2018: Swap! in the Name of Yuletide || SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN.

[kindness_says]

If you are new to swaps, or to Yuletide, and curious: FAQ here. If you are old to swaps, read on!


YULESWAPS 2018 SCHEDULE:

+ Sign-up forms are open now and will close on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 9:00 PM PDT. Click here for a countdown, as always! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell yourself to set a reminder on your phone!

+ Match-ups will go out in late October, personal life and technology permitting. Probably over a 2- or 3-day period, because of mail merge sending limits.

+ This year's SENDING DEADLINE (for now) is Monday, November 12, 2018. Before signing up, please do a reality/calendar check to make sure you will have the money and time!


REMINDERS, ALWAYS REMINDERS:

+ Swaps Central: our all-in-one check-in form! You remember it. Still a thing.

+ Email: if you are new, we strongly suggest emailing us at yuleswaps at gmail dot com, just so your email will know we're not spam when we send match-ups.

+ DW/LJ: we will post here after match-ups go out, so everyone knows they definitely did. Please see the FAQ for instructions on how to track the various yuleswaps tags!

+ Sign-ups: PLEASE read instructions carefully, and take particular care not to typo your AO3 name or email! There's always someone whose poor sender is like, "gmail.co????" #yes really

+ Defaulting: look. If anything untoward (money, anxiety, life) should happen to you AT ANY POINT in the swapping process, please don’t just disappear. Tell us, and we’ll work it out! Promise. We are very nice.


And now...
Swap! in the Name of…
CANDY || BOOKS || DRINKS

Questions? Comments? First check out the FAQ, and then, if that doesn’t sort you, feel free to comment either here or there, or email us at yuleswaps at gmail!

(Us = me and anialove, who has very kindly agreed to help again.)

Comments

[liz_mo]

YAY! All three sign-ups done! I wish I could code, so we could do a proper website and I didn't have to fill in the same information three times every year.

That said, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all your hard work each year. This is my favourite Yuletide part!

[rocknroll1968]

Excited to give this a try! Just signed up!

[(Anonymous)]

This is the first year I'm thinking of participating and I have two questions!

I'm fine giving my address since my shipping address and apartment address vary, but has anyone not given their real name? I'm cautious about linking my real name in any capacity to my AO3 account.

Second, how many people do you have sign up for homemade treats? Curious because I bake non-stop from November to January and would be super interested in that aspect of it.

[flowerdeluce]

Swap newbie here (hoping I've done everything right so far.)

I've signed up for candyswap and can't wait to get shopping for sweet treats!

[badritual]

Yayyy! Loved doing the book swap last year!

[trialia]

All done! ;D

[(Anonymous)]

As I am in not-the-US I realise my chances of being matched to the same people as last year are higher. Both my sender and my recipient were super lovely, but I would kind of like NEW PEOPLE. Do you make any effort to shake things up or nah?

[bobcatmoran]

Huzzah, Yuleswaps!

FYI, if you are a person sending from non-US to US who is worried about whether your stuff will be seized by customs, and you are willing to wade through some rather complex tables, the USDA has their manuals for what you can/can't send publicly available.

Of particular interest might be the Miscellaneous and Processed Products Manual, which covers stuff like teas, tisanes, and dried fruit. Or you can shoot me a PM, as I actually do this stuff for a living. "Inspect and Release" means you're good. And if what you're sending doesn't show up in the manual (e.g. chocolate bars), you're also good.

[chanter1944]

I could not resist. I'm in! Chanter's first swap, not to mention first anything connected to Yuletide--eek!

[canadiandiamond]

AND DONE.

So excited omg. :D

[ysobel]

Ummmm stupid question -- do I count as part of the yuletide community? I haven't signed up in *mumblety* years, and I tend to pinch hit sometimes but don't always get things, and I'm tempted by swapness but not sure if I qualify.

[spoke]

Not procrastinating! Just swamped at work and couldn't remember when things started. Luckily I decided to search my email for 'yuletide' before sleeping...

Also, I may have signed up for all the swaps. Um. But I have a wonderful new job and I Can, so I Did! :D

[harborshore]

I am signed up! All three! For like, the third or fourth year. SO EXCITED even though I found out the mail lost my candy package last year, sigh.

[stasia]

I am so excited about this. I mean, I'm excited every year, but this year has been filled with upheaval and chaos and change for me and this is the first thing that's felt really like my personal Traditions are still in place.

YAY, swaps!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no! I'm late, by far too. D: