I have a dear friend who has forwarded this to me with her own message about how she totally wants to try it.
Welcome to our secret sister gift exchange!! Here's how it works:
1) Send one gift value at least $10 to secret sister that is place NUMBER ONE BELOW
2) Remove secret sister's name from #1; then move secret sister #2 to that spot.
3) Add your name to #2 with your info.
4) Copy the secret sister request and that I posted on my wall, to your own wall (or text 6 friends).
5) Then send this info to 6 other ladies with the updated name info.
If you cannot complete this within 1 week please notify me, as it isn't fair to the ladies who have participated and are waiting for their own gifts to arrive.
You can order directly from a web-based service (Amazon, or any other online shop) which saves a trip to the post office.
Soon you should receive 36 gifts! What a deal, 36 gifts for giving just one!
Seldom does anyone drop out because it's so much fun to send a gift to someone you may or may not know...and of course it's fun to receive.
You should begin receiving gifts in about 2 weeks if you get your gifts out to your 6 people right
1) [Name 1]
[Address 1]
2) [Name 2]
[Address 2]
P.S. Don't forget: move #2 (that would be me) up to #1 and put yours at #2.
Then send to the 6 (or more!) people that respond to your post! Thanks a bunch!!! I'm so excited!!!!
Sigh. I don't even remember why chain letters don't work, I just remember figuring this out twenty years ago in high school and making it a blanket life policy rule of thumb thing (like: Never buy anything from somebody doing an MLM situation, or Never go to a timeshare sales pitch no matter how yummy the free food is, or Never refinance your house to pay down credit card debt). I just don't do chain letters.
This friend is very sweet but we're too old for me to feel comfortable saying...hey, chain letters are a scam; didn't you figure that out in middle school?
How do I explain what a chain letter is and why they don't work?
MOD EDIT: Redacted names and addresses. Even if changed to fake info, don't want someone reading this and trying it by sending something to fake people.