Katharina emailed me a few months ago asking me to run the hatrack gift exchange this year. Everyone who signs up will be giving and receiving a gift. It’s lots of fun, last year we had over 75 entries. I’m trying to get it going earlier this year so you have two weeks to sign up and extra time to pick out and purchase gifts.
Gifts: Please spend close to $10, absolutely no more than $20. Home made gifts and gifts that are local to your area are the most fun. There will be a thread where you can say what you want, or at least your favorite colors and things you can’t have. Last year I got gorgeous yarn from Coccinelle, the year before I got nut butters from Plaid.
November 13th: Deadline to sign up To sign up please email hatrackfestivus@gmail.com with your mailing address, intent to participate, and special requests (only from your country, no college students, allergies). If you are a college student, include both addresses just in case, or just the home one if that’s what you want. If you have some special situation like you are leaving for a mission, or traveling most of the holiday, you can still participate, just let us all know.
November 17th: Everyone will receive an email with their match. Please reply to that email as soon as possible after you get it.
December 2nd: Mail gifts to college students (yes that will be listed in your info)
December 9th: All presents must be mailed. When you have mailed your present please email hatrackfestivus@gmail.com again.
When you receive your gift, please email once more letting us know that, then post in the “what I got thread” and reveal who it was. If you haven’t received a gift by December 24th email again and the hatrack angels will be notified.
In your emails, please include your Hatrack SN, because while I may be stalking you, I don't absolutely know your name.
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With moving last year and all I got a bit sidetracked, and then I for got to put postage on my package (or something like that) and it got sent back to me.....TomD got his present, but really late.
I still use the key fob I got for my gift last year, every day.
Glad to see this back, it is a great idea. Count me in! I promise to remember the postage this time.
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I just want to let you know that while it's wonderful that you all are posting in the thread, it'd be more wonderful if you emailed. So far only two people who posted here have emailed. I'll take questions both on here and in email.
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Like it says in the first post, I am reogranizing to keep this safe and legal, please don't email until I change the thread title back.
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I'm trying to decide if I want to do this again... it's always a lot of fun... hmm. I'll let you know!
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I've been wondering when this woul be brought up. I'm in. Will email when thread title is changed.
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I would like to send gifts to two people, if it's possible: my gifter last year and my giftee, if he is still hatracking. And I don't necessarily need to get a present either. I'd just like to make amends for last year when a death in the fmaily and illness made life crazy, and I couldn't hold up my end of the bargain.
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It wasn't me, I do have addresses for both of yours though, shoot me an email and I'll get those to you.
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Ok, you can email if you'd like now. Sorry for the inconvience there was just a little blip I needed to research and ask a few people about. So far, so good.
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This was so much fun last year! My tootsies are still loving their green booties -- when I can get 'em off my son's feet! We'll play! *smile*
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Breyerchic is so much more organized than I am.
I'm signing up. Also, I got a letter from Zevvy, who will be back December 22. He wants to play, too. I'll send his address in Austrailia - maybe he could be paired up and notified early?
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So, um, when are we going to start the "read about your giftee" likes/dislikes/allergies thread? Maybe some time between the 13th adn 17th?
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I was planning on starting it on the 11th or 12th, so people could get their info on the list before the 17th. Yeah, I have a list in my notebook of what posts to make when, it's a bit obbsessed.
I even have checked the email address from last year, just to make sure no one had emailed it instead.
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Weird thought, but i remember last year a few people got repeats from the year before -- do we want to try to avoid that this year? We could post in this thread who we had --- although keeping track of all of that might be sort of daunting...
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breyerchic made a spreadsheet last year of who had who, so she can make sure repeats don't happen. Amazing. So organized. Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
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