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As many others have said, I love the Secret Santa set up and thank you Vroomed for the work you put into it. 
 

extra thanks to my secret Santa, Flyingdutchmen for the package I got today, (great communication by him about the timing of the package too!) a couple of great PC Cards and an awesome joke no wax 2024 calendar! Much appreciated!

Thanks to timriess for the great Smoltzys! Merry Christmas all!

I knew this was going to happen - I forgot in my initial post to give a couple stats about our 149 participants this year (stats which I did not track in previous years).

149 Participants
5 different countries
37 of 50 US states
And suprisingly, only 2 of the Canadian provinces

Also of note, I did the random drawings limiting the members in "regions": USA, Canada, & Europe. Next year (and subsequent years), I may change things up a little when it comes to that.

Also something different I am doing this year is I am tracking the responses given here to save on the emails I send out in a couple weeks verifying receipt of a Secret Santa package. I have had 1 member send me a private message regarding their receipt status (it was a late arriving one, but thankfully, it arrived yesterday). If you don't want to publicly thank your SS sender, that's cool too (no one is forced to do anything in this annual event, heck, I don't even ask anyone specifically to join), I will ask that you send me a PM stating that you received somwething from your Secret Santa (please only do this if you didn't post here). Again, the more members who do this will save time later on.

Thanks again for a 4th successful year of the TCDB Secret Santa. I have read all the posts in this thread (and will obviosly continue to do so) and I appreciate the kind words about the event and the effort it takes to organize it. It's so worth it to see the posts saying how thoughtful the senders were and how cool it was to get something, etc.

One last round of stats.

Participation by year:
2023 - 149 people
2022 - 149 people
2021 - 117 people
2020 - 53 people
2019 (when it was run on the blogs) - 32 people

Thanks again to all who participated. This doesn't happen or work without you.

Thank you so much to member noahledbetter2000 who not only sent some fantastic cards from my want list but also included a TTM auto of one of my favorite pitchers from childhood, Luis Tiant.

Thank you so much my friend! 

Thanks to buck1buck's for the Topps 5-card foil packs. It was fun ripping open new packs of cards and hoping to pull out something good. I did get an 2023 Ohtani base card.

UPDATE....I opened the 4 packs of 1988 Topps tonight.  Turns out they were all resealed.  What an awesome surprise...BIG THANK YOU for putting in extra effort and knocking this out of the park.  People like this are why I still love this hobby!

Big shout out and thanks to Stan Waite on the auto cards he sent me. Stan they will be added to the auto shelf!

Big thanks to Vroom running the show for all of us.

Happy Holidays to everyone, and be safe this NY weekend!

Thanks ToppsrBest for an awesome package filled with Tony Gwynn SN'd cards!

Big thanks to AAARRT for the Ozzie Smith, definitely put a smile on my face!  Merry Christmas!

I want to thank Vroomed for putting this together once again. I had participated in previous years, but just was not able to do so this time around due to a lot going on from late November up until just recently, but always fun to see everyone's excitement with what they received. Hopefully, next year things will be better and I can jump back in again.