13: The 10th annual Secret SANta Swap 2025

If you’ve been a regular reader for a while, you know that I have organized a little gift exchange every holiday season for the last few years.

Well, I am happy to announce that I’ll be hosting again this year.

I originally started this gift exchange as a “mug swap”, because I love mugs and you can never have enough cute mugs. But I have loosened up the rules in recent years, and it’s now a regular holiday gift exchange where you are asked to put together a little surprise package for your swap partner. The main objective is to put a smile on someone else’s face during the holiday season.

The swap is set up in ‘Secret Santa’-style, which means you won’t know upfront who the sender of your package will be. Of course, you can reveal yourself to your assigned partner, if you’d like, when you send out your package. In the sign-up form, I will ask you to give your Secret SANta some help by answering a few basic questions and sharing your blog/social media account so they can get to know you a little (in case they don’t already).

As in previous years, the swap will be open to people in the United States, Canada, and Germany. I need at least two sign-ups per country that I can match with each other. I briefly considered asking if people would be willing to ship internationally, but sadly, the situation with shipping internationally has gotten worse, not better, this year, so I apologize to any international readers who would like to participate.

How to participate

• Sign up to participate (see link below). Sign-up closes on November 20th.
• I’ll send out an email on November 21st to each participant. You’ll receive a name + address, plus some information about your swap partner.
• You have roughly two weeks to put together a little surprise package for your Secret SANta Swap partner. My suggestion is to spend around $10-15 (plus postage) or whatever you’re comfortable with. 
• Please send out your package by Saturday, December 7th (to allow plenty of time for delivery). Hopefully, that will give you enough time to shop and get the package on its way. I am hoping that everybody receives their package before Christmas.
• The swap is open to US residents and participants in Germany and Canada (if I can get at least two people per country to sign up).
• Last but not least, I’d love it if you shared your Secret Santa gift(s) with us on your blog or Instagram with the hashtag: #SecretSANtaSwap2025. As always, I am hoping to put together a swap recap post after everybody has received their gifts!

So, if you’re interested in participating this year, please sign up through this link:

SECRET Santa Swap 2025 SIGN-UP FORM

Please remember: if you sign up, you’re expected to purchase (a) gift(s) and send a package to your Secret Santa partner by December, 7th. If you can’t commit to this deadline, please be fair to the other participants and maybe consider signing up another time. 

I hope you join in a little bit of holiday fun!
And please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions!

I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2025
Happy writing!

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