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Hey there folks. Hopefully everyone has had a moment to digest their tryptophan filled celebratory nosh or at least taken a breather from deleting black friday texts and emails and is now leaning back and basking in the warm glow of thanks we have for this awesome collecting community. Whether it is vintage, customs, knockoffs, or modern toys that fuel your passion, we are definitely in a golden age for the MEGO at heart.
and....
it is that time of year again.
I am coordinating a name swap for folks who want to exchange gifts to fellow MEGOheads as a Secret Santa.
Anyone who wishes to participate needs to send an EMAIL to justrche@yahoo.com by FRIDAY - Dec 2. (please don't use the pm system here, as I want to keep track of this over the holidays and my PM box will just fill up.) I am going to close this up on Saturday the 3rd and email the participants with their recipient that day. Hopefully that should give everyone enough time to run to Target or Walmart and get to the mailbox, so get your names and wish lists in now. Alternate suggestion for those that are still keeping fairly distanced is to order goodies and then drop ship your gift to whomever is your recipient.
To participate in the gift exchange, I will need:
- your Mego Museum handle AND your name that the local postal authorities will deliver to.
- your postal address. (this will only go out to the person who draws your name for SS)
- a wish list; but remember - not everyone is loaded with extra Zorros and Secret Identity kits, and what you receive may be nowhere near what you put on your list. It is nice to dream, tho.
I will mix the names up and pull from a hat to draw for who gets who. I actually use a hat for this and my son, Cip, helps me out with the drawing. To be honest, he is deep in the throes of his teenage angst right now, and I will have to extract him from whatever digital device he is staring at, but he will come through and yank the names for me. I will email everyone back on Saturday the 3rd with their info for their SS recipient. I am getting older and a bit more forgetful and sometimes I fall asleep early, so it might be Sunday.
Wrap gifts as you see fit, and try to be polite about it; the person you are giving to may want to stick it under their tree where their kids or grandkids can see it.
According to the USPS website, gifts should hit the post office by the 15th of December so that they get there before the needles start falling off of the tree. (if you are a true procrastinator, priority says it will get there if posted by the 20th) I don't know how much I trust that info this year with the recent change in postal stuffs and all the cargo delays, but do what you can. If we have anyone in Europe who wants to play this year - well, sometimes this works out as a jolly new year instead.
Please let me know when you have POSTED or RECEIVED a present. It is also nice to post a pic or a thanks or something in this thread indicating your gift arrived and did indeed survive the postal crush.
I will send out a reminder as we get close to December 15th, but really - this is a fun thing and I am a volunteer coordinator, not a watch dog. So if you can't get to the post office with a gift in the next couple of weeks.....
Feel free to use this thread to post up pictures of your gifts and many back-slappings and guffaws can be had then.
Please use your best judgement on value. There is no limit if you are feeling generous, but please remember we do not all live in Wayne Manor. Considering all the hubbub about the new50th anniversary World's Greatest Super Heroes at WalMart this year, that is probably a good yardstick for a gift, not to mention the many awesome newMEGO sellers that have been helping everyone out over the past few years. There are several good names to chose from if you go the mail order route and they may just have the right thing from a recent or past wave of MEGOcorp releases.
If you can please post pictures of stuff you got.
and above all else
have a GOOD time
Happy Holidays to all!
-rche
and....
it is that time of year again.
I am coordinating a name swap for folks who want to exchange gifts to fellow MEGOheads as a Secret Santa.
Anyone who wishes to participate needs to send an EMAIL to justrche@yahoo.com by FRIDAY - Dec 2. (please don't use the pm system here, as I want to keep track of this over the holidays and my PM box will just fill up.) I am going to close this up on Saturday the 3rd and email the participants with their recipient that day. Hopefully that should give everyone enough time to run to Target or Walmart and get to the mailbox, so get your names and wish lists in now. Alternate suggestion for those that are still keeping fairly distanced is to order goodies and then drop ship your gift to whomever is your recipient.
To participate in the gift exchange, I will need:
- your Mego Museum handle AND your name that the local postal authorities will deliver to.
- your postal address. (this will only go out to the person who draws your name for SS)
- a wish list; but remember - not everyone is loaded with extra Zorros and Secret Identity kits, and what you receive may be nowhere near what you put on your list. It is nice to dream, tho.
I will mix the names up and pull from a hat to draw for who gets who. I actually use a hat for this and my son, Cip, helps me out with the drawing. To be honest, he is deep in the throes of his teenage angst right now, and I will have to extract him from whatever digital device he is staring at, but he will come through and yank the names for me. I will email everyone back on Saturday the 3rd with their info for their SS recipient. I am getting older and a bit more forgetful and sometimes I fall asleep early, so it might be Sunday.
Wrap gifts as you see fit, and try to be polite about it; the person you are giving to may want to stick it under their tree where their kids or grandkids can see it.
According to the USPS website, gifts should hit the post office by the 15th of December so that they get there before the needles start falling off of the tree. (if you are a true procrastinator, priority says it will get there if posted by the 20th) I don't know how much I trust that info this year with the recent change in postal stuffs and all the cargo delays, but do what you can. If we have anyone in Europe who wants to play this year - well, sometimes this works out as a jolly new year instead.
Please let me know when you have POSTED or RECEIVED a present. It is also nice to post a pic or a thanks or something in this thread indicating your gift arrived and did indeed survive the postal crush.
I will send out a reminder as we get close to December 15th, but really - this is a fun thing and I am a volunteer coordinator, not a watch dog. So if you can't get to the post office with a gift in the next couple of weeks.....
Feel free to use this thread to post up pictures of your gifts and many back-slappings and guffaws can be had then.
Please use your best judgement on value. There is no limit if you are feeling generous, but please remember we do not all live in Wayne Manor. Considering all the hubbub about the new50th anniversary World's Greatest Super Heroes at WalMart this year, that is probably a good yardstick for a gift, not to mention the many awesome newMEGO sellers that have been helping everyone out over the past few years. There are several good names to chose from if you go the mail order route and they may just have the right thing from a recent or past wave of MEGOcorp releases.
If you can please post pictures of stuff you got.
and above all else
have a GOOD time
Happy Holidays to all!
-rche
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