(Discussion) Secret Santa 2013 is coming soon!

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Quote: Originally Posted by allistra44 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  So excited to send out my gift that I didn't even really think about the fact that I might get my own gift this week!

My mail lady/UPS guy are going to LOVE me this week. I have at least nine orders coming. One of them is actually a drum set I ordered for my boyfriend for Christmas, which should come in six big boxes (How am I going to hide that?!). 

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! 
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FYI - large items generally ship in their original boxes, since it doesn't make sense for retailers to find an even bigger box to put the box in and then you end up with box-ception. Oh, and admittedly superfluous boxes in terms of shipping. But yikes, can it ruin a surprise! I'm pretty sure a drum kit would all ship in distinctive boxes, except for maybe the smaller parts like the pedal(s) , etc, so you may want to try and make sure you're around to receive it when he's not there!

(Not participating in SS this year - maybe next year! - but love watching the fun.) 

 
Quote: Originally Posted by slinka /img/forum/go_quote.gif

@tweakabell yessssss!
Lol.

Especially since I moved out here to Utah from tx...I don't exactly fit in here, no friends :,(

Yesterday when I was at a certain store, I was getting help from the nice sales lady...she said, "oh, is this a work secret Santa or..?" I was like, "oh, um...it's online. Makeuptalk."
She tried to hide it, but I know she was, in her head, "omfg are you serious?" Lol. I made sure to buy some real-life people stuff too so I wouldn't look completely crazy and anti-social
My husband and my mom get it. They ask about you guys lol. I tried explaining it to someone else in the real world and got kinda flustered trying to explain it. We're members on a makeup board doing a secret santa gift exchange apparently was a difficult concept to grasp.

 
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Oh those people can just bite you! That is one of the nicest things I have found about getting older, everyday I feel more and more like if people want to judge me, they can kiss my ?!%. I have more important things to worry about. This may just be me though. I used to be a huge people pleaser and am slowly growing out of it.
Oh God me too.I swear I'm getting to a point of my life where F' em is my motto. Part of me hates becoming jaded and part of me is just so tired of it all and doesn't care.

 
[@]luckyme502[/@] oh I'm far beyond trying to please everyone lol. I've got tattoos that scare most all of Utah, lmao. I'm big on the shock-factor too lol- I take pride in being the local freak- a funky, alt-fashionable overall weirdo =p One day I'll meet another rainbow-strange person here in rural Mormon-land, and we'll frolic through the flds compounds down the mountain from my home together, picking flowers and painting our faces all sorts of crazy to scare the local children and elderly. No offense meant towards lds or flds members btw- believe whatever you wanna believe!- you're just everywhere around here (and you know it!) ;) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 
Yeah I have been running into that. I've gotten the strangest looks from people when talking about the secret Santa.

 
Yeah... The SAs at Lush laughed at me when I explained what and why I was looking for certain products in certain sizes. She actually laughed. Whatever lady. I told my boss at my internship this past summer that I trade make up (I don't know how that came up) and he was SUPER interested in it and made me explain to the rest of the team how/why I do that. It was really funny!

Yeah I have been running into that. I've gotten the strangest looks from people when talking about the secret Santa.
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[@]slinka[/@]. While I don't have any tattoos or dye my hair unnatural colors any more, I love seeing other's tattoos and funky hair! I had to stop with the funky hair and wardrobe for my career, which I no longer have! I do like my glittery fun nails and some of my wardrobe is more fun again now!

 
Yeah... The SAs at Lush laughed at me when I explained what and why I was looking for certain products in certain sizes. She actually laughed. Whatever lady. I told my boss at my internship this past summer that I trade make up (I don't know how that came up) and he was SUPER interested in it and made me explain to the rest of the team how/why I do that. It was really funny!
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Wow, that lush SA was a douche.
 
I figured I would treat my Santee like a member of the family and wrap the gifts accordingly (badly, sorry!) in a combination of pretty wrapping paper and fun stuff. If I got a present wrapped in Cars wrapping paper my toddler would steal it for himself, haha. That would be hilarious.  Oh, and I'm glad I'm not alone in wanting to do something nice for my SS es when this is over. I feel like we will all start the stalking process all over again!
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Lol. I feel like we all never want this Secret Santa process to end and we will continue the stalking and buying gifts for each other for any or no reason at all. It's all good. We just all love each other. This really has been super fun :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />
Yeah I have been running into that. I've gotten the strangest looks from people when talking about the secret Santa.
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ummm yeah. I haven't even mentioned it to people I work with, they'd jus think I was nuts. I did tell my younger brother about it at Thanksgiving because he just got back from traveling Germany, Finland and the United Kingdom and brought me back a ton of European cosmetic goodies!!! I was so excited, I was like omg all the girls on MUT would love all of this stuff!!! He understood and thought it was such a cool thing that strangers want to get each other gifts.
 
Quote: Originally Posted by slinka /img/forum/go_quote.gif

All those SAs are just envious that they don't have a stranger sending them a package filled with love-filled goodies!
EXACTLY! And it's their loss. They don't get to be weird with us, so
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Same here.

I went into a store today to buy something else for my giftee.

I asked the SA for some reco's about colors and flavors etc.

She asked me some questions about my giftee.

I said "I don't know, this is a Secret Santa thing".

Then the SA said "Is this for work?"

Me: "No..It's from something else".

SA: ""From where?"

Me: "Doesn't matter, too hard to explain"

SA: "Well have you met her?"

Me: "No"

SA: "Will you ever meet her?"/

Me: "Probably not. No".

SA" This is really weird"

I then went on to explain how great it is to be able to create a unique present,

carefully curated for someone you have never met and never will meet...but all you want to do is make them happy.

I could have been from Mars with Chanel nail polish and YSL lipstick, in her eyes.

 
[@]slinka[/@]. Yes, it's been a good seventeen years since I had fun colored hair. My husband and I went to high school together, so he remembers.

 
I did my tips blue last year. The kids and teachers at my daughters school loved it. I had a lady in a parking lot ask me how I did it and was then disappointed by how easy I said it was. It was really weird, I guess she was expecting something more intricate than wrap a rubber band on the end and dye?

 
Quote: Originally Posted by tweakabell /img/forum/go_quote.gif
  I did my tips blue last year. The kids and teachers at my daughters school loved it. I had a lady in a parking lot ask me how I did it and was then disappointed by how easy I said it was. It was really weird, I guess she was expecting something more intricate than wrap a rubber band on the end and dye?

Did she have really dark hair? She may have been experiencing the disappointment of once again realizing that the only way for her to achieve fun colors was to undergo extensive bleaching. =(

 
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You guys are so talented in the wrapping department. My gals were lucky they were wrapped. Ha ha ha. I've never been very good at wrapping presents.

I have been known to say that my kids have done the wrapping... when it's actually me. Just so no one laughs out loud at how bad it is.
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Nope a little darker blonde than my natural color if i remember right. Yea it sucks that dark hair doesn't show dye well and once that's bleached it's bleached.

 

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