Shhhhh! Santa's Secret Workshop
It's that time of year again for Secret Santa
I will not be participating this year but I wanted to organize it so everyone will be surprised at the gifts they receive. You will however receive a Christmas card from me if you participate 
Here's what should be included in the Secret Santa package:
1 hand written letter/Christmas card
(share your chicken scratch it's more personal and also you might want to include a Christmas memory whether it's funny,sad,bad,great)
1 book(new or used)
1 local item
As much candy or treats that are local (hehehe)
$20 dollar limit (Keep in mind this is not including shipping costs)
Try to keep with the Christmas theme in the items you buy as much as possible. You are also not limited to the items posted above. Homemade items are encouraged and try to really get something you think your giftee will like and enjoy.
If you want to participate post in this thread with the following info:
Whether you can ship internationally or not:(International/States Only)
-T-Shirt size: (Some people like sending shirts so clarify what sizes you wear)
-3 items you would like (keep the budget in mind)
-3 books you would like to read
-3 of your fun/hobby interests (this is to give all the secret santa's a better idea of what other items to get you)
Also if you Secret Santa's have any other specific questions for your giftees pm them to me and I will post those questions here or pm the giftee so you can get those special gifts.
Deadline to post in here to participate is: Nov.18
You will be assigned your giftee: Nov. 20
Gifts should be sent by: Dec. 10
One last tip:
Do not put anything illegal in the packages
It's a no brainer really but yeah this is to ensure that all the packages make a safe trip and that the giftee won't end up with something they might have to dispose of.
Let the Santa's roll in!
I'm excited about this! c:
-medium
-things for my walls, knitted things, hair bows?
-old fairy tale books, Krakauer, your inner fish- shubin
-video gamin', gettin' artsy, hikin', nappin'
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
Woohoo! Cammie!Here's your Secret Santa hat
I'm not participating but I'll send everyone cards.
Here's a lil santa's helper hat for you Irina
Argh, still no job, so I won't be participating. Sad me. 
Aww booo
can i have a hat and then decide if i can actually participate in a few days? 
NO! That tiny hat is mine.
Ok, I just remembered I'm getting my scholarship in a couple weeks. SO I'M IN! Am I regular enough now?
In.
shirt large.
I rather be surprised by everything else.
I haven't decided yet. I'm all excited wanting to say YES! but the little voice in the back of my head keeps reminding me of how stressed out I've gotten in every other gift exchange I participated in and how I swore I wouldn't do another one after it was over.
I think it is the deadline part of the whole thing. The deadline freaks me out.
Here is a mini Santa hat for you Berto
You have a week to decide if you want the big boy Santa hat or not
Here is your big girl hat
and you just need to post your info now
shirt large.
I rather be surprised by everything else.
Here is your Sandy Claws hat!
T-shirt: XS
Books: Warmed and Bound (I must be the last Cultie who hasn't read it yet), The Chronology of Water, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller 1932-1953.
Likes: Dali, crafts, languages
Items: accessories or whatever else any of you might think I'd like
International packages are opened at my post office, in front of me. Please take that into account.
shirt large.
I rather be surprised by everything else.
Here is your Sandy Claws hat!
I will make you proud!
damn and you quoted my you're/your fuck up! hahaha oh well
What are you talking about?
I just got here, but from what I've read, this is your you're/your fuck up.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
No I fixed it for her. lol
shirt large.
I rather be surprised by everything else.
Ditto, except size small for the shirt that may or may not be in my Christmas future.
;)
Way to make me look crazy-er Pete.
I also like really huge cheap sweaters from goodwill. so if you'd rather forgo the medium tshirt and buy me huge ugly sweaters I can wear to class with tights that'd be cool.
and actually, I'm just gonna go start buying them. you also don't have to follow any rules with me, I'll love anything someone gets me and cherish it forevers.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
shirt large.
I rather be surprised by everything else.
Ditto, except size small for the shirt that may or may not be in my Christmas future.
Woohoo! Another sexy santa. Here's your hat, it's the only black and white one I could find.
I'm in and I will ship internationally. I will say again that I don't agree with the $20 limit and I will probably ignore it again. I'll post the other stuff later.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Well think of the 20 dollars as a minimum then, here's your hat!
I'm in! I just thought of this the other night and hoped I hadn't missed the deadline yet. Glad to see I didn't because I love giving gifts!
-I'll have to opt out of international again since we're trying to save for a new place. 
