Secret Santa - Christmas Gift Exchange or, "How to have a Mini Christmas!"

[Revfan]

Ok guys... here is the idea

Basically, its one of the only ways to ENSURE you get some cool Lead (possibly plastic) for Christmas!  

Here is how it would work...

Anyone who wants to sign up, just says "I am in" on this thread, then PMs me their info* later.  Once the Registration period is over... say end of November, I'll send everyone who is playing ONE address to send a Secret Santa Gift to.  Each person is responsible for sending a gift of nominal value (determined by the group) to the individual he has an address for.... Everybody reports here in the secret Santa thread when there gift arrives, and what it was, and after everyone gets theirs, we can "reveal" who we were the secret Santa too.

The points to stress are
1) The person receiving the gift doesn't know who the giver is (until revealed after date specified by group)

2) You only buy ONE gift for ONE recipient (and you only GET ONE gift from ONE sender)

3) Gifts should have a value that is pre-determined buy the group... that is, if we say $20 or so. Your gift can be worth more if you want, but the minimum value is just to make it equitable for all players.  You don't even have to buy anything...   You can grab a few figures (painted unpainted) throw em in a box and mail em off... done.  It can be anything Mini/LAF related Paints, Brushes, Games, Rules, Dice, Figures, etc etc etc....

4) Gifts must go out by a certain date December 7, to ensure they arrive before Christmas. (hard to enforce, but try to meet the sending deadline.)

It usually takes about 10 to make it worthwhile, and I will try to keep US Folks Together and Euro folks together so there is no crazy transatlantic shipping charges to worry about.

We will close "sign ups" on November 15 to give the mailing system time to get the packages to their recipients.

PLEASE FORMAT YOUR ADDRESS AS TO HOW IT SHOULD APPEAR ON A LABEL

Every county's postal system seems to want it different, and while yours seems natural to you, for somebody else, from a different place in the world, it might look strange.
*info
Mailing address
Name/Forum Name
Areas of Interest for Figs

[Revfan]

Off to a Great start!

So far, here is the Secret Santa List
Sandycats
Dentatus
Irishvince
Malebolgia
Jase
elbows
Tyrionhalfman
robh
fairoaks024
affun
Estarriol
Archie
Wolfen
wolfie907
SBRPearce
LordOdo
Revfan

Otherworld


If you are playing, please send/PM me your

Screen Name
Real Name
Mailing Address (Please Format this as to how it should be address... 1st Line, 2nd Line, 3rd... etc)
Areas of Interest for Minis (this "may" help your secret santa select the right gift)

[LordOdo]

Oooh, this should be fun!

I'm in! 

[otherworld]

Sounds like fun, count me in.

[wolfie907]

Im interested

[Sandycats]

I'm in!!

[Jase]

I'm in too, sounds like a great idea!

[Malebolgia]

Yeah, I'm in!

[Dentatus]

Count me in.

[Irishvince]

I'm so in!


Will you try to minimize the shipping cost by paring people from nearby countries?

[Psychoflexible]

Can I steal the idea for a french forum ?

[Estarriol]

I need a good excuse to do some hobbling in!

[affun]

If it is possible to get someone within EU, I am in

[Revfan]

Hey Guys
My plan is to keep the EU guys together, and the Americas guys together... if possible.

You don't have to send a kitchen sink or a kilo of minis... (although, if you really wanted to send me a kilo of minis, I'll split the shipping cost with ya!)

Psychoflexible
Can I steal the idea for a french forum ?

French forum... ?  A French Mini forum?

You can steal the idea, if you participate here too!


ALSO

I have only posted this here in the Fantasy Adventures Area... should I link to it in some of the other sub forums?  I don't know what the rules are about cross pollinating threads for a topic like this (Mods?)

[wolfen]

Count me in. I have participated in a secret Santa for a few years on another forum that I don't visit a lot anymore so it would be nice to continue over here.