{Unofficial} Mehrican Exchange Ver. 6.0

Oh cool someone sent it to the first page already! Thanks to whomever did that!!

@medz
/giphy YOU’RE UNOFFICIAL

huh… this is awkward, and I’m going to leave it.

@medz Oh shit I forgot that. @Thumperchick could you please add the word Unofficial in the title for me if that is needed there? I forgot all about that. I just copied what had been done in all the ones in the past and completely forgot that discussion many moons ago about labeling something unofficial when not sponsored by meh. Oops. Sorry about that.

@DaveInSoCal Hey - need your name for the exchange unless the postman will deliver with only your user name. Let me know. You can email me it at MehricanExchange6@yahoo.com

@Kidsandliz shouldn’t be a problem.

@DaveInSoCal ok - good thing you are active on this form so that people can find out things about you here then (it was linkedin and the groups you belonged to there that clued me in about the sports team thus the ornament)

@Kidsandliz He’s busy until tomorrow night.

@studerc Thank you for your blessing. I blatantly plagiarized you so it should be right (although it would be too late now anyway - the edit time has passed LOL)…

PS you are welcome to take over if you want… just sayin’

@studerc PS you need to email me the people who were deadbeats or you had other problems with either at MehricanExchange6@yahoo.com or my user name at the same @. Thanks.

@studerc How’s your kid doing these days?

@dashcloud Doing real well. Just past two years about a month ago. She’s a walking talking tornado of a child. We just bought her a potty so we are gonna see how that goes…fingers crossed and bleach at the ready.

@sarahsandroid You are welcome to use a flat rate box. Some people do.

@sarahsandroid Flat rate box filled to the brim with random is the best .

@CaptAmehrican that’s what I am thinking.

@sarahsandroid I still practice Wicca and occasionally Necromancy. Wish you wouldn’t have stopped. I’m a solo practitioner, I don’t do the group thing- tried it once and found to many “fakes”. Plus, my household and SO’s extended family are Catholics so I do it on the down low (that was the agreement I had to make with my SO) although my oldest son got into it. He found my books and items. A lot of people frown upon it but I find it close/tied to how people meditate to relax.

@Kidsandliz Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the least.

@DaveInSoCal Well then you’re in luck aren’t you LOL

@RiotDemon I’ll ask the people who are doing send only and not receive and if any are OK with that since it would be their boxes. We can have people post here if they are interested and I can do a drawing for however many are interested for however many boxes we have that the owners of the boxes agree. Because I can’t (at least I don’t think I can anyway) change the form now that it is in use, use the MehricanExchange6@yahoo.com to send an email with that in the subject line and your information in the body of it. That goes for anyone else. I will then, when the signup is over ask the folks who are send only what they think, and if there are any ‘yes’ responses, wait until after we see if anyone gets stiffed or not and if there are still any left then do the drawing.

@Kidsandliz from the interwebz:
Normally, everyone can fill out a Google form; they do not need an account. However, if you selected the option “Can submit only 1 response” in your Google form, that will require the users to login. So, if it’s necessary to allow anonymous users, you should uncheck that option.

@Yoda_Daenerys Ahhh OK I will fix that and then post when I did.

@Kidsandliz The form link immediately above is not working for me. The one way up at the top is.

I didn’t bother to try to figure out why.

@baqui63 odd because all I did was copy/paste it from the one at the top but I see what you mean. I just tried the one immediately above too. Wish I could go back in and edit. @thumperchck could you please replace the portion of the message immediate above where it says “form is here” and the url with “Go to the original message for the link to the form” Please?

@medz

/image etch a sketch

@mossygreen When you’re putting them together you’ll wish you only did one. When they’re coming in the mail you’ll regret not doing two.

@DaveInSoCal @mossygreen And when they come if you regret having done 2 then you will have stuff to send out next exchange (presuming not trash) - just sayin’

@DaveInSoCal I know!

@Kidsandliz I know that too!

@DaveInSoCal Every dang time! I always do one , always end up wishing I did two…next time I’m doing two.

@mehbee I’ve got to say, when I’ve done two, I’ve found myself worrying that they’re not equally good (well, “good”). So this time I only did one, and it was less stressful.

@mossygreen That’s been my main reason for only doing one, I stress enough over the one.

