TacomaWorld Secret Santa 2019 ***NAME SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED***

Got mine giftee some stuff heading his way this week as well. Not a ton to go off of so hopefully he likes it.

Edit @TWSS

Edit again: They have received the gifts and posted!

 

Someone more than a 30 minute drive from my house will be getting something in the near future....

 

Eventually, someone on Earth will get something sometime.

 

At least 2 separate shipments on the way to my victim, with at least 1 more to go.

 

One thing I hope all you Amazon type realize is that the most impactful part of a TWSS I've received was the hand written note I got from my 2016 Santa. No one remembers the coolest gift card they ever got or that time Prime delivered ditch lights on Sunday.

I remember the garbage plate and hot sauce I got from a dude in Rochester because it was personal. The gift is long gone and so is the TW member but I still remember how much fun it was to open a gift that someone cares enough to put together to represent things they enjoyed.

 

I showed my wife the Secret Santa threads and she knows what to look out for
and since the last unexpected delivery I have been put on restriction from receiving or opening deliveries

but today she acted fishy when we came home and our headlights hit some boxes at the door, and she rushes them off to parts-unknown in the house

I will probably not do this again next year. this has given her a perfect opportunity to place orders for... only god knows what

she has admitted to one of the boxes being from "somewhere" and it contained "something" and that it was, in fact, addressed to our home and had my name on it. so it's not a mis-delivered package.

but past that, nothing. no further information has been forthcoming.

So, whoever has drawn me for this seasons Christmas gift exchange, I am about 80% certain that one of the packages you sent arrived today.

No, I cannot send a photograph of the box that arrived. I have no idea where it's located, and I don't want to wake up to my wife hitting me for snooping around.

But I'm also 100% certain that I saw about eight boxes at the door. And the more I think about it, the less I find it likely that all of them are from TWSS activities.

Now I'm scared to look at activity on my bank accounts.

edit: I re-read what I typed. it sounds like a Dear Abbey letter.

Now I'm drinking more beer. This might be a cry for help.

 

As wonderful as that would be to have hand written notes and thoughtful gifts and kumbaya around a campfire, the reality is a lot of people just don't care that much. Sometimes we're lucky if people even send a gift card. In this economy, you have to realize most people are in it for the getting and it's just a hoop to jump through to send a gift.

Call me cynical but people as a whole suck. Old folk will say back in my day... Nah people as a whole still sucked. There are some bright shining stars but... Eh this is getting too long.

Short of it is people on TW are some of the best forum people I've seen, there's some aggrevations sometimes but we're all still here for a reason. Keep those awesome gifts flowing, You don't know who's day you'll make with your gift be it a gift card or your blood sweat and tears.

 

Got my gift to send to my TWSS today. Ordered from Amazon but I had it sent to me so I could wrap it in festive xmas paper with my weak wrapping skills and ship out to him. Should arrive late next week

 

I put a note in my recent and last shipment. My hand writing is absolute shit though, so I typed it. I did, at least, sign it!

 

That’s a super pretty color though

 

Tell her that Santa will straighten her out if she doesn’t hand over your secret Santa gifts

 

Adulting is super expensive!

I like the newer Lexi (Lexuses?). I really like the RC F but those are crazy money

 

That would be a great choice.

 

Gifts are outbound, to someplace considerably West of Maine

Big fan of the Orangutan, but I'm an extra medium.
Good luck to a Large person!

 

the entire US is west of Maine