As I've mentioned previously, I am trying to organize a "Secret Imam" gift exchange for Eid insha Allah and want to get things going but need thoughts/comments/complaints and get an idea of how many people would like to participate in the gift exchange.
It's pretty simple, we're gonna use a website like Elfster.com which pretty much does all the work of sorting names and assigning people and keeps everyones identities secret. I'm gonna steal kitchen's idea and suggest that we do 2 separate exchanges, 1 for the brothers and 1 for the sisters. Since there are not many sisters on here, I'm hoping that at least 1 would like to participate with me and we can exchange gifts (that means no surprise :( but that's okay!)
Also we should be deciding on a spending limit (I was thinking 20$ ?). The users on here are pretty much scattered across the globe mashaAllah but that means that if you want to participate, you may have to be ready to pay some crazy shipping fees and I'm not quite sure how to fix that. If enough people are into it, we can separate it into different regions but it would just be a lot easier if we kept everyone together. You can check people's wish lists on steam or something else and gift them something online so update those wishlists!
So let me know your thoughts or suggestions please :) If it's successful we can do this for next Eid too insha Allah.
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UPDATE: Gift exchange commenced
Sign up deadline: July10th
Gift Exchange date: August 20th
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UPDATE: Names have been drawn!!!!!!
Things you should do now:
1.Go to the gift exchange website and see who you got! Please check again, because I had to redraw the names, so you might have someone different than you thought you had.
2.Update your wishlist ASAP! If you don't have something specific in mind, write that but it would fun to give your buddy some kind of idea on what to get.
3. There's a cool function on the site called "Secret Q&A", so if you want to ask your buddy questions on what to gift, use that. Alternatively, I can act as a spy and message the person through here for you.
4. We are pretty far away from Eid, but I wanted to start the exchange before in case some people weren't going to be around during Ramadan. I will come back and post a reminder a week before Eid, but try and have your gift sent out to be received a bit before or on Eid so that everyone can post their gifts :)
I think that's it, so have fun!