@Kidsandliz you need to make to google form more confusing to attract attention and consternation and bickering and fighting and backstabbing and complaining and sticking up for the dope

that’s the only way to keep it on the top page (which i think you made up)

btw, i’m just giving you the raspberries in return, no real beef of course

/youtube where’s the beef

fwiw, i did not sign up for my own exchange, so please take no offense that i don’t sign up for this round of high shipping charges for low value items

let me know if i can help, or if someone gets stiffed and i can send a care package for the unlucky

/giphy unlucky in love

@Yoda_Daenerys Thanks for your offer. And here I thought organization would be a benefit LOL.

PS so you can help me out by recruiting people to bicker, post irrelevant stuff… That won’t cost you shipping : )

@Kidsandliz

WORDS!!!

Sorry, busy week.

You’re welcome.

PS don’t let these words stay out late without supervision. They won’t behave themselves if you aren’t watching.

@Yoda_Daenerys Thank you!!

@Yoda_Daenerys what? What? WHAT?

@Yoda_Daenerys Huh? But I already signed up… for two even… Am I missing something?

@baqui63 @jbartus nope, i was just tagging folks i know had been interested before, or meh names i could think of without much effort.

@Yoda_Daenerys Thanks too as that kicked this back to the front page since it has dropped to the bottom - although this about ready to be kicked off again if we don’t get more activity on this thread.

@Thumperchick Thanks for that bump! I appreciate it. I need to remember to bump it about an hour before tomorrow’s product is up.

@CaptAmehrican Hope what ever it is you get from whomever you get it from floats your boat (hehehe)

@Kidsandliz actually since the last time i played in the meh exchange i have gotten to know a bunch of you crazy kids better. I am looking forward to hopefully personalize the box a bit.

@CaptAmehrican Yes that is fun. Cyber stalking someone I found out their favorite sports team and bought them an ornament with that, another person (or maybe same person - I no longer remember) had said on meh they wanted meh to sell meh ping pong balls so I bought some and with the usual meh sharpie modifications made him some copying meh’s script onto the balls. Took me an entire evening to make 6 of them…

@Kidsandliz THAT WAS ME! I love the BoSox ornament and my ping pong balls. I’ve actually decided to share the love, and am going to place one meh ball in each of the two boxes I’ll be sending.

You also sent me a spare pair of mediocre socks, which was also appreciated and used all the time! Thanks!

@DaveInSoCal I guess that box would be have been considered one of the “good” ones then in that exchange LOL. I can’t even remember what I have sent people since I have participated in more than one of these exchanges (or for that matter who I even had - the first person in the first exchange never even acknowledged my box to her arrived so I can’t even search old threads to find out again).

But now no one can cyber stalk you very well outside of meh as you didn’t put your real name in the sign up. If you want it there just email it to me using the email in the first message in the thread and I can add it into the spreadsheet. If not I hope your mail delivery will still deliver it with your meh name instead of your real name.

@DaveInSoCal PS you are welcome.

@smigit2002 Cool - now recruit about 100 of your best friends. (grin)

@mick Glad you saw this. It has been up a week. We haven’t had enough chatter on this thread to keep it on the main page so it is easier to miss.

And one more. Go team mehrican!

@Kidsandliz

I will then check that you aren’t sending to yourself

Dang it. I was gonna save a bundle on shipping costs sending to myself.

@ruouttaurmind well this could be arranged… just saying. You could be in your own private random number generator column…all by yourself…

@moonhat If you want ideas search on the mehrican exchange reveal threads. Some people go over the top and that is not expected. People have a range of financial means on this list and some don’t have the means to pay the postage on bigger boxes. Plenty of people limit what they send to what can fit inside one of the bigger priority mail boxes. Stuff can be funny, silly, a “joke”… by cyber “stalking” on the meh exchange or otherwise you might find out some of the interests of people - but you are NOT expected to spend a lot of money on this. Plenty of stuff is odds and ends of things you’d otherwise put in a garage sale because it is too good to throw out but you don’t use it anymore. Try to have at least one thoughtful thing in there you think the person you have been assigned might like.

@huja Sorry you will miss it…
And you do realize now with search engines to aid us in having long memories we will keep you to that promise!!

