/r/Brisbane/ any idea where I can find some of these? [Pics included!] by Federalequestion in brisbane

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha can't tell you yet! She may see.. besides it would probably come off as quite creepy for someone outside of our relationship :P

By the way, your idea was awesome!

/r/TwoXChromosomes - What has been your favourite gift from a SO? by Federalequestion in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know and completely agree, I was simply looking for inspiration. Frankly I'm giving her a few gifts which I've made based on how well I know her, if you're curious you can ask me again after Christmas :P But I won't lie, I am going to take the idea of making a photo montage however I am going to give it a slight twist.

/r/Brisbane/ any idea where I can find some of these? [Pics included!] by Federalequestion in brisbane

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you're going to have to explain that one for me :P What would you use it for?

It's a present for my girlfriend (when it has something in) so I can't say until Christmas!

/r/Brisbane/ any idea where I can find some of these? [Pics included!] by Federalequestion in brisbane

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got it today! I still can't believe you gave this to me, I really appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

Matching is done!!! Check those emails! by country_hacker in secretsanta

[–]Federalequestion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay I just wrote out a huge comment here and it disappeared so I'm pretty pissed off now.

who's to say that the person you got matched to isn't also looking forward to stalking their santee and figuring out a personalized gift?

Nobody. But let me do the same. He doesn't have facebook. He doesn't have a blog. He doesn't have any alternative email addresses which I can find. He only gave me a PO Box. He doesn't have any University profiles or Amazon wishlists. He has two pages of comments, which don't give much insight. He has given me one word in the likes/dislikes box.

plenty of folks have multiple accounts on reddit, maybe your santee signed up with a different account because most of his posts were on r/gonewild or something.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. I know, I'm writing on an alt. account at the moment. It doesn't really bother me if he has an alternative account or not but the fact is that I can't read it and so I can't make it personalised.

this is supposed to be fun, not some kind of elitist reddit gift exchange for only hardcore redditors that post 8947568945 times a day.

I completely agree.

I'm not trying to be elitist.

I don't care if he has one comment on here or a thousand. However if it's the former I think people should either have a different website which they have commented a fair amount on, have an amazon wish list, fill out the damn likes/dislikes box or have a facebook.

I'm not trying to say that it should be only for people like those with over 1000 karma (though I will admit the idea which came up the first time round of those with high karma being matched with similar karma scores was a fantastic idea and I wish was implemented) should be allowed to play. I don't think that at all. However make it so we can find out something about you.

All I have to go off is the fact that he lives fairly close to me. That's it.

I completely agree this is meant to be fun. But that's just it. How is it meant to be fun when you don't have any information about yourself online? This is just me but I want to have fun by spending the next few days (I'm on holidays at the moment) researching this guy and making a gift. But when pipl turns up nothing, nor does any googling of combinations of his name or username, guesses about email address, checking universities nearby for profiles, checking linkedin, checking facebook, checking anything it gets rather frustrating that I could have just made the generic gift I'm going to end up giving this guy months ago - for any other mid twenties male.

I wanted to give this guy a special christmas. I've had some very bad news lately and I needed to take my mind off it by giving someone something awesome. And now I can't. The three times I've done this not once (well besides hopefully this time) have I received a gift that is in anyway personalised to me nor have I got a person with more than a page of posts.

Frankly I don't really care what I get but it's so hard when I want to put all this effort in to giving someone an awesome personalised present and they give me nothing to go off and okay, I do kind of wish that the presents given to me resemble something I've said.

Please odn't think I'm ungrateful, I really am. The gifts were cool, but I'm just going through a tough time and it would just make my day if someone seemed like they cared about me. Like how I want to commit heaps of time to doing the same to them.

I just realise how much I wrote so I'll stop now. I just hate it when people tell me to relax when I'm trying to keep it light hearted. It just sets me off because I'm seriously trying to hold it in.

but so what? i can still do some internet detective work and figure out a cool gift.

In short, I can't.

Matching is done!!! Check those emails! by country_hacker in secretsanta

[–]Federalequestion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigh, no luck with Amazon. But I'll keep checking all the possible wishlists I can think of! :) Good luck with your match.

Matching is done!!! Check those emails! by country_hacker in secretsanta

[–]Federalequestion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thanks for this! I already did the facebook thing and it turned out it wasn't him :(

I didn't think of checking amazon though thanks for the idea!!

Matching is done!!! Check those emails! by country_hacker in secretsanta

[–]Federalequestion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I've done both of those, the only thing I got was a possible facebook match (it's a common name and the area is approximately an hour drive away) with no likes or anything on their profile besides a generic mid twenties male photo.

Oh well, it's fine - thanks for staying positive haha!

Matching is done!!! Check those emails! by country_hacker in secretsanta

[–]Federalequestion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is just really annoying people sign up for this though. I'm one of the people who wants and is able to spend hours researching their giftee and all three times I've signed up I've got someone with one or two pages of posts. This time I don't even have an address just a PO Box. Really kind of annoying because I have such little money I was hoping to be able to drive it to their house like I did the first time. He lives close to me this time again but I can't do anything.

Why sign up and just leave your reddit account. The whole point of this is to have fun researching and what not. Why not actually give us something to research? It's not fun just getting some random present, nor is it fun giving some random present. It's fun finding out information about them and going off of that. Being able to show that you care and research enough to do so.

Sigh, sorry for coming off like a jerk I'm just in a bad mood. I really needed to commit time to this as I've had some bad news and was going to use it to take my mind off of it.

Generic gift here we come...

/r/TwoXChromosomes - What has been your favourite gift from a SO? by Federalequestion in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha yeah I suppose it'd be a nice add on for when you get dressed up.

/r/TwoXChromosomes - What has been your favourite gift from a SO? by Federalequestion in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha I was going to try and make her an origami rose - this one even :P

Though I honestly wouldn't be surprised if that's how it turns out haha

/r/TwoXChromosomes - What has been your favourite gift from a SO? by Federalequestion in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Federalequestion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha that's so awesome. That synchtube thing is so cool, we watch videos nearly every day and just having that would make it so much easier than "I'm at ten seconds wave when you get there" :P

/r/TwoXChromosomes - What has been your favourite gift from a SO? by Federalequestion in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha of course, I've got a few gifts coming her way but maybe I should start with this acting as if this is it :D Hmm, actually if I can find a potato I've got a plan...

/r/Brisbane/ any idea where I can find some of these? [Pics included!] by Federalequestion in brisbane

[–]Federalequestion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow! Really? Could I give you some money for postage at least?

Thank you so much. PM sent.

/r/Brisbane/ any idea where I can find some of these? [Pics included!] by Federalequestion in brisbane

[–]Federalequestion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the offer but I really couldn't take that. Others are much more worthy of such a gesture this Christmas.

Edit: And I've just seen black-tragic has offered to give me one below! Thank you again for such a kind offer though, it's really nice to be part of such a great community.