Attention! Big Reaper of 2020 sign up and discussion thread!

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bethene

Discussion Starter · Jul 15, 2020

Here it is.. the main reaper of the year!! PLEASE read all the info here... it will answer some of your questions. but if not.. let me know! Lets make this a great reaper season!!! Let the games begin!

PLEASE, for your sake, AND for the sake of your reaper please participate in the thread, even if just commenting once in a while, and make it easier by having picture, pinterest, or the like.

Also PLEASE let your reaper know when your gift arrives,, people become concerned that their boxes got lost, which has happened in the past, So make sure you do that!!!! Also. POST PICTURES of your gifts. It is only the polite thing to do,,

So on with the dates: here is the
Official Sign up thread for the Big Reaper!

Start of sign up: July 14, 2020
Ending date for sign up: August 17, 2020
Shipping Deadline: Sept 14, 2020

Rules:
1. The MINIMUM value of the gift must be $20.00, please follow this,
2. The gift can be homemade, store bought, or a combination of the 2.
3. gift can be Halloween , Day Of The Dead, or any other "haunt" related or décor items
4.You must get a tracking number when shipping your gift
5. please post in the thread that your gift arrived
6. If you are having a issue with sending a gift, please contact me to see if it can be resolved: if you do not send a gift but have received one, you will be banned from further secret reapers.

If you agree to these terms and would like to participate, please message Bethene with the following information:
Name and address

Likes, dislikes, themes (if any), and any other info you feel might help your victim (example< out door haunt, indoor party,. PLEASE, make it as detailed as possible, it makes it so much easier !!! Again, DETAILS!!!!!!!
Example, instead of I like witches, what do you like, potion bottles, spellbooks, brooms, etc.

Also. do you want to ship to the USA only, Canada and USA, Canada only, Europe only or anywhere. Please let me know in your PM.

Also if anyone has any questions please PM me!

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Witchful Thinking

· #6 · Jul 15, 2020

So excited. Despite that I procrastinated my list...will work on it and get signed up ASAP! Hurray!

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Witchful Thinking

· #10 · Jul 16, 2020

WitchyKitty said:
I can't sign up, right now...probably not at all...due to us both being laid off due to Covid...me permanently and my husband temporarily, as we know, atm. (He was laid off until Sept., originally, but then found out they decided to close our local location and, if he stays with the company, he will have to commute to the main location. If he stays there, he doesn't even know if he will be able to keep his position/salary that he worked so hard to get to with 18 years with the company, or if he will have to take whatever position/pay they can squeeze him in at in the main location...which could be a major pay cut. He may even have to find a new job, which means losing 18 years of seniority and benefits, plus all his hard work to get where he is. It's all around bad.)
He was approved for unemployment, but hasn't been able to actually get anything from it, yet...even though he was supposed to, already. He can't get in contact with them, either...was put on a callback list. So, we have been without income, besides me selling the occasional small craft and my husband doing odd jobs for our neighbor and his parents. Since we won't hear from his job until, maybe August and he won't have a chance to be back to work there in any way until at least September...then I can't think it possible for me to be able to sign up by end of sign ups.
Long sob story over... regardless, I will still hang out in bethene's bushes with y'all and then watch to see what you all get. Happy Reaper Season!!

That's a lot to be going through! So sorry you both are in that situation and that you won't be able to join in the reaper but so glad you are going to at least play with us in the shrubberies!! Sending you good thoughts that things turn around soon! Do you have a shop for your crafts? Would love to check it out---if it works for my victim's likes it would be a good way to both support a fellow haunter and get you involved in the reaper, even if not in a direct way!

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Witchful Thinking

· #16 · Jul 17, 2020

Hurray!! The party is starting! Thank you for putting up the lights, and I know I said it before but that's gerbil masks are the best!! {{Placing my blanket and pillows a safe distance from the pool...and wandering behind the bar..}} I will mix up the first batch until the usual suspects arrive. What shall we have.....Quarantinis maybe?

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Witchful Thinking

· #44 · Jul 21, 2020

Been reading the likes/dislikes lists and feeling that familiar feeling of excitement and nervousness! Need to get mine revised so I can get officially signed up! Thanks for keeping the party going Witchy Kitty and BR1MSTON3! Never had those tasty drinks but I noted the recipe!

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Witchful Thinking

· #75 · Jul 23, 2020

Ahhhh there you are Lady Arsenic we were missing you!! Glad you are on the scene, mayhem is sure to ensue! (The best kind of course). Love seeing the new names and familiar faces getting signed up! Witchy Kitty...you are such a great Reaper Coach! Getting so excited!!!!

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Witchful Thinking

· #145 · Jul 26, 2020

So happy to see the Auditor and the gerbils appear! Loving all the tasty cocktails and banter going around. Almost feels normal. {sighing happily}

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Witchful Thinking

· #271 · Aug 9, 2020

FINALLY got my sign up turned in! I don't know why I dread the making my likes/dislikes list so much! NOW I can relax and start chanting until I get my VICTIM....victim....victim. I mean some year we will wear bethene down and she will give us our victims early right????

Spookerstar and I have been plotting and dreaming and trying to figure out any possible way we can get together for our traditional reaper crafting weekend. Its looking pretty likely we won't be able to due to the pandemic and my husband being such high risk. It has had me so down all week and my brain on overdrive on how to get the risk down to manageable level. This will be the first year we don't get to do it together.

I know we will still find a way to share in the fun together and I feel bad complaining when I know others are going through so much. Just missing family so very much. I guess one plus will be I don't have to worry that I will get her as my victim this year. All the other years I imagine what will happen if I get her and then have to craft for her right in front of her while trying to pretend its for someone else!

So pass me a cocktail----I am going to go see if I can convince the gerbils to recon the list so I can begin stalking!