@Kidsandliz That would be @dave and @thumperchick

@Kidsandliz
/giphy you’re welcome

@woodhouse thanks for the info

@thumperchick @dave Since signup for the exchange is more or less over it is OK to take down the broadcast. Having that up for 36 or so hours prior to the deadline got us around 1/3 of our signups which was great. We are up to 45 people at this point unless anyone else signs up before I get the assignments done - which will likely happen very very late Sunday - so if you decide to leave it up could you modify the main message to put this as the first sentence: “late signups will be accepted late through 3pm central time Sunday, June 18th”.

My preference would be to leave it up with that modification (later in the main message it gives a deadline of yesterday and people may not read further in the forums to see my procrastinator post) if possible as likely we’d get more people.

Thanks for all the help!!

@ruouttaurmind well I didn’t design that form, I just stole it from the past… (gri) I agree though. I need to change slightly how it is. I realized after the fact based on how people did it there were “issues”.

@Kidsandliz No worries! It’s functional, it just isn’t possible to verify I’ve entered my address accurately (can’t view the entire data field).

/giphy it’s all good

@candiedisilvio1 posted elsewhere:
If you want ideas search on the mehrican exchange reveal threads. Some people go over the top and that is not expected. People have a range of financial means on this list and some don’t have the means to pay the postage on bigger boxes. Plenty of people limit what they send to what can fit inside one of the bigger priority mail boxes. Stuff can be funny, silly, a “joke”, a white elephant, whatever… and by cyber “stalking” on the meh exchange or otherwise you might find out some of the interests of people and can figure out something to put in - but you are NOT expected to spend a lot of money on this. Plenty of stuff is odds and ends of things you’d otherwise put in a garage sale because it is too good to throw out but you don’t use it anymore (or never used it to begin with). Try to have at least one thoughtful thing in there you think the person you have been assigned might like.

Personally my box (and I know this is true for some other people as well) is mostly already packed prior to even knowing who I will end up with. I will add one or two personal things presuming I can find anything out about whomever I end up with.

@candiedisilvio1 If it’s stuff that makes you happy it would probably make the recipient happy. Probably.

@candiedisilvio1 They did not go out and buy all that junk for the exchange - instead they went through closets, drawers, garages, car trunks, attics and basements and found things that they no longer wanted/never used to begin with…you know - stuff that you’d stick in a garage sale rather than the trash can. Some people on this list seem to have a shopping addiction and have way more excess stuff than others. Some people on this list are broke and have already sold most of their garage sale items and so are more limited in what they have to send. Some can afford to send big boxes and some of us pick small items that will fit in a priority mail box because any more postage than that would kill the budget for a month. The fun is in the surprise and how cool it is to be getting something in the mail.

@WTFsunshine No one has yet to reveal anyone’s real name.When people post the photos they post it tagging people’s meh name.

@Kidsandliz also as the person you send and receive from are different you might not know their real name .

@CaptAmehrican Only 2 people have not given their full name - you may not know the real name of who you receive from - often all you know is their forum name as that is often all that the sender puts in the box (although usually there is a return address with at least the street address). However you usually know the real name of who you send to and at least right now only 2 people haven’t given their full name.

@brainmist me too – I was on vacation in fl. And didn’t read all the threads

@AttyVette and @brainmist send an email asap to MehricanExchange6@yahoo.com and I can work you in. I still have 13 emails to send out. I’ll just randomly insert the two of you into whatever is left unsent on the list.
You need Meh name, real name and address, any other comments you want to make, # of boxes (if you haven’t participated before you can only do one) and if you have done this before.

@AttyVette and @brainmist because someone sent me a non-working email address I can’t finish sending to my last few people tonight until they have a chance to send me a working one (if they don’t they will be cut from the exchange). So this buys you more time to email me the needed information. I want to finish this up by lunch Monday as I will be on the road starting Tuesday and I need to pack, do laundry, run around a half a million errands (what it feels like anyway from the list - at least 4 hours worth)…

@Kidsandliz thank you for all your hard work I know we all appreciate it

@candiedisilvio1 You are welcome.

@Kidsandliz No pressure, no rush… have all the emails been sent?

@ruouttaurmind They were as of late last night.

@Kidsandliz email received.