TacomaWorld Secret Santa 2016: What Did Santa Bring photo and BS thread

@theredofshaw may get a package soon

 

Looks like @Benson X got his and already ate it

 

How many are left?? We should be getting close to 30 or less

 

Im mobile so without counting them by hand idk, but we should be getting close to that number
We've also been asking for people to Pm us tracking info if they have shipped, so the numbers should be less than 30 if you account those

 

Maybe it's just me but it seems like some of these packages are skirting the $20 minimum. I know that the price of gifts isn't everything but I'd hope that in the future people who aren't in a position to meet the minimum choose not to enroll in TWSS. Call me a grinch if you want

 

Says 40 left but a few on the list have already gotten their stuff and posted pics so around 30 I'd say

 

Agree with this to an extent.

It definitely is a buzz kill when someone spends a lot of time and energy picking a gift for someone ($5, $50, or $500) and they receive it and their person is super stoked on it, and then they get their gift and it's something they can't use or something that has no obvious effort put into it. I think the biggest bummer isn't in the monetary value of what people get, but in the assumed lack of effort some are putting into their gifts, whether or not they're trying to hit the jackpot with someone else and walk away like a bandit, or not.

Definitely not what TWSS was intended for, it's about giving - nobody should be concerned with what they get. If that was the reality of it, then everybody would be getting great gifts regardless of what the cost was because (a) they're a gift from a stranger and (b) hopefully they have some thought behind them which is more valuable than the price tag.

All that aside, $20 minimum is what it is. If someone gets a $20 gift card and someone else gets a supercharger, that's how the cards fall.

 

i was excited, thinking the mail man came already...walked all the way to the box and nothing

 

You said what I was thinking so much better than I attempted to.

 

Word.

The shirt was an example of something with effort behind it that exceeded it's purchase price. That's what makes a great gift.

Getting $20 worth of Sharpie markers like will spoil the TWSS idea for many, and rightly so. Both meet the requirements, but obviously $20 in one hand can't be measured by $20 in the other and the gifts will reflect that.

I'd like to see more creativity and more personal gifts than anything high dollar.

It's easy to spend money, it's not easy to get a great gift.

 

Speaking of great gifts...the requested daylight pic.

 

Sick!!

 

I understand some of the concerns here, however, refer to the sign up thread, 1st post here:

 

Will be checking TW every 10 minutes starting tomorrow morning in anticipation for my person to get their gift. I'm always more excited to see people get their gifts at Christmas than myself!

 

just bills today maybe it'll show later?

 

reminding myself to reply to this when i'm home.

 

It is never easy and often impossible to understand what might be happening in another person's life. For some $20 could reflect more of a sacrifice for them then if someone else spent $2000. The spirit of TWSS is what you give, not what you receive. The nature of human beings is that some will give more than they can afford and some will be hurt by what they receive. Sometimes you are ahead of the game, sometimes you are behind. Most of the time the race is more with yourself than with others. Hopefully people sign up for TWSS for the right reasons and I think the vast majority do. I think and hope selfish people tend not to want to participate in things like this. I spent too much and received too much but I was most happy with hopefully spreading some joy to someone I have never met and probably won't ever meet. I would have loved to see their expression when they opened the package. That is what drives me to return each year.

 

Excellent points across the aboard James.
Basically just saved me a ton of typing and all you from another one of my "book like" posts in here.


The only thing I might add is that sometimes unforeseen events happen. Some of our participants have family that have fallen ill, themselves have fallen ill, or maybe in the recent month have had hard times put upon them due to uncontrollable variables.

Maybe it's just the optimist in me, but I'd like to believe out of the 200+ participants, we don't have anyone that joins just to receive a gift more valuable than they intend on sending.

Even the "Bad Santas" have stories, unfortunately we have not heard them. Some things are not meant for a internet forum to know. I mean, look at @AR15xAR10 . He hasn't joined TWSS the past 4 years because he's scared to give out his address.