Based on my match's preferences got to head into the office tomorrow to get my package together - I hide some of my cellar there where the wife doesn't know about it! Also free shipping using the machine. Box should make it in plenty of time.
The (Un)Official Secret Santa 2020!
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Not heading to the office, but I've got to do a little shopping. Based on what I've read on this site over the last few months, I wouldn't have expected anyone to actually put down that their preferences were goopy aros and codger blends. I don't have any of that stuff so I'm doing a little shopping.
Fortunately, I've found the holy grail - I found flavors you can basically add to your own tobacco. Well, I've read that it's better to put the concentrated flavoring on a cotton ball and then put that ball into a bag with some of the tobacco to flavor it up. So, I'll throw in my 2 tin requirement since I've got a few standard C&D tins laying around, run of the mill stuff, and then spend most of my secret Santa budget on buying up a ton of these codger blends, buying a dozen types of this flavoring you can add to your tobacco, and then try to make a more personal gift for my target. I figure it'll be a more heartfelt gift since it's something I'm making vs. something I'm buying. Who would have ever imagined this was possible? Some of these flavors look cool, too. Flavors like 'joy,' 'maxx,' 'black fire,' and 'cowboy blend,' to name a few.
I won't spill any more of the beans, but man, this could get good. And here you guys are joking about Captain Black Grape. This box is gonna end up being the codger blend version of a fruitcake!
Incorrect. I'm not shopping for flavors I intend to brew in house. I'd appreciate it, sir, if you would stop ruining the surprise.
I hate aros, but actually do enjoy this once every few months. No joke, unless it’s on me.
good grief! Sent and received in two days? Did you use next day service or is your secret Santa your next door neighbour?
IKR!!! Dan was nice enough to give me a local person only 20 mins away. Could have dropped it off faster and cheaper ?
2 tins of Holly's Non Plus Ultra are out of the door!
Nah, I jest. I don't have 2 tins of HNPU and if I did I'd keep them for myself!
As my giftee's tastes are not what I cellar, I have asked my trusty elf, smokingpipes.com, to dispatch a couple of hopefully desirable delectables to said giftee. HO HO HO!
Nah, I jest. I don't have 2 tins of HNPU and if I did I'd keep them for myself!
As my giftee's tastes are not what I cellar, I have asked my trusty elf, smokingpipes.com, to dispatch a couple of hopefully desirable delectables to said giftee. HO HO HO!
“codger blend version of a fruitcake”...sounds a bit like some of our forum members
It was a bit of a juggling act, balancing tastes with location. I read everyone's preferences, then matched preferences where possible. I figured that folks might want to pull something special from their cellar. If tastes aligned with someone in-state or a fairly close state, I made that match. It didn't work out for everyone, and some of you will be shipping cross-country. If there were only two people in an unnamed country north of mine that has idiotic postal regulations, then, well....you know what happened.
BTW, has anyone else spotted "Tobacco Man" in my sig photo?
@condorlover1 i have been informed by a forum member that Santa is coming for you from across the Atlantic. Be warned. It sounds nasty.
But like, there’s literally no way for me to be paired with anyone that isn’t “cross-country” since the moose didn’t participate this year...
Well at least this year I didn't get paired off with Borat!
I'm still doing my research...my guy has a lot of posts with not so many on his favorite tobacco's (that I have found yet). Hopefully he likes aged Latakia that I hardly ever grab...
⚠⚠⚠ Be Vigalant this Holiday Season the grinch has a hankering for VaPer blends and has his eyes on your mailbox.. ⚠⚠⚠
Sent mine off this morning to my fellow forum victim poster! I hope he enjoys my choice as I am always hopeful of another convert to my unique tobacco tastes! 
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