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Witchful Thinking

· #277 · Aug 10, 2020

Been perusing the likes/dislikes and getting super excited to get started!!

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Witchful Thinking

· #380 · Aug 16, 2020

Getting so very excited and nervous!!! Wishing tomorrow was victim day!!!

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Witchful Thinking

· #399 · Aug 17, 2020

Fully aware I won't get assigned my victim until tomorrow morning at the earliest but that hasn't stopped me from logging in to check 3 times already....just in case.

The last day is the longest!!!!!!

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Witchful Thinking

· #412 · Aug 17, 2020

Shadow Panther said:
I really need this reap this year. I just found out I lost my third friend this year. One to suicide, another to asthma and now a massive heart attack. I really hate this year. That being said I am jumping even more into crafting for my victim.

So very sorry to hear this. This year has seriously been the worst in so many ways. Really hope you can find some small amount of relief from your grief in Halloween reaper fun.

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Witchful Thinking

· #413 · Aug 17, 2020

Summer said:
Now that I have a desktop in my face I was able to update my likes/dislikes list from yesterday afternoon! I was having the WORST time trying to type on my phone yesterday for some reason. Hence, why my first likes/dislikes post was so vague, including the one bethene got from me! Glad that it's a bit more detailed!!

Anyway, seeing as it is my first time participating I was wondering what kind of items everyone has liked receiving for prior exchanges? Store bought or crafted? I'm REALLY hoping to get my hands on a victim that will require some imagination and crafting on my end! I've been doing it for WEEKS now in preparation for my wedding and I've forgotten how much I love it! Ha

Exciting you are planning a wedding! I am sure the is challenging with everything going on...the secret reaper before my wedding was an extra fun/special one! Hope yours is too!

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Witchful Thinking

· #414 · Aug 17, 2020

It's a Halloween miracle!!! Did I get my victim early you might ask?? Well no...but that hasn't stopped me from checking 15 times despite sign up not being over yet. 👻 However, after resigning ourselves that Spookerstar and I were not going to be able to do our traditional secret reaper weekend we just figured out that quarantines will align and we can maybe do it the last weekend before the shipping deadline. I have been feeling so isolated from family and missing her terribly, this would be such a boost if it happens. Its our 10th year in the Secret Reaper and our favorite way to kick off the season. Fingers crossed it works out.

🎃 Even if it doesn't work out, fear not dear victims. We still plan to spoil you rotten! 💀 We will be stalking, shopping and crafting before then! (We usually bite off more than we can chew and end up shipping on the deadline anyway.)

So let the Reaper begin.....<hint hint Bethene> Until then I raise a glass to all of you....thank you for being the people that make this such a remarkable event. One with near strangers sending each other boxes of gifts that so much thought, time and care go into. One that is so special to so many of us that even in this most challenging year we turn to it as a comfort. Where all the chatter I hear is about the excitement at what they will get to make, or find or plan for someone else, not for what they will get. And for our Reaper Queen for still doing it <turning toward Bethene's house chanting> VICTIM, VICTIM, VICTIM

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Witchful Thinking

· #417 · Aug 17, 2020

bethene said:
I sent a few victims out. I will do it sporadically tonight.
I forgot how very much I miss the forward method of sending victims. Copy and paste sucks!

I hope you know all my teasing and begging is meant in fun. I treasure and look forward to the Secret Reaper every year. I know it it is a LOT of work on your end. So grateful.

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Witchful Thinking

· #439 · Aug 18, 2020

Just lounging here in Bethene's shrubberies sipping Prosecco content in the knowledge the wait is almost over. Enjoying listening to the crickets and what I think is the sound of drunken gerbils who are celebrating another successful reaper patrol. 🐹

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Witchful Thinking

· #463 · Aug 18, 2020 (Edited)

I have been really patient today. I only checked 1,453,298 times so far to see if I have my victim. Ha!

Loving all the posts though and cheering every time I see someone got theirs!!

I should add—I have been feeling so hyped and happy today which is not exactly a common occurrence this year. Thank you!

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Witchful Thinking

· #469 · Aug 19, 2020

ceo418 said:
I got married two years ago in October and went with the "Fall in love" direction with pumpkins and fall decor. It was perfect but the whole time I was planning I secretly wanted to get something Halloween in there! 🎃

I got married in October 5 years ago and same!Although I just went with romantic, autumn, pumpkins etc. I did do a Halloween honeymoon! We stayed at a beautiful house on a lake with prime foliage viewing and took day trips including one to Salem. 🎃

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Witchful Thinking

· #473 · Aug 19, 2020

WitchyKitty said:
To those of you who have been saying your Victim's lists are so much like your own...you know I'm going to go read lists, now, to see if any look just like mine and see if you could be my Reaper, hahaha.

To Shadow Panther...It gets really cold, here, in the Winter. I like to be warm!

I thought the same about Shadow Panthers comment!!

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Witchful Thinking

· #477 · Aug 19, 2020

Holly Haunter said:
What was Salem like? I’ve always wanted to visit!

I got to go the week before Halloween and it was wonderful. There was far less Halloween stuff than I might have thought but gorgeous, historic and the shops were too die for. We are a delicious meal looking out in the water. You aren’t allowed to take pictures in most of the best ones but great experience. I had posted on the forum I was going and looking for recommendations. A member who lives near there surprised me by sending me pamphlets she collected for me! This place is the best!

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Witchful Thinking

· #478 · Aug 19, 2020

bethene said:
yes. if someone gets their info in asap ... there is still time until all names are given out! I know I have more to go,,, I am sorry but had enough for now. I might get back on and do more yet tonight, so sorry if you are waiting anxiously!!!

Really appreciate you letting us know!

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