Secret Santa 2013

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It's almost Christmas! (Yes, for us small business owners, we can never plan far enough ahead!) This is a thread for this years' Secret Santa: Vicky & Sharon did a wonderful job last year, and I have taken the lead on this to hopefully get even more presents to piggies in rescues who will be spending their time there rather than in a forever home.
Please DO NOT PM just yet if you want to take part; the project is in its infancy and we are still gauging interest from the different rescues. I will post on here towards the end of October opening applications for Santas :)

Here is the advice that was given last year re: presents :)

Presents can be as small or as big as you like, and do not need to be expensive, I'm sure the piggies in rescue would be gratful of any presents they receive. Your secret santa could include:
Bin Bags
Water Bottle
Vouchers to DIY or Food Shops
Snugglesafe
Snuggle sacs/cups
GG Shampoos
Disinfect Tablets
Healthy Treats
Grooming Comb
Pro biotics
Cottonwool
Bottle Brush
Sticky Fly Papers
Hay
Herbs
Tubes/tunnels
And of course toys and treats!

You could also order online and have your order dispatched directly to a rescue, but please make sure you leave a message so they know who it is for and that it's from Secret Santa!

I will pair you all up from early November (perhaps with the help of some elves!), and that should give you all time to get shopping and time to send the parcel before Christmas.
Please note: secret santas are anonymous! So don't tell anyone!

Can I just add that when you PM me I will take it that you are definately sending a parcel. If for any reason you can't send it, it really doesn't matter and no-one will mind but can you please let me know. I try to work it so all rescues receive a similar number of parcels.

Some guineas may have special requirements (e.g. dietary requirements) - these will be communicated to you when you receive your piggies so you can cater for them and make sure that they can enjoy all their treats!

I will ask the rescues to communicate with me when their presents have been received, and I'll post in the 'Presents received' thread ONCE A DAY to show which presents have reached their destination. The recipients then do not feel quite as pressured to get the pictures up straight away, and you will know that your present has made it safely. Please have patience; rescues get increasingly busy around Christmas, and life does happen around this: they will have a lot of work to do to keep their rescues running.


So, who wants to help?
 
i will send a christmas pressie Do they have to be new as I have a cupple of snuggle sacks my girls won't use that i can include as well
 
madguinealady said:
i will send a christmas pressie Do they have to be new as I have a cupple of snuggle sacks my girls won't use that i can include as well
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I would make sure they are thoroughly washed and cleaned, but can't see any problem with this :-)
 
Big well done and massive thank you for taking the initiative on this and getting it up and going again for this year!
We made a pact to do this after seeing all the presents being unwrapped last year so count me in :)
 
It really is a wonderful experience. People are so generous to those guineas in rescue, and they do really deserve a good bit of spoiling. I think even the rescues are surprised at just how generous people are :-)
 
I loved buying secret santa presents for the piggys last year (more fun then buying for people lol), I will join in again. (:
 
Hopefully there will be lots of piggies out there receiving gifts this year. I found last year that a shoebox makes a perfect size present, you can squish lots of little things in a shoebox :))
 
Iceprincessx said:
I did it for the first time last year and it was great fun will definitely do it again!
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Last year was my first too, I had so much fun packing (though not gift wrapping a shoebox!) for my piggies. Will be putting my name to a piggie too :)
 
It's great news, I believe we're now up to either 9 or 10 on board. Still waiting on a lot of responses but I understand that everyone is very busy. That's why I started early! 2 of the rescues have already sent their piggie names over and there's some lovely pigs :-)
 
I am so grateful that you have taken on such a major commitment. I hope that there will be as many rescues and Secret Santas as in the previous years! I will be taking part as usual.
 
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