Anyway, it's heading North. Hahaha! Everyone is north of me huh?

I have one more item I am planning on getting tomorrow if we don't get snowed in. I have tix to see the band INXS in the city and reservations (you need to book months in advance) at a famous (not fancy) nyc place that sells a special item that I want so badly to send my partner!!!

I'm clinking !!! Anyone else?

AND I have no problem with diaper boxes! Send it on.

Shaun, when will your package arrive? I want to be sure I'm home. :)

My package was mailed on Thursday...from Indiana, so I won't say which direction it was headed, but it's north of me here in SW FL!

Maggie...don't worry about the box. Sturdy is more important. I am worrying myself sick that I didn't pack mine well enough and it will be a mess. Can't wait to hear that it arrived ok with nothing broken. I used a large Priority box from the Post Office. Oh, yeah, I do happen to be clinking right now!

I think we're all a little nervous. I'm like that when I give someone I know a gift. When we give to someone we don't know it's magnified.

I really have never received a swap package I didn't like.

RELAX

Tracey

Swaps should be fun..I would worry too:)

You all have made me feel better, just knowing I'm not alone in my feelings.

Jayne, yea you're right. It IS fun too. A lot of fun actually.

Thanks.

My vintage ebay item arrived today. I may get another one for myself in blue! I have one more thing to buy and that box is outta here on Monday. Going East. Everything is East of me.

Clinking back to everyone.

I don't know if this is the appropriate place but I just have to share this story. This morning the doorbell rang at 8:30 am.... wouldn't be that unusual for a weekday but it is Saturday. I am upstairs and DH and DS are downstairs. I come flying down the stairs - DH is like - "who the heck can that be?" - and I am like "my swap box my swap box". So without even thinking (I am in pj's - well pj bottoms and a tank) I swing open the door. Well, it is not the UPS guy or Sean the mailman. It is two very well dressed young men. I step back a bit and they say "Good Morning - Is there anything Jesus can do for you today?". I am like - no thank you bye and shut the door in like 2 seconds flat! So - it shows how excited I am about this swap thing - both giving and receiving! But here is the really funny thing (to us anyway)...DH says - "what did they say?" - so I tell him and he says "well, jesus was a carpenter you could have told them about the unfinished trim work in the kitchen". haaaaa

Hope this isn't offensive to anyway - in no way am I putting down religion, it was just one of those moments. We are still having a good laugh - mostly at my expense!

I will also add though - my DH does not GET the whole swap thing - he thinks I am nuts to do this. Anyone else's significant other think that too?

Monique - I will let you know how JD is. It is a rare night out and I am really looking forward to it!

I think the excitement is starting to build...lots of packages should start arriving next week!

By the way, I don't like mini-swaps, but I doubt that I could afford the postage on a full-blown swap. When I find something I like, I just say to myself, "How heavy is this thing? I think I'll get my partner marshmallows and meringues."

Annie

Don't worry your DH will get into the spirit. My DH was the same way. The first couple of swaps his attitude was "Why?".

Even though I now have a plan - took a while - but it finally came to me - last night he was offering up all kinds of suggestions for good swap items.

Mine will go out Monday too...It's heading South and/or East....LOL..every one is South or East but maybe Ann, she's north of me a touch.

I sent mine out Friday! I'm going to the USPS website to check on delivery confirmation next. Yahoo!

Ruddmd - glad to hear the dh is in to it!!!!

How do you pack fragile items??? Thinking maybe I should get some bubble wrap....

As for diaper boxes, bring them on. But at least the Huggies ones have an opening in the bottom. Last swap my DH forbid me to use the box my replacement Le Creuset dutch oven came in. He said that was cruel and promptly recycled it. However at his companies holiday party last year I individually wrapped each jam in our gift for the gift exchange in a CLEAN diaper Julian had grown out of. For swaps I generally wrap fragile items in a ziploc baggie if they might spill and then in bubble wrap.

-Robin

Sigh . . . Mine isn't going out until the end of the week.

This is exciting! Who will be next?

LOL at that story Maggie.

I wrap glass with liquids in with bubblewrap and then put in ziploc bags. Sometimes I put air in the bags also then seal. It depends on how fragile and how far it's going.

Mine will go out when the last item gets here.

Tracey

Tracey

I guess I'm not the only one that checks delivery status 50 times a day once I send a package out?

Linda

Jayne

You did say this was heading EAST from Indiana?

Don't want to say anything now that will give my partners name away but I have a story to tell when my parcel arrives in ........!

Tracey

North, South, East or West??