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04-11-2010 2:02pm#1
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Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭
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Package Rules - Will be kept to a minimum but a few are necessary
1. Please avoid sending Pet Treats and Food Items as pet allergies and food intolerances are fairly widespread now and a lot of pet owners are quite fussy about what they feed their pets anyway.
2. Please try to make sure as far as possible that items are suitable for the animal. In particular keep in mind the breed and/or size of pets if buying toys, we don’t want any dogs choking on or ingesting their Secret Santa pressies!
3. Other than this you are limited only by your imagination but keep in mind that you also have to pay for the postage of it which will depend on size and weight.0 -
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Time frame and Personal Information
I will need details of anyone participating on or before the 18th November.
Please wait until as close to this date as you can before sending your PM so that your details are kept for as short a period of time as necessary and the mods lives as disrupted for as short a period as necessary! In the mean time you can register your interest by thumbs up to this post and feel free to discuss it on this thread.
Hopefully I should be able to get all PM's back to you regarding who your gift is for on the 19th November.
Posting period will be from the 1st December untill the 4th, if at all possible please post your packages inside these dates, this gives everyone a 2 week period to find suitable pressies
and hopefully will avoid some of the pre-christmas posting rush!
The official date for opening pressies is the 22nd December as I'm sure everyone has better things to do over christmas than posting on this thread! No cheating and opening early or tearing corners off for a peek!
The information I will need is as follows
Pet Details:
Species (Dog, Cat etc),
Breed or Size (if you own a crossbred dog or feel it appropriate to give for some other reason)
Your Pet's name (optional)
Male or Female
Your Details:
Your Name:
You can provide as little information as you wish as long as the package will definately reach you. You can give your name for example as Joe Soap or Mr. J. Soap (Ms. will suffice for all ladies!)
Your Address:
You will need to provide an address at which you will definately recieve your package, you can either give your home address or a C/O (care of) address. When your details are passed on, your Secret Santa will recieve your details in the following format regardless or whether you have used your personal home address or not:
(Pet's name optional
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Attn: (Your Name)
C/O: Address you have given
This way no one will be any the wiser if you have used your home address or not and will ensure your package gets to you (especially in the case where you have used a business address).
I think thats enough information overload for the minute! Feel free to post away on this thread now 0 -
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Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 6513
Just to clarify, I won't be replying to PMs to confirm that I have recieved them in order to keep PMs to a minimum so mods can be kept in the loop. I will contact you though if you have 'thanked' the confirm post and I don't recieve a PM from you. I will also post a list of participants here on the thread closer to the 18th just in case anyone is missed and another on the 18th. 0 -
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adrenalinjunkie wrote: »Welcome to the API Official Secret Santa Thread which is in a clever disguise.
Lets get the formalities out of the way first of all.
Hurrah you used my suggestion re name Just saw this now by the way, lucky I was watching other thread! 0 -
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Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 6513
Hi folks, tomorrow is the deadline so I will post a list later of who I have so far and send a standard PM to those who expressed an interest but I haven't heard from. Mods will be sent a list of participants and when I get the go ahead everyone will be matched up.
Each user will be allocated a number which will go into a container. For multiple pets your number will go in more than once. Each pet will be given the same number followed by b, c, d etc for subsequent pets. The first number drawn determines who will buy the present and the number drawn from the second batch will determine the pet they are buying for. If you draw yourself it will be thrown back in and drawn again. The draw will be conducted by my 4 year old niece 0 -
adrenalinjunkie wrote: »The draw will be conducted by my 4 year old niece
I DEMAND an independent adjudicator.
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Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 6513
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Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 6513
Don't want to give too much away at the minute as regards info. as I don't want to make it too easy to indentify any late commers. Will post some statistics tomorrow with numbers to give everyone an idea of numbers of dogs/cats/etc involved as a bit of entertainment while waiting on mods to give the go ahead. Will do the draw around lunchtime tomorrow as I don't think mods are going to have any issues at all but best to let them have their say before the PMs go out.
If anyone wants in last minute tomorrow, before the draw is done PM me with your details and I'll let you know if it's still ok or is too late. I should be online a lot tomorrow though so should get back to you fairly quickly. After tomorrow hopefully I can relax and enjoy it with the rest of you! 0 -
Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 6513
Hellrazer and Seamus have given the go ahead, so now it's just me everyone's waiting on
We have 18 participants. An post are going to have 25 parcels floating around the country because of this thread, 20 of which will be going to dogs and the rest to cats so no-one has to go looking for presents for anything in anyway exotic! 0 -
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Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 6,935 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 6513
How are you going to divide 25 presents between 18 people? If someone has multiple pets, i presume its buy one present for one pet yeh?
People who want a present each for 2 pets will be buying 2 in return so their name is in twice and so on
(Basically there is 25 little folded up pieces of paper each in 2 mixing bowls awaiting my niece comming home from playschool!)
<ETA> It has all been checked, double checked & triple checked so the only thing that can go wrong is I'm left with the same person last in each bowl, in which case I'll have to do it again!0 -
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adrenalinjunkie wrote: »The draw has been done now! It will take me some time to get all the PMs out so bear with me
How exciting!0
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