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    Okay i am stuck at work today can you tell lol. Its only me and the receptionist and she is all the way at the front of the office lol.

    I have this idea, and i wouldn't mind trying to coordinate if people would like to do it. But i was wondering if people may want to do a Christmas buddy exchange. For example we can set a minimum amount and link up people by getting all the names and then drawing from a hat and we snail mail a christmas low carb thing to them for Christmas. I would say to do this we would need a minimum of 10 people and everything needs to be sent in the mail by the 20th of December. Addresses would be exchanged in PM between the to people, and you can send them email cards, words of motivation etc. Sorta a buddy hook up from Dec 1 - January 1 as extra help to get us through the next couple weeks.

    Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, yay or nays? Its just a though. I know people are swamped with family and getting ready and such, i thought perhaps this may be a neat thing to do.

    If we decide to do this, the only thing i as is that if you sign up you follow it through, you support your buddy, you send your gift, you send your motivation and support. I ask that you would make a committment and keep it.

    It may be difficult with so many countriies, but perhaps we could have one person for each country helping to coordinate the buddyy lists and such.

    Thoughts?
    May you all be losers, Sher

    I am female, hear me roar!!!


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    Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

    great idea the CC forum does an annual Christmas card exchange and there is discussion in the volunteer board about doing an ADBB wide exchange.
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    • #3
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      Cool, i love doing stuff like this, it gets my creative juices flowing, it helps keep me motivated by doing stuff for others and helping keep them on track, and well ****, i don't get to do Christmas so selfishly i feel like i am celebrating with everyone then. grins, i feel like i have a purpose other than elbowing my way through hordes of people in the shopping malls.
      May you all be losers, Sher

      I am female, hear me roar!!!

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      • #4
        Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

        ARE YOU VOLUNTEERING TO HELP CORODINATE THIS? IF SO i WILL LINK IT TO THE VOL BOARD TOPIC BUT i GOT TO TELL YOU THERE WERE VERY FEW REPLIES AND i CAN SEE WHT AS PRIVACY AND ONLINE PREDATORS CAN BE AN ISSUE
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        • #5
          Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

          I have never actually coordinated something like this ssimply participated and helped a little but to me i would see the coordination being getting the names, pulling names from a hat as to who the buddies are, and telling people who your buddy is, doing an overall poll to set an overall minimum amount for the gift and from there, i believe the two buddies do the rest as to exchanging privately the addresses and such.

          Am i right or am i missing something. As i said with all the different countries, i would believe depending how many people we have from each, it would be matching up people in each country. As i said i believe we would need a minimum of 10 people to make this fun, but if other countries have at least two, in the end that is all you need for a buddy system. I am not sure if having people from two different countries as buddies as snail mail may be just that snail.

          i agree people may be leary sending out their addresses, which is why i put this out there as a suggestion to see what interest it would be.
          May you all be losers, Sher

          I am female, hear me roar!!!

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          • #6
            Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

            let me see if I can find the Card topic from the CC you should have read the joy everybody over seas and at home had getting and sending cards. Kent coordinasted the last one.
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            • #7
              Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

              Cool thanks.
              May you all be losers, Sher

              I am female, hear me roar!!!

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              • #8
                Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

                http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ight=Christmas

                http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ight=Christmas
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                • #9
                  Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

                  Wow do they have one for this year? Runs over to the Century club forum lol.
                  May you all be losers, Sher

                  I am female, hear me roar!!!

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                  • #10
                    Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

                    I haven't seen it the one from 2004 didn't show up in the search either soory

                    I sent Kent a PM about the discussion to see if he would share what he learned last yr about making a list.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

                      Okay thanks 2big, your help is appreciated. I do like the idea of christmas cards also and it may be easier for people too.
                      May you all be losers, Sher

                      I am female, hear me roar!!!

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                      • #12
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                        I want to be in on this. Great idea!!!

                        I just read Kents post on this and it was suggested to put a low carb recipe in with the card.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

                          her is what Kent said in the vol board today about it

                          Originally posted by kent
                          We had a number of concerns when we did it in the past, and basically limited to only known CC members, i.e. you couldn't pop in out of the blue and request to be on the list. *stalker alert* It was a significantly smaller subset of the board being just CC, but a reasonable cut off limit might 50 some posts limit or something similar. Others were mod only requests or specifically asked only to have their address shared with a small subset. Otherwise, we sent the whole list to everyone. My main concern would be someone new and potential trouble starting from it -- no real way beyond it and I guess you can always rent a PO Box if you are paranoid.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

                            I think the Christmas Card idea would be cool, even with a recipe within, the only thing i think may cause a hindering aspect is sending something overseas as They may not receive anything until after Christmas.

                            I know i said i would help coordinate the buddies thing, but i am not sure i would be comfortable handling and sending out different addresses of many different people. i wouldn't mind gathering the information but i would rather a mod decide who to send the list out too. i have word and excel to create the list. We would also have to get this started pretty quickly Christmas is exactly one month from today :yikes
                            May you all be losers, Sher

                            I am female, hear me roar!!!

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                            • #15
                              Re: Christmas buddies exchange?

                              if yu issue the challenge you set the rules so you can say if you don't want ecerybody who signs up with X number of posts to have your address then please to PM me with your address. P;ease note we will not selctivly distribute the lists all sogned up get all addresses..

                              see that was easy

                              oh and the poster after you in the CC forun lives in Norway so yep overseas folk loved iot too and it didn't matter if they got there late the first yr folk got ther cards in Feb and said it was like Christmas allover again in the forum/ but you decide what you are willing to do then if you want to call it ADBB card exchange shoot a PM to the admins all 4 of them at the same time will do and wait for them to say sure casue the board is copyrighted so use of the name needs appproval but they should give it too you.

                              have fun with it. just be carefull cause you PM box will fill up fast with replies and
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