A little happiness for the holidays.

Hey! You there!

Welcome to the first annual tumblr Holiday White Elephant event!

This whole production is brought to you by PositiveConnotation (me!) and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, and we’re both pretty awesome tumblr-ers, so you ought to check us out.

First things first: A traditional White Elephant Gift Exchange includes stealing other peoples’ gifts. This is more like a “Secret Santa” gift exchange, but Santa is not as cool (or as holiday-neutral) as elephants, so we’re going with this.

For this event, we’re going to match up tumblr users anonymously, so they can send holiday gifts to each other.

In order to sign up to send and receive a gift, we will need the following information sent to us as an ask or in an email to tumblrwhiteelephant@gmail.com:

*Your name
*The winter holiday you celebrate
*A list of things you like
*Your price bracket
*Your address

The price brackets will be as follows:
- Email/letter gift
- Homemade-$10 gift
- $10 - $25 gift
- $25 - $50 gift

Hopefully, as we get going, we’ll set up a paypal to accept donations to help with shipping costs for people who wish to participate, but for now, when you are matched with your Elephant, you will be told what state/country they live in, and we will try to keep you close to your buddy so you don’t wind up spending $20 on shipping.

Please note that you will be randomly assigned a partner and we will not accept requests as to who you want to sponsor as an Elephant. However, we completely respect financial burdens, and will keep people within similar price brackets (for example, someone who wants to email as their gift, will receive an email as their gift. Likewise, someone who wants to spend more than $25 will get a gift worth more than $25)

Your Elephant will not know who you are - only the list of things you like, your price bracket, and your address - until after the holidays. After the New Year, we will post who was matched with who, and you two can choose whether or not to connect over tumblr. If you’re uncomfortable giving out your address, choose an email gift! We want to be as inclusive as possible.

Please let me (PC) or Matt (TWUBC) know if you have any additional questions. Until then, signal boost this post, and sign up to send and receive a gift from a tumblr-er for the holidays. :)