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Have you heard of Elfster? It’s an easy to use website and app specifically designed for gift exchanges.
Have you ever participated in a long-distance gift exchange? This year especially, since the pandemic, this is the perfect site to use. Even though the name suggests a Christmas time exchange gifts can be swapped year-round.
To start an exchange you need an organizer and a willing group of participants. The organizer sends out email invitations to participants, once everyone has accepted or the deadline for accepting is reached the organizer matches participants (this is done automatically). Each participant can upload items to a wish list and ask and answer questions secretly. From there, you buy a gift and send it out. In some exchanges, you reveal yourself with your gift but others prefer to keep it mysterious.
With the wish lists, I prefer to keep it vague. My thought on wish lists is if you want an exact item just go buy it, it’s not really fun for your gifter to just buy your preselected gift and it is much more fun to be surprised by the gift you receive as well. So, take the opportunity to mix it up a little. It is a good starting point, but you also give the buyer the opportunity to surprise you.
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What could be easier?
Have you used Elfster before? What did you think?
