Mumsnet Christmas Appeal: the thank you thread

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So the spreadsheets have been completed, the matches have gone out, all is done.

We're all waiting with bated breath. If you're a recipient and you'd like to pop back on here when your gift arrives to thank your donor then do remember to look out for your MN code which will have been included in the address on the packaging and include it in your post. The person who sent the gift will then be able to know it's you.

If anyone has any questions about anything to do with the Mumsnet Christmas Appeal then do please email [email protected].

Ho Ho Ho!

Just came on to say thank you to whoever the lovely person was that donated to me. :)

I'm still all bubbly at the thought of just being nominated and now that there is a gift here it has made me realise just how lovely this place is, it really put a smile to my face today when it came. Things have been hard recently this really helped for me to know that there are always people there.

I have kept one of the gifts for Xmas but DS managed to get to the Duplo brick package when I wasn't looking. I couldn't take it back off him once he got the paper off, so he currently is having a brilliant time and has spread them all over the floor. :o The other gift is now being kept high up so the monkey doesn't get to it!

Thank you again, it was such a lovely thing to do. And thank you to the person who nominated me, I know you wont know who I am under the NC but thank you it really meant a lot. :)

I can't stay away from this thread, it's as lovely to read as finding out I was nominated was, and I can't wait to put a proper thank you up to my nominee and my santa.

Every post is like a little reminder of how lovely this time of year can be.

Keep 'em coming.

I'm not going to name change for this as i wanted to thank my nominator as well as donator.

Mn recipient 191.

When i was nominated, i was worried that people would assume i was experiencing hard times and that there are far far more deserving people on mumsnet than me. Mnhq persuaded me that the gift is there as a lovely boost. Well, it has been.

I just wanted to explain to my donator/nominator that i had a terrible start to the year when i had my dd2 and got multiple blood clots in my lungs with days of being undiagnosed. I spent a while in hospital where my dd1 then refused to acknowledge me as i couldnt come home. After warfarin etc i'm fully on the mend and my dd2 is a blessing in our house. Dd1 is talking to me again.

But over the last two years, my dh's business went bust, people threatened to kill me and my children and we were forced to sell anything if value to rent a new home. This year my dh finally got a "proper" job, we moved into a decent house and are in the catchment for a lovely school for dd. ive relocated to a lovely area and life is good. Our finances remain a battle and today dh texted me to wish him luck as he went to court to file for bankruptcy. That is the best way for us to rebuild our lives.

I texted good luck opened my door to a very very generous card of vouchers. I'm not ashamed to say i sat and cried. I'm sorry my post is long but i really wanted to convey just how much it meant to have such generosity from a stranger. We are by no means destitute, and our life is amazing at the moment but your gift was the cherry on the cake for what feels like a new life emerging. Thank you .

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Just happy tears. TheDoctorsWife

I just wanted to let my recipient MN187 know that a second parcel is on its way to you. You should have received the first parcel a couple of days ago straight from the shop.

Oh and Doctorswife I really wish you and your family a wonderful christmas, the only way is up!

To my recipient MN063 - your "parcel" will be coming to you early next week - i have been away, and just wanted you to know that someone is thinking of you and preparing something for you!

SSMN187 I was just coming online to say ohmygosh thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm so sorry I've not had a chance to say thanks yet as we were on holiday until late on Sunday night and I'm only just catching up with online type stuff.

It was the loveliest surprise to come home and find a massive box, I don't think I made much sense explaining to DP where it had come from, but it was hard to justify to myself why we deserved it! DD is going to LOVE it, thank you so much, it ties in perfectly with her present from us :)

And you may have just made me cry a little with your message there about sending another parcel , you really really didn't need to do that!! You've been so generous already! I haven't read the whole thread yet so am going to go back and do so now. But, just wow, thank you so much you lovely lovely lady

The smile I have now reading your post StopEatingThatMud will stay with me until Christmas. I'm glad you think she will like it.

You are so very very welcome

I love Christmas on MN

In the hopes that recipient MN091 is reading this post - I am very much looking forward to being part of this initiative and sending you and your DCs something for Christmas. My concern is that the presents will be very different depending on whether you have been nominated as a thankyou or because you are in need (or, indeed both). The e mail didn't give me any clue as to what you would like, or what would be useful. If you do read this post and could give me a hint whether you need basics or pampering, I would be really grateful - over thinking it I'm sure but I really want to make a relevant contribution to this heart warming scheme.