-large
-handmade things, incense, crafty stuff
-anything by Will Christopher Baer, Craig Clevenger, or Richard Matheson (or surprise me, because I can always use more reading material!)
-hiking, photography, baking
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
Eeeeeee that hat was made for me!
-I'll have to opt out of international again since we're trying to save for a new place.
-large
-handmade things, incense, crafty stuff
-anything by Will Christopher Baer, Craig Clevenger, or Richard Matheson (or surprise me, because I can always use more reading material!)
-hiking, photography, baking
Yay more Santas! Here's your special hat
I guess I wear a large t shirt these days, please refrain from buying girly tees. Those things are always too short for me.
I would like any three things I get.
Any of the books om 1001 books that I haven't read yet would be nice, I would also like to read Slut Lullabies.
I'm into art, music and books. My favorite bands are bad religion and lucero.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
oooh I've been meaning to get slut lullabies.
“if you want to be a bird,” you said once, “with colorful plumage and buoyant trills, you must also be ready for hollow bones."
I'm in.
T-shirt: I wear S-M shirts. (Skinny but tall sort of thing)
Items: I like being surprised by weird stuff. No holds barred.
Books: Women (Bukowski), Naked Lunch (Burroughs), Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonneueuguetteheu?)
Hobbies: Music, scotch... man, what else do I do?
EDIT: Anything hot rod related.
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Awesome cars, Anthony.
wut?
EDIT: Oh yeah.
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T-shirt: I wear S-M shirts. (Skinny but tall sort of thing)
Items: I like being surprised by weird stuff. No holds barred.
Books: Women (Bukowski), Naked Lunch (Burroughs), Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonneueuguetteheu?)
Hobbies: Music, scotch... man, what else do I do?
EDIT: Anything hot rod related.
They didn't have a blues bros. Santa hat but I did find one with sideburns. Rock it out Tony
I'm excited for this.
I wear a large shirt.
I can't think of any particular items I'd want to receive, but I'm sure whatever you fine people send will be awesome.
I love to read books about science(mostly evolution and anthropology). And I like most types of fiction. I like getting books I've never heard of and ones with great cover art. I also collect old sci-fi books both by the big authors and less known weirder books.
Describing what I like is surprisingly hard.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
T-shirt: I wear S-M shirts. (Skinny but tall sort of thing)
Items: I like being surprised by weird stuff. No holds barred.
Books: Women (Bukowski), Naked Lunch (Burroughs), Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonneueuguetteheu?)
Hobbies: Music, scotch... man, what else do I do?
EDIT: Anything hot rod related.
They didn't have a blues bros. Santa hat but I did find one with sideburns. Rock it out Tony
Which is sort of weird, cause just yesterday I was saying if I didn't make it as a gemologist, I'd become the world's worst naked Elvis impersonator, and I'd need fake sideburns to pull it off.
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I wear a large shirt.
I can't think of any particular items I'd want to receive, but I'm sure whatever you fine people send will be awesome.
I love to read books about science(mostly evolution and anthropology). And I like most types of fiction. I like getting books I've never heard of and ones with great cover art. I also collect old sci-fi books both by the big authors and less known weirder books.
Describing what I like is surprisingly hard.
I had to make someone wear this hat Wear it proud Steve
-Medium
-Warmed and Bound or any book from the Velvet.
-Send something handmade if your feeling antsy.
-I like writing and reading of course so use your imagination
Jaz, how do we get assigned giftees?
Do people know jack better than I do? We've always excluded people who aren't that involved in the forums and I would think he is one of them, but maybe I just haven't been paying attention.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I was cultie of the week. Buy your own damn presents then.
Everyone has been cultie of the week.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I got into Secret Santa like two months after I joined. And if I'm thinking of the right person, Jack is pretty involved. I'm not 100% though.
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." -Carl Sagan
"Am I cruel? Probably. Is she an idiot? Yes." -jane s.
It's not about how long you've been around, it's about how well people know you and how well you know them. If I got jack, who I don't know at all, I would be disappointed because it wouldn't be nearly as much fun, I all ready have ideas for everyone else, but I don't known anything about him.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Well whatever I won't participate. Ass.
I'm not being an ass, I'm bringing up a valid point.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
You ruined my christmas spirit. Girls are evil, theres a valid point.
Secret Santa is sending you a c**t punt this year and you can guess who it's from.
Well that's a fantastic way to get people to want to buy you presents. Someone might've argued for you before you pulled that.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I'm going to do this yet but I want a hat.
Also if you want a Christmas Card go ahead and pm me your address if I don't have it already