Originally Posted by
Jinxy
Can't even begin to state my disappointment that neither of my Santas have bothered to post that they've received their gifts. Both would have received well and truly by now and both have been active on the site. For those of you that lurk this thread and have participated please be kind to everyone and post when you get a gift.
Spare a thought that someone from the other side of the world who went to the trouble of buying you; a stranger a gift and put thought into it, arranged shipping and tracked it's delivery. To get a big fat nudda is not in the spirit of Secret Santa. I would rather continue to buy for our local department's wishing well for kids then waste money on ungrateful people who are just plain rude.
This is the first year I've never had any of my giftees post (happened last year with 2 out of 6 too, even after I spent over $300 on postage alone!
Why bother signing up if you don't want to participate to the end?
I may be guilty of this because I stated that I got packages that were from Amazon- and when I started to open them realized that I hadn't ordered the item inside. I then also stated that I put them away for Christmas and will report back on that day once I actually open them.
Now I don't know that for sure I'm your Santee- but I will say, I made sure to at least post that I had received some things from Amazon and didn't yet know what they were.
On the flip side, I felt the same way you did until I realized my Santee had been on vacation. And I myself just returned from holiday. So while I get it, I'm just saying that some of us actually aren't opening before Christmas.
And as a second thought, I happen to know that my second secret santa has received all of their gifts but one via tracking numbers and they came in last week. No mention of anything. But I'm not sweating it because maybe they were away. Maybe they are still away. I had fun picking things and the spirit of giving was fun. Hopefully they enjoy but if not, oh well. I tried at least....