Count me in, too, folks.

As my gift to whoever is to be my recipient, I'll bow to their tastes and preferences in gifts, of course.
For my part, I have become involved, over the last few years in the "Alternative Gift Market." (I think they have a website at alternativegifts.org or something like that.)
The idea is to give donations to people's preferred charities in lieu of the usually unneeded and often unusable material gifts that we often send each other.
(How many more scarves do I need that don't go with anything in my closet, or how many calendar organizers can I use in a given year?)

I mention this, not to dampen the enthusiasm of folks who like to exchange stuff--I often find that fun, too, if I really know what a person will like--, but to add another dimension to the gift exchange idea. Alternative Gift Market has some great nonprofit organizations to support for humanitarian and environmental and public health causes, etc., and it can be handled just as other gift exchanges. That is, for example, I can tell folks what my pet projects are (and vice versa) and when people make the donations, they send a card telling about the project supported.

It's just one of several options, like the idea above of sending what my sister calls, I think, "fraggle gifts"--things you have received that are lovely (but not suitable for you, yourself) on to someone else.

Anyway, the Secret Santa idea sounds like a smashing idea!

Genie