r/secretsanta

269K archived posts · Nov 2009 – Sep 2026

reddit Secret Santa

r/secretsanta

/r/secretsanta and Reddit Gifts were started in 2009 to provide a Secret Santa exchange for the Reddit community. On January 24, 2022, Redditgifts was officially closed and we are no longer running exchanges. LONG LIVE REDDITGIFTS!

Created Nov 10, 2009

215KMembers (last snapshot)

269KArchived posts

What is redditgifts?

r/secretsanta and Reddit Gifts were started in 2009 to provide a Secret Santa exchange for the Reddit community. On January 24, 2022, Redditgifts was officially closed and we are no longer running exchanges. You can read more about this decision in the announcement post here. LONG LIVE REDDITGIFTS!

Rules

Posts which include the following will be removed to the mods discretion:

Posted by throwaways, alt accounts or on behalf of another user as we cannot investigate the issue at hand.
Complaints about gifts, Santas, or giftees. This should go through official channels rather than public shaming.
Asking for one-on-one exchanges outside of redditgifts.
Offering to send a gift to someone who wasn't matched or who didn't get a gift.
"Gift spoilers." Let your giftee see their gift for the first time when open the box, not on r/SecretSanta.
We are a meme-free subreddit.
No karma whoring.
This is one of the nicest places on the Internet, so we expect participants to be polite and civil to one another.

Self promotion

Despite the closure of the marketplace and Redditgifts, we continue to disallow self-promotion in r/SecretSanta.

Helpful links

I have a question...

Have you checked the FAQ?
Are you looking for tips and procedures? Try Redditgifts 101!
Are you looking for hi-res images to use with your gift?
Contacting the Moderators?
- Please do not use a throwaway account when contacting the mods, and please include your username.
Missed the signups?
- Sorry, we cannot add anyone once signups close.
- Sign up for redditgifts now and be alerted when new exchanges are announced!
Is there a cost to participating?
- No, redditgifts is free to participate. However, you are expected to send a thoughtful gift.

What exchanges are going on and coming up?

Check out the exchanges page for more detail on past, present, and future exchanges.

For a list of upcoming exchanges for 2021, please click here. For a calendar of key dates, check out this Google Calendar we've created. Dates for future exchanges may change, but current exchanges will be correct.

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