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I may not be on here as much of late, but I'm not letting this die! One of my favorite things about this forum is the fact that this idea works at all and I LOVE seeing the gifts people come up with.
Starting a little early, I know, but that's to help make this as smooth as possible and let people have plenty of time to think about gifts.
Here's the thread for last year's and I'm copy/pasting much of it here: https://www.cj-8.com/forum/showthread.php?43486-2014-CJ-8-com-Secret-Santa-3rd-Annual
We've done this for a few years now and regardless of what anyone else thinks (and ignoring the fact that I don't actually get anything since I run the whole deal) I consider it a fun and successful annual tradition on the site now.
The gift DOES NOT have to be Scrambler or even Jeep related and it's up to you to decide if alcohol would be appropriate. The only requirement is that whatever you send has to be legal to ship and legal for the recipient to have. Hopefully there's plenty of info available via folks' posts here to help you have an idea what might work. Posting a yes/no on your post in this thread whether alcohol would be ok would be a great idea (thanks certifiablejeep for that suggestion)
Rules:
1. ONLY PAID FORUM SUPPORTERS CAN PARTICIPATE
If you haven't read it already, this is a great thread for folks to check out to understand how this forum is run, why things here are different (better) than other Jeep forums, and why we need your support for way less than the cost of a tank of gas per year:
https://www.cj-8.com/forum/showthre...p-against-please-consider-supporting-CJ-8-com
2. ANYONE PARTICIPATING MUST POST A PHOTO OF THEMSELVES WITH THEIR GIFT ASAP AFTER RECEIVING IT
It is not sufficient to simply post a picture of the gift! YOU must be in the photo to get credit for this step in order to avoid prolonged nagging and ridicule by the rest of us. In the picture with your gift, ugly Christmas sweaters, funny headwear, beer, bacon, bourbon, and/or Christmas trees will earn you extra credit (usable for nothing, but hey! Extra credit!) Aside from the fact that this is fun for folks who participate, this is really the most fun thing in this whole deal for me personally, therefore it's absolutely, 100%, completely mandatory dammit.
3. GIFT PRICE LIMIT: $25
The whole thing is on the honor system, so there's no way to enforce this, but this is just a fun thing and not meant to be "another thing I have to spend $$$$ on..." so we put this in place to keep it reasonable and allow more folks to participate. And you don't have to spend all $25 if you have a great idea for less money. On the other hand, if you want to be the guy that sends someone a fuel injected, 401 crate engine, have at it, but know you're very likely getting something $25 or less for yourself.
4. POST HERE IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE AND SEND ME YOUR NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS ON A PM ASAP - Don't make me hunt it down
Everyone should know who is in, but I'll make sure not to let anyone know who has who. I need your address to provide to your SS to get you your gift, duh. Obviously, if you ship the person the gift, they'll likely know who it came from based on the return address, but there's really no reasonable alternative system, so the fun is the anticipation of the gift and not knowing who it came from until it arrives, in that case.
5. THIS IS ON THE HONOR SYSTEM, YOU MUST FOLLOW THROUGH IF YOU GO IN
Someone WILL be screwed if you don't follow through because they will have sent a gift to someone else. I WILL let people know who doesn't follow through, if it happens. For this to be fun, everyone needs to ship their gifts by the deadline so no one is sitting around waiting after everyone else has their gift. If we start having issues with follow through, I won't keep this going. I don't want to stop doing this, so follow through.
Timing:
Participation
I need names/mailing addresses and shirt sizes PMed to me by MIDNIGHT SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15. I'd like to set this in motion earlier this year, which allows more time after you know the person's name to figure on a gift and gives everyone black Friday to do shopping, if they wanted, to get a cool deal. That means I have to have everyone's name/address in time to do the name drawing and share them out to everyone via PMs.
Gift Shipping:
Everyone must ship their gift by SATURDAY DECEMBER 12. That's all kinds of time for finding/buying/shipping gifts and leaves time for delivery prior to the big day even with weather and the shipping crunch.
Ok!
Let me know if you're in and if there's anything I forgot.
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