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Official 2020 Pinside Secret Santa Participants Thread

By LesManley

3 years ago


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    #477 3 years ago

    Been trapping pack rats on the property over the last week or so.
    Close enough to a chinchilla to make a Secret Santa gift?

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    #1024 3 years ago

    My secret Santa package arrived today.
    Going to put them under the tree and wait until Christmas morning.

    Thanks Santa!!!

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    #1039 3 years ago
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    #1045 3 years ago
    Quoted from LesManley:

    I've had a few inquiries and messages about shipping and deliveries times, so I wanted to make sure to post this. It wouldn't be 2020 without widespread problems, so I shouldn't be surprised, but the USPS is getting absolutely decimated this holiday season. From huge increased demand from no one shopping in person, to tons of workers calling in sick / quarantined, they are WAY behind this year to the tune of potentially millions of packages. You can read about all the fun in articles like this...
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/21/usps-delays-christmas/
    Case in point for me personally, I sent a gift out on 12/14 via 3 day Priority Mail, now 8 days later it still isn't even in the destination city yet. If you sent your SS present out via USPS recently, there is a great chance that it won't make it there before Christmas. I don't think many people anticipated that USPS Priority Mail would take 2 weeks to deliver, so it seems like more people than usual, myself included, will probably be opening their SS gifts closer to Lloyd's Orthodox Christmas January 7th date instead of on Dec. 25th.
    The way I would like to handle it is like this. USPS is delivering through Dec. 24th this year, so please give your gifts through Dec. 24th to arrive as there will be a lot of last minute deliveries this year. If after Dec. 24th your package still has not arrived, then please shoot me a message and I will track down where it is at currently and get tracking information over to you if possible so you can follow it all the way home. Thank you again for all your communication throughout this entire program and your understanding if you happen to fall into the USPS delivery purgatory category. If anyone has any other questions or concerns, please just let me know.
    To look at the bright side of things, we will now probably have more pictures of gift openings to look at for awhile after the typically busy Christmas opening and posting day.
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    Those poor chinchillas.
    I wonder how long they stay good in the mail?

    #1079 3 years ago
    Quoted from northerndude:

    I think we buy these when we're down at our place in AZ, do they have an unreal buttery flavour to them?

    Where in AZ do you have a place?

    #1155 3 years ago

    Love me some pot pies.

    #1183 3 years ago
    Quoted from Fezmid:

    Also want to give a huge shout-out to saltimbanco. I made a comment in this thread that I loved Coffee Crisp and was sad you can't get it in the States. He sent me a PM offering to send me some. I opened the package this morning and it's an entire CASE of them! Yum! There are a lot of awesome people in the world. Thank you.
    My cats thank you too - we haven't been able to throw the box away because the three of them literally take turns sleeping in it and get mad when we take it offb the table! Lol
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    Cats sure do love boxes.
    I don’t know why, but seeing pictures of cats in boxes never ceases to amuse me.

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    #1260 3 years ago

    Here’s a picture of the loot I got this year.
    I must say, my secret Santa did a very good job this year of researching/stalking me over several threads to find out what I’m into.

    Here’s a list of my loot:
    10 new pinballs and a white glove.
    Organic dog treats (we love our dogs here)
    A greyhound sticker/decal (all of our dogs are greyhounds)
    A rubber/silicone strip that I assume is used as a cushion/buffer when you take the glass off a standard pinball machine. This will be useful in the garage where we have concrete floors. The wife asked what it was and I told her it’s an S&M toy and I would show her in the bedroom later.
    A set of Rick and Morty green plastic protectors.
    An ashtray made out of Mexican coins (for those that don’t know, I’ve published several articles on the history of Mexican coinage).
    And last but not least a Larson scanner electronic soldering kit.
    Pretty awesome gifts.

    Thanks Santa!!!

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    #1294 3 years ago
    Quoted from BertoDRINK1:

    I believe these are all from my Pinside SS since no name was on the boxes.
    Amazing books. Thanks.
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    Awesome.
    My wife got me the second book for my birthday and the third for Christmas.
    I suppose she will get me this first one at some point.
    Really neat books.

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