please tell me what a secret santa is?

Answer 1

Now if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret any longer, now would it?

Answer 2

Some workplaces organize "secret Santas", in which people draw names out of a hat and buy a gift for the person they chose. The recipient does not find out who his/her secret Santa is until Christmas Day. This is usually done to alleviate the costs of the holidays so that each person only has to buy one gift and each person receives one gift in turn.

Answer 3

Usually around this time people do the whole secret Santa thing. Its basically anonymous gift giving to whoever is in on it. Everyone puts there name in a hat (or watever). You pick out a name without looking and whoever you pick is whom u owe a gift! They find out when you hand it to them or never at all, however you like to play it. Its fun, for the most part... Its better when you put a price limit (high and low) on the gifts that way every ones happy at the end of the deal.

Answer 4

A secret santa is usually a term used in a gift exchange where the participants choose names at random so that no one knows who they will get their gift from. It makes the exchanges more intresting and gives people a chance to give presents to people that they might not otherwise buy for.

Answer 5

Secret Santa, Pollyanna, Kris Kindle or Kris Kringle, and sometimes, but rarely Gnoming is a Christmas ritual involving a group of people exchanging anonymous gifts. The ritual is known as Secret Santa in the United States and Great Britain but Kris Kindle in parts of the Commonwealth; both terms are acceptable and used in Australia or New Zealand. All of these names derive from traditional Christmas gift-bringers: the US version is named after Santa Claus while Kris Kindle and Kris Kringle are corruptions of the name of the German gift-bringer Christkind (in Britain the traditional gift-bringer is Father Christmas). The term Secret Santa can refer to the ritual itself, or any of the people participating. The purpose of Secret Santa is to restrict gift-giving. Because of this, it is often practised in workplaces, or amongst large families. Recently the name Secret Snowflake has been showing up as a secular term for the same practice, which has attracted much criticism, particularly with Christmas being the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.[citation needed] In Latin America, it is called Amigo Secreto (Secret Friend).

Participation is usually voluntary, especially in workplace settings.

Answer 6

A secret Santa is when someone gives gifts to a person but they don't tell the person who they are.

Answer 7

well you get a group of people and put all the names in a hat. Choose one, and if nobody has their own name, that is who you buy a present/presents for. It can either be every day or just one thing.
On a set date, you give the person your present(s) and they either have to guess who their secret santa was, or never know.
Its much more fun to guess though!!!!

Answer 8

its someone who acts like santa and gives a gift out secretely

Answer 9

A secret santa is someone who gives you a present but you don't know who it is.

Answer 10

Participants' names are placed in a hat, and each person draws a name for whom they are to buy a gift. Along with name submission, each participant may also submit a short wishlist of items from which the gift-giver can choose. There is often a limit to how much can be spent on the present. Presents are then exchanged anonymously.

Answer 11

Some families or workplaces organize "secret Santas", in which people draw names out of a hat and buy a gift for the person they chose. The recipient does not find out who his/her secret Santa is until Christmas Day. This is usually done to alleviate the costs of the holidays so that each person only has to buy one gift and each person receives one gift in turn.