Refuge Secret Santa - 2024: See you in November!

This makes me feel like I should do a PSA for my Secret Santa - I have a unique last name but I am not the only one with this particular name combination. Thanks to a date years ago with someone who assumed incorrectly I discovered a person with the same name as me is really into airplanes. That is not me.

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Having serious KIMO! Will be watching along this thread and definitely participating next year!

PSA for my secret santa: there are literally hundreds of young Irish men with the exact same first, middle, and last name as me. Google is not your friend.

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160 posts…I’m not sure if you fall into lurker.

Secured my gift this morning! Thought I had a good line on something splashier last night, but the Ebay price skyrocketed out of my personal range.

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I know it says 40 but how much are y’all spending…

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Nice try cops

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My house Christmas morning:

Me - ā€œNo. Seriously hon, this gift is from a girl at work who flirts with me. Definitely NOT some random internet guy from a chat room/cult whom I’ve never met or even spoken to in a real life conversation. HONEST!ā€

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I’m making mine with a crayon, everyone likes homemade better than luxury right?

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I was going to mention something about a black hat, but held off. I have a green BCN, gray BCN, white NLU and one from TGJ in blue. Don’t really have a good black hat though. Oh well.

So I think mine arrived today. Either that or I did some major drunk shopping that I have no recollection of. As it’s so far before Christmas right now (or Chanukah in my case), are we allowed to open? Or should we wait?

Totally your call. I would think people will start to trickle in this week with deal shopping and what not.
When you do open it be sure to post a picture and hopefully your Santa will reveal themselves.

Once we are all done I will post who had who.

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Just curious, @HaveOuimet, how many participants did this garner?

I have no patience.

This. Is. Awesome. Reveal yourself awesome person!

In random related news, was out for dinner and drinks in Denver tonight and randomly met someone wearing a Pasatiempo hat at the bar, in town form CA. Probably haven’t seen Oasa gear in Denver before, so this was a strange surprise.

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89 total. 5 international and 84 Americans.

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If your profile is private/hidden/whatever please do your finest and make it accessible for a wee bit. Makes digging quite a bit tougher.

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Not unlike my house yesterday afternoon.

ME: [coffee, iPad, many browser windows, notepad with names and gift ideas nearby]
WIFE: looks like you’re already shopping. Thanks honey! Who did you shop for first?
ME: um …

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I’m having mine shipped to me and then going to send closer to Christmas. Obviously I have to pay for shipping but was planning on putting a note in with mine to make a little more personal. Assuming there’s no issue with that? Not sure how this Secret Santa by mail is supposed to work

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There are no rules here. It’s the refuge.

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Would highly encourage DM’ing for post-gift-receiving reveals. Helps keep everyone else in the dark as to who does/doesn’t have them.

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