Woodbury, MN
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. If you contacted me to participate already, your name should show up in the list below and you can get all the info and follow all the happenings in the new thread I created...
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-2018-pinside-secret-santa-participants-thread
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HO, HO, HO!
Now that Halloween has passed, we can officially set our sights on Christmas and with that comes the 2nd Annual Pinside Secret Santa Program! I offered this up as a suggestion last year to see if people were interested and we had 61 Pinsiders who wanted to give it a try. People really had a good time with it, we didn't have any Grinches in the group, everyone came through with gifts and only one package was even delivered late...and that package was coming from Europe, so overall it was a rousing success. Because of that, let's give it a another go this year and see if we can put even more smiles on people's faces come Christmas morning. I'll keep the Secret Santa sign up open until Sunday night, November 11th, at that point I have to close it down so I can send out Secret Santa information and people can start buying their gifts. Once the sign up period has ended, I will create a new thread for all the participants and link to it in this thread.
If you are totally unfamiliar with what this SS Program entails, here is a quick synopsis:
Everyone who chooses to participate is put on the list and sends me the information requested below. Once I have everyone's information, I will randomly choose recipients for each Santa. Every Santa will receive the list of suggestions and address of their recipient. They then locate gift(s) and send to their recipient. Everyone who participates will send a gift(s), and receive a gift(s) to open whenever they choose to hopefully bring some additional cheer to them this holiday season.
If you want to check it out further or you just want to relive all the joy we had last year, here is the Secret Santa thread from 2017...
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/official-2017-pinside-secret-santa-participants-thread
If you want to participate here is what I need from you...
Your full name and mailing address
Your email address
Your shirt size
Suggestions: I suggest providing a list of ideas to help your Santa out, but ultimately your Santa will decide what to give you. Not required, but if you update your collection on Pinside, include your games in the e-mail to me and/or mention that you also like arcade games, that could also help give your Santa ideas and direction. Please don't come into this with expectations, or have hard feelings if it's not anything on your list, just enjoy what's received. This is as fun of an experience as you make it!
I think that's everything. I'll update usernames from PMs as they come in in this thread as well, so everyone knows I got their message and that they are included. Feel free to post in this thread that you are participating to encourage others to do so as well if you want. The more the merrier!
Current 2018 Secret Santa participants:
1 2Kaulitz
2 acitti
3 action76
4 Aflacjack
5 Arcade
6 ArcadeTechNerd
7 balt
8 bbriese
9 Ben1981
10 BertoDRINK1
11 bicyclenut
12 bladerunner
13 blondetall
14 BlueIrocGuy
15 BubbaBeast
16 Capinball
17 Charliew65
18 chubtoad13
19 cjmjmm2006
20 cletus14
21 coindork
22 Coz
23 davidldennis
24 Dee-Bow
25 Derick2k
26 dnapac
27 docquest
28 dondon4720
29 drunkbaby
30 Ericc123
31 EvanDickson
32 FatPanda
33 Fezmid
34 fiberdude120
35 fosaisu
36 fxdwg
37 gentrsa
38 gliebig
39 h8breed01
40 HighVoltage
41 hogbog
42 homegameroom
43 HotPieceOfSass
44 Insane
45 Isochronic_Frost
46 j_m
47 Jaeg
48 Jawa
49 Jgel
50 joefox22
51 jp1985
52 Lame33
53 LesManley
54 Liftserv
55 Litedpinballmods
56 mario_1_up
57 Matesamo
58 MeNaCeFiRe
59 mercat
60 mickey
61 modfather
62 MrsPin
63 Mudflaps
64 Muskie82
65 NeilMcRae
66 newovad
67 NintenBear
68 northvibe
69 Outlanes
70 pacmanretro
71 Pball
72 Pdxmonkey
73 Phat_Jay
74 Pinballlew
75 PinballStar
76 PinbBackpacker
77 pinjunky
78 Pinsterwmass
79 Pintor
80 Pinzap
81 PismoArcade
82 puck
83 pzy
84 RCA1
85 RobertWinter
86 Rock914
87 rodcom
88 SarverSystems
89 SKWilson
90 Snux
91 Soapman
92 Stosel
93 stpcore
94 swinks
95 the96stang
96 TheHueManatee
97 Tomass
98 tomdtocom
99 TrixTrix
100 troxel
101 Tyamry
102 V_piscopo
103 Waderade812
104 Wharhed
105 Whysnow
106 Wolfmarsh
107 Xerico
108 ypurchn
109 ZEN
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