Call it boring, ungenerous, and a killer of the magic, but a number of years ago, my siblings and I decided that rather than buying gifts for everyone, we would instead do a Secret Santa gift exchange. It wasn’t because we didn’t love each other or want to be generous with one another, but in reality, there were now so many nieces and nephews on the scene that gift-giving in our family was starting to get out of hand!
Having made the decision, it now required administration. We needed a way to randomly assign names to each other without anyone finding out. This was infinitely more challenging given that we all live in different places and couldn’t do a rudimentary “pull the names out of a hat” system. We needed help.
