The Momsview Secret Santa Gift Exchange works like this:

Send your questionnaires to Bea and she will divide them between Jackie and herself. This allows them both to participate. The deadline to send your completed questionnaire is Saturday, October, 18, 2008, so spread the word to anyone who might want to join. We send your recipient's questionnaire to you as quickly as we can, and match up Secret Santas with recipients. You will then be sent the name and information of the person to whom you will be the Secret Santa. You then may post clues and messages on the Secret Santa thread.

BUT REMEMBER, IF YOU FORGET TO CLICK THE ANONYMOUS FEATURE, YOU WILL GIVE YOURSELF AWAY.

The moderators will NOT be able to FIX this for you, so if you forget to use the Anonymous feature, do NOT email them to ask them to remove your post.

We recommend that you acquire YAHOO, HOTMAIL or other email addresses to send notes directly to your recipients.

REMEMBER THAT IT IS SECRET SANTA...The SECRET makes it more fun. Try hard to remain secret.

All gifts must be mailed NO LATER THAN Thanksgiving Day. November 27, 2008. If you are sending your package internationally, please mail it earlier, to assure that your recipient gets her gift by our "Do Not Open Until" date of Sunday, December 21, 2008.

The maximum amount you should spend is $35.00; please spend no less than $30.00. Consider the postage as part of that figure.... This evens out the playing field for those sending to other countries.

We want to stress that anyone who is thinking of participating NOT do so unless they are sure they can commit to it. Each year someone is very disappointed because their Secret Santa decides not to continue. Don't ruin this for another, PLEASE!!!


Secret Santa Questionnaire

Your MomsView Username:

Your e-mail address:

Your Name & Postal Mailing Address

Age:

SAHM, WAHM, or WOHM or STUDENT:---If WAHM or WOHM, kind of job you do:

Favorite Colors:

Other Favorites? Colors, styles, etc.:

Home Decor & Colors & Preferences:

Do you prefer to relax at home or be out & about? Try to explain why and what you do for fun or relaxation.

Musical Likes, if any (jazz, classical, etc.):

Do you own a CD and/or DVD player:

Book Likes (mystery, biography, romance novels, etc):

Do you collect anything? Please be specific.

Your shirt size:

Your Hobbies/Interests:

Pets you want to include?

Wants/Ideas (need more towels? perfume?, etc.):

Things to Avoid (Specific colors, allergies, don't need more earrings, hate grape jelly?, etc.):

How much time will you have to keep in touch with your match:

1. A lot

2. Some or Little

3. Quite a bit!

Would you be willing to have more than one (1) mom to buy for?

Would you be willing to ship internationally?

If you have participated in the Secret Santa Exchange before, please list those you sent gifts to:

We will try to avoid the person you were teamed with last year.

Those who are interested in being part of the Secret Santa Gift Exchange should copy and paste the above questionnaire into an email, complete the questionnaire and send it to Bea, at the following email address: B V D S 1 at Verizon dot net ---- no spaces. Bea will match each person with their recipient, and send the questionnaire to each Secret Santa. The Secret Santa is expected to send notes, and clues leading up to the actual exchange.

By Bea on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 12:19 pm:

So far these are the people who have sent their questionnaires to me.

By Dawnk777 on Friday, October 10, 2008 - 02:18 pm:

I still plan to join, but I haven't had 5 minutes to myself, to fill out the questionnaire.