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• Secret Santa is a Christmas game often played in offices or big families. The participants draw names and then buy a gift for that person. Some games reveal Secret Santa identities at the end of the game, but others prefer to keep it a mystery. To find out more about Secret Santa, check out the links on this page. Christmas is right around the corner, and some of you will soon be called upon to head up or participate in Secret Santa.

  For groups of relatives, friends or coworkers who are separated by geography, this Secret Santa random name generator might be just the thing for drawingin names.

• Hosting a Secret Santa Party

  1. Gather everyone together and put names into a hat.
  2. Have everyone draw names.
  3. Set the price limit and the date for the party.
  4. Optionally have a sheet of paper where participants list their interests. This is especially helpful where participants may not know each other well.
  5. On the day of the party have everyone put their gifts on a table so identities can remain secret.
  6. Exchange gifts.Secret Santa.com: About Secret Santa

  
  

• Fast Facts

  1. Known as Kris Krindle or Kris Kringle in the British Commonwealth
  2. Also referred to as Pollyanna
  3. Many charities collect Secret Santa gifts from people and distribute them to impoverished families
  4. Online sites make it easier for long-distance relations to hold Secret Santa gift exchanges
  5. Game often puts a spending limit on the players so everyone's gift value is equal

• Larry Stewart

  For twenty-six years a Secret Santa walked the streets of Missouri handing out generous gifts of cash to the needy and homeless during the Christmas season. The identity of this man was a secret from the general public until 2004, when Larry Stewart died from cancer. Stewart allowed himself to be revealed to the public in hopes that his deeds would inspire others to carry on the tradition of giving.MSNBC: Illness unmasks generous "Secret Santa" (November 16, 2006)

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