Yea, I chose to completely ignore the limit. Who cares. It's just a guide. It is Christmas ya know.

I looked for some things within the suggested allotment too, I'm just not that creative though. So I went a bit over - so what? Hopefully my recipient is happy. Thats the whole the real point isn't it?

Shall we have a poll? How far over the "limit" did you go? :headshake

...I'm thinking it's only "in the spirit of the thing" if you don't make a song and dance about it. Think about the recipient just scraping by, who had to wait until their paycheck was cashed to buy and send their present. They receive an awesome gift! Wow! Their SS must be an awesome shopper! Then they learn that their SS thought they were a good charitable cause and deserved it, and spent three times as much as they did on the present. What if their recipient did the same and as a result thinks the gift they received is lame.....

No such thing as a lame gift! :)

I decided to open mine also. Here it is:

Not in the eyes of the receiver.....

I don't think anyone participating in this is expecting something that's going be 'the best gift ever'. That's not the point of the excercise from my perspective. To me it's just a fun way to do something which involves most of us who've posted here for a while and who have an understanding of each other.

If I were to stick to the limit, my giftee would be getting an empty box. I went at least twice over the limit, but I don't think my gift really suggests that. It's really quite simple, but i tried to be thoughtful and in doing so, I spent more than the allotted amount.

If anyone thinks the gift they recieve is 'lame', I don't think they're really entering into this thing with the spirit it's intended.

yeah, go on. make a pole of yourself. I treated the "limit" as a suggestion only too. All gifts are in the eye of the beholder. Lame gift? Lame eyes.

But, back to the thread topic.

I received this last week-ish. I'm storing it in the refrigerator.

THANK YOU SECRET SANTA!!!

I like the Big Clue on the package. NICE! :)

Got my SS gift, and it is REALLY cool. I don't need to guess who its from, because my SS is like me, probably the only active Cellar dweller in his location

The damn pic won't load. Going to work on it more later. It is an awesome little teapot, and a "12 teas of Christmas" set, and they will probably be gone by New Years. Thanks so much to my SS!

"partridge in a pear tree" flavored tea doesn't sound very appetizing to me. :greenface Nor any of the rest... but hey, whatever floats your boat.

I got my SS gift, and will be posting pics when I get the cam back from the Mad Photohog who is my lovely boyfriend. By the way, my SS, THANK YOU!! A perfectly appropriate gift, which has seen use already. I LOVE it muchly! Let me know somehow (through LabRat if you wish to remain anonymous) if you want pics of said present in use! ;) Again, a delighted THANK YOU!

The cookies were good. Just finished the last one with lunch today. Now If I can just figure out which dwellar lives in the Savannah, GA area.

Thanks Merc! :)