Guides
Step-by-step help for running a gift exchange people actually enjoy: the rules, the draw, the gifts, and the group sizes where a hat full of paper slips stops working.
How to Draw Names for Secret Santa (Without the Usual Disasters)
The draw is the moment a Secret Santa exchange is made or quietly ruined. Done well, every person secretly gets exactly one name, the rules hold, and the…
How to Play Secret Santa: A Beginner's Guide to the Gift Exchange
Secret Santa is a gift exchange where every person in a group secretly buys a present for exactly one other person, drawn at random. Nobody knows who is…
How to Run a Secret Santa for Large Groups and Offices
A Secret Santa for twelve people runs itself. A Secret Santa for a hundred runs on logistics — and falls apart on exactly three things: collecting a clean…
Secret Santa Gift Ideas by Budget: $10, $20, $30 and $50
The draw is done, your private link told you a name, and now you are staring at the real problem of Secret Santa: what do you actually buy? This guide…
Secret Santa Rules: The Complete List (And the Ones Worth Breaking)
Every Secret Santa argument you have ever heard — "you can't buy for your own wife", "he spent double the budget", "she just re-gifted the candle from…