The first year my secret santa recipient posted a bunch of photos and talked about how cool the stuff was. I was pumped that he liked it so much.

Last year I spent even more time on the package; wrapping things individually, putting cool stuff all over the box, picked out some things that I thought they would really enjoy and so on. I then spent weeks waiting in the Secret Santa thread for them to post what they thought but they never did, up until the day the thread stopped getting replies I would get excited when I saw the green "new post" thread indicator thinking that maybe this would be the recipients post.

Hopefully this year my recipient posts about what they got, it really completes the whole event!

My package arrived yesterday and I held out around 3 minutes before digging in, lol.

The box had a nice note written on it making it clear there was better things inside than AT&T hardware.

First off was a very nice card, can’t go wrong with the personal touch! The first two things were for my kids. With everything in the world available to them they still got excited by a candy toy that has a laser pointer built in, lol.

There was a Major League tshirt, a deluxe pingulp with decals for two of my machines, a Bluetooth Star Wars speaker, a copy of Coin-Op Carnival (already owned some will be passed on to a worthy pinball fan) and a set of Mandolarian trading cards. These cards are part of TOPPS print on demand service which it really awesome. We will be reviewing them on our YouTube channel soon.

It was a lot of fun opening the items and it is clear that the Secret Santa put a lot of thought and heart into the items. Very nice and thank you.

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Last year the recipient of my gifts didn't post any photos or even comment that he got them which was a bummer as I individually wrapped them, wrote little notes on each one, wrote quotes around the box (inside and out) that I shipped in and really tried to make it a fun thing to open. I checked for weeks until I realized it wasn't going to happen.

I will help out on the replacement gift; either getting something myself or helping to cover the cost.

Ok, this has now officially gotten out of control!