TheDoctorswife46 so glad they arrived safely, and so quickly.
Yesterday was a bit of an experience, as you may have read below!

However, I don't feel so much of a boob anymore.

Well a bit actually because DH thought I'd lost the plot when I started blubbing inexplicably at my iPad.

I wish you and your family a very peaceful Christmas, and my thoughts are with you today, I hope it goes well for your husband, he sounds very blessed to have such a supportive partner.

Take care of yourself x

A very big thank you to secret Santa 148.

DP had left the parcel in the kitchen as I was asleep when the postie arrived. I came downstairs and spotted it and started muttering and swearing about my DP buying stuff we couldn't afford from eBay. But it was addressed to ME!

The presents are so perfect, I swear you must know my DC! One of the things had even been on my DS1's list for a few years and I felt bad that once again I hadn't got it. But there it was! You kind, generous, psychic, genius you.

AND a voucher for meeeeee. Without sounding all pathetic and woe is me but I don't usually get Christmas presents for me (and I genuinely don't mind) so it was so so nice to get a gift. I'll enjoy picking myself a treat. Thank you, thank you.

We've had a stressful few weeks recently and this was just the pick-me-up we needed. My DP is completely bamboozled by the whole idea of it and totally amazed at what a kind person you are.

I hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas, you deserve it.

I don't think we know what number we are until we receive our parcels SecretSantaMN091

But I think you are lovely for asking that. x

SS191. I only just twigged that that saga with receipts etc was for me. Its given me such a laugh. Honestly, thank you so so much for such a kind gift. It really does mean everything to me today.

Next year i'll be on the donators list. Merry xmas everyone xxxxxxx (unmnetty kisses they are so nerrrr)

@ being called a silly sausage.

SecretSanta091 perhaps MNHQ can give you a clue?

MN169

So glad it arrived, Royal Mail at it's best.

Glad DS is enjoying himself :)

MN147
a ginormous thank you for my present which arrived on Saturday. I am overwhelmed by your generosity towards a complete stranger. I'd got back from hospital late the night before after an unexpected complication and am only well enough today to post.

I wish you and your family a very happy and peaceful Christmas. unmumsnety hugs

and also want to say just like someone else, that even just being nominated for it was enough really. That MNers had noticed me made me cry - though I do that a lot at the moment - and getting an actual gift was the icing on the cake. Next year, when I am well I will be a donor.

This thread is lovely and has brought back the lovely feelings I had when we were lucky enough to receive surprises in the post. Explaining to the children why someone they didn't know had sent them presents was tricky..

I was a donor last year but didn't offer this year as I was worried last years gifts were crap as I never received a post saying they were received and enjoyed. I felt I couldn't donate again as I couldn't guarantee I could afford much. I so want to be able to join in next year though so will be saving hard.

Recipient 148 - thank you so much for your lovely message - I was all a bit teary! It was an absolute pleasure buying the gifts, and I'm so glad they weren't massively off-target. Have a lovely Christmas - and remember that voucher is for you and you alone :o.

Bless you fabulous I'm sure the recipient was incredibly grateful and was so wrapped in the season that posting her thanks just slipped her mind. We can't all afford to send incredibly expensive gifts. I had a wobble about mine to my DM but as she sagely reminded me, it's the thought that counts, not the amount spent or number of gifts.

I don't speak for everyone else, but I will be too busy being glad someone thought about me enough to send my kids a present, than rating the standard of it. The very fact that someone noticed and nominated me has filled me up, never mind the actual gifts themselves. They are the cherry to me. I am already so drunk on Christmas spirit that it's all amazing from that point forwards.

So stop worrying donors, you are all doing a lovely thing. Thinking of someone else at Christmas is an amazing, kind, charitable thing to do, and you are putting smiles onto a lot of faces. It's not about the presents, it's about the people you share Christmas with, and I've got my cup filled and overflowing with this thread.

All this talk of multiple parcels is giving me a wobble about "boring" gifts, but mine will be in the post tomorrow.

Off to write my Christmas cards now.