Step 3: Around Dec 21st you will receive a wootizen's name, wooter id, and street address. (more information pertaining to crap regulations will be given at a later date)
Step 4: Send your wootizen white elephant BOC to your wootizen.
Step 5: Wait patiently to receive your crap in the mail.
Step 6: Love the wootizen community!

Emails and woot "ask the community" questions will be utilized in order to maintain communications and provide information regarding the exchange.

IF you have any suggestions or ideas for the exchange, PLEASE provide them. Merry Crapmas.

Also I don't know if this was brought up at all last time, but STAFF is definitely allowed to join. Come one, come all.

Thanks for organizing such a fun event for the holidays!

@inkycatz: My pleasure. Are you or any other staff interested in joining up this time!? Because you totally should!

You said white elephant and I immediately thought of the common steal "someone else's or pick a new one" and wondered how that would work. I'm glad it is just a regular BOC exchange like before.
I'm moving so I have been through all my stuff recently and found plenty to put in for a some (un)lucky recipient. Count me in.

YES!! THANK YOU!! I've been building a BOC hoping for an exchange opportunity! GOOD TIMES!!

Count me in again...thanks for planning this!

I will play. Plenty of crap lying around to bestow. Email on its way.

@studerc: I'm not in, but we'll see what the others think! :)

sent over the email, but reiterating here. i'm in. I have so much random crap to give away it isn't funny :D. Can even send two well equipped boxes, if anyone drops out last minute.

Suggestion - might be too much to handle/organize, but can we take a basic list of likes/dislikes/family situation? For instance, if i knew the person i had for this, had children, i could totally pimp out that box with fun kid's stuff... vs if i knew my target recipient was a gamer, and so on and so forth. General guidelines, and completely optional type of thing.

@belyndag @goatcrapp

I dunno, I'm conflicted. Firstly, having this information would allow us to create personalized BOCs that would appeal to our wootizen.
But on the other hand, doesn't that take away from the BOC experience? Just getting a random box filled with stuff. We'll see what others think, perhaps if people WANT to give a paragraph they can, but if they opt to not provide anything, they will just have to be content with what they get??

The last one was great. Email sent. I'm in!

@purplefeather: Absolutely keep the crap moving...sooner or later someone might actually get something that they sent somewhere else. I guess "recrapping" would be the current version of "regifting".

I'm in! I missed the last one, too much going on but I already started my pile waiting for one to start, so I can't wait, seemed like it was fun! Thanks studerc for all the effort!!

Sounds like fun...

This cowboy wants in.

I missed it last time because i was busy with my move and felt bad. go ahead and count me in!

I'm in! I'll be sending my email tonight (when I have access to my home email account).

One thing I would suggest is to give a reasonably long window (a week plus the weekend) for sending the boxes. My thinking is that there are probably going to be people away from home for the holidays and possibly not able to send their boxes until the the first weekend in January. I know that I'm gone for over a week, won't be returning home until 31 Dec at the earliest. Then with the getting caught up from being gone and getting back to work and all of that it will probably be 4 January before I could send my box.

Email sent! It was fun last time. Thanks for setting this up!

@studerc: That's so cute that you think we all actually have friends!

I'm in!

@caffeine_dude: Truthfully, I believe that I (and the community) have enough pull to "heavily encourage" people to post their stuff, but by no means would it have to be mandatory, some people just forget and its not like we can penalize them or anything...

I actually like the idea of being able to send one or more packages and one or more people per household can participate. It may create a logistical nightmare for me when creating it, but I'll see what I can do. Perhaps it will be that if you want to send multiple packages you will have to receive multiple packages, and vice versa. That way everyone is accountable for sending one package to receive one package.

I think I'm going to make "personalization" optional. If people want to provide a paragraph to their sender about their interests, why not right? But it would in no way be a requirement for people to follow such guidelines.

I'm fiddling around with some other stuff, but more of that later :)

I've already got a box going. Glad we're waiting until after Christmas, Lord knows what my mother-in-law will give me this year. One of her gifts went in the box last round.

@studerc: I can totally share, I would rather it go smoothly for you, and share.