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COTH Holiday Swap Information - Signup deadline is NOVEMBER 1!

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  • #81
    I'm in! I missed out on the festivities last year, but NOT this time! SOunds like fun and I need some Christmas Cheer, this year especially!
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    • #82
      THANKS! shmon!
      Too Cool now I can have a really good reason to buy extra stuff at the Equine affair and my husband won't know whats for me and whats for gifts
      ~OMGiH I LOFF my Mare~ clique
      ~When life hands you lemons, get some tequila and salt, and call me over!!~

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        #83
        Just My Style - just send me a general idea of the highest you want to spend. Round it to the nearest $10. Most people have been listing $30, $40, and $50.
        "These are my principles. If you do not like them, I have others." --Groucho Marx

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        • #84
          I just sent you an email! Thanks!

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          • #85
            I hope you got my email from over a week ago. Is there any way to check and make sure? I signed up for around $40 range (no more than $50 total with shipping etc.) Do you have a list of the participants we could check to make sure we are on the list? Thanks!
            She wasn't running away with me, I just couldn't stop her!

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              #86
              Buffyblue, I got your email

              I have 113 people signed up so far. If you want confirmation, PT me or email me (COTHswap@hotmail.com) and I'll make sure your email is in the pile
              "These are my principles. If you do not like them, I have others." --Groucho Marx

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              • #87
                I need to change my information as obviously Aero is no longer with me
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                • #88
                  Shmon, I sent you an e-mail to COTHswap@hotmail.com, can you PT me to let me know if you got it? thanks...I want to make somebody's xmas a little bit better this year.

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                  • Original Poster
                    #89
                    You've got a PT, Little Indian
                    "These are my principles. If you do not like them, I have others." --Groucho Marx

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                    • #90
                      and you have got one back

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                      • #91
                        Wow, I guess I'll sign up too! I'm mostly a lurker but am being braver and posting a little more, so I'm beginning to feel like a part of the COTH community.

                        I just hope my gift is up to snuff!

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                        • #92
                          me too!! i'll sign up in the $30-$40 range!

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                          • #93
                            I have just decided that I will forego the COTH Holiday Swap this year and instead of spending $50 on a gift I will add that to what I am sending to someone really in need and that is Pascal Martin. With his injury, surgery, and lack on income and continuing bills, I feel better about giving to him. Anyone else feel this way???? After all I have really been blessed and don't need a thing!!
                            http://www.talloaksfarm.net ---"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." --- Winston Churchill

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                            • #94
                              <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by alexandra:
                              Anybody else who wants to participate and has send or received from/in overseas ? Except for Weatherford who shared already my (im-)patience with receiving the COTH in Europe...

                              Tell me what you got or bought, it sounds really fun ! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                              Ah, sometimes I am not even sure I HAVE a subscription to the COTH!!! Most of the time, actually... Ditto Horse & Hound - more expensive to buy it locally, but at least I can GET it that way!!!

                              I would like to be able to get & send off my presents when I am in the US in November - will be be organized by then??

                              Hey, you can make things easier and just make Periwinkle my giftee again! It was FUN to find gifts for her!
                              co-author of 101 Jumping Exercises & The Rider's Fitness Program; Soon to come: Dead Ringer - a tale of equine mystery and intrique! Former Moderator!

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                              • #95
                                Oh rats, I meant to put Weatherford's new book on my wish list.

                                I loff the COTH holiday swap - oh yeah!
                                ~* Be kind to one another *~

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                                • #96
                                  Uh-oh, I better get gong. I'll go along with $30-40, seems the norm.
                                  http://www.angelfire.com/ult/irishmosaic/Dublin/

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                                  • #97
                                    if you guys need help matching up COTHers etc please let me know--I am trying to keep myself busy these days.......
                                    Co-founder of White Trash Dressage (WTD)
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                                    also available on Amazon.com
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                                    • #98
                                      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Weatherford:

                                      Ah, sometimes I am not even sure I HAVE a subscription to the COTH!!! Most of the time, actually... Ditto Horse & Hound - more expensive to buy it locally, but at least I can GET it that way!!!

                                      <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
                                      Well a little story to laugh about: Freinds of mine order a lot of horsey magazines. Sometimes they get them rather late even though from Germany. But they have a suspicion: Their mail person is also riding and they think she reads them all first.

                                      I do not think that is the case with my coth (huuh a foreign language) because it is always in a plastic bag.
                                      I am not responsible for spelling misstacks - just my PC
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                                      • #99
                                        Time to stop procrastinating here! I'm in for $50. Email on the way.

                                        A reminder for those shipping overseas - a lot of things seemed to get hung up in customs last year, especially to Canada. I'm still not sure how I managed to send jellybeans, since someone has since told me it's illegal to mail candy. Hmmmm. So check on shipping rules before you try to send something.
                                        'Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.'
                                        - Pablo Picasso

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                                        • #100
                                          Illegal to send candy! Oh horror! Actually, I don't think that's true. My relatives in Germany send me goodies a few times a year, I order Kinder Eggs (yum) through eBay from Canada, and I sent homemade shortbread to the UK. And I've found these items are usually delivered faster than domestic stuff (7 or 8 days). Is there some new secret provision in the Homeland Security Act that forbids sweeties from entering the country?
                                          "I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.

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