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12-20-2013, 10:35 PM
Secret Santa: Expectation vs. Reality
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The idea of a secret santa holds so much promise.
SEE ALSO: 30 Days of Gifts (http://mashable.com/category/30-days-of-gifts/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
There's the mystery and suspense of who's buying your gift, the ability to channel all your Christmas-shopping energy into one person, and of course the weeks long guessing game to figure out who got who.
But in practice it can bring an ****** as much Christmas cheer as a stale fruitcake.
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The idea of a secret santa holds so much promise.
SEE ALSO: 30 Days of Gifts (http://mashable.com/category/30-days-of-gifts/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
There's the mystery and suspense of who's buying your gift, the ability to channel all your Christmas-shopping energy into one person, and of course the weeks long guessing game to figure out who got who.
But in practice it can bring an ****** as much Christmas cheer as a stale fruitcake.
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