,SSS at work
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 10:05 AM

I would like everyone that wants in to sign up by the 5th October then the PMs with who you are sending to will be sent out about a week after.

Khatt

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 05:01 PM

Put me on the list again, I love this!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: bet
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 06:55 PM

Khatt, Somehow I missed it last year. I must have been up to my neck in Christmas programsssssss! I'd love to be in on it this year. What do I need to do besides keep checking this thread for up-dates? bet

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Helen
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 08:27 PM

In Oz if we are sending parcels overseas, and can't afford to send by airmail and have to send by sea then we are told to allow a few weeks for the U.S. and the Brits & Ireland. Maybe 4 weeks if you are optimistic and 6 is a fairly safe bet.

If it gets there earlier than that then it is the luck of the draw, because they usually have to wait until the container is full enough to make it worthwhile to send. It used to be that ship mail ("whale mail"?) was the most common and therefore it was sent almost as quickly as you posted it. Now airmail ("albatross mail"?) is more common and so there is no delay in actually getting it in the air.

Airmail can be sent economy rather than premium in Oz and this can add a few days to the arrival time. Airmail letters I have sent to the U.S. have arrived within 10 days usually, and 7 is the record for me.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Gloredhel
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 02:14 AM

Yippeee! Count me in!

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 04:43 AM

HI Bet

Just PM me with your snail mail address and then I will be in touch via PM later with more details!

Khatt

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 03:14 PM

~Refresh~

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Bardford
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 05:49 PM

Hey - I'm in again this year. Same address, etc.

Thanks for taking this on again, CatsPHiddle.

Bardford

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 12:39 AM

Sent an email. I'm in for this again! Thanks for doing this.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 06:48 AM

im in santa knows where to come

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: sian, west wales
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 03:35 PM

I have just had an order delivered from Amazon and am now the possesser of a Most Excellent Cardboard Box. This has been stashed away safely for Christmas gifts: the mailing thereof.

Roll on, Santee!

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: rock chick
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 05:32 PM

ok cont me in catsPHiddle, i will pm my details to you, this sounds fun

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 11:49 AM

refreshing

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: Gloredhel
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 07:26 PM

I got two nifty CD's last year that I would probably have never bought for myself, and some pretty swell stuff the year before that too--all the way from Bethlehem! (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that is... *grin*)

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: black walnut
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 04:02 PM

Is it just juggle the names in a hat and see who gets matched up with whom? Or is there more to it? I think I'm in.

~b.w.

Subject: RE: BS: Secret Santa Time Again!
From: CET
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 05:46 PM

I thought about it last year. Now I think it's time to take the plunge. I will PM details.