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Free Printable
Secret Santa Questionnaire
Pick the questions, add your own, and print a sheet for each person. Nothing to download and no email address to hand over.
Start from a setQuestions on the sheet
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Collect these answers without printing Start an exchange and participants answer the same questions in the app. Each answer goes to whoever drew them.
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Secret Santa Questionnaire
Your name
Sweet, savory, or neither
Coffee, tea, or neither
A shop you would happily get something from
Something under ten dollars you would always use
Something you already have, or would rather not get
Anything you are allergic to, or should not be given
Sizes, if clothing is likely
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What to ask, and what not to
The questions that work ask for something a giver can act on. A shop somebody would happily receive from, a size, a thing they would rather avoid, one cheap item they would always use. Each of those turns into a decision in a shop.
The question that does not work is the obvious one. Asking somebody what they want produces "anything is fine" from about half a group, and a sheet full of that is a sheet that cost everybody five minutes and told nobody anything. Ask around the gift rather than at it.
Two more worth including whatever else you drop. Anything they are allergic to, or should not be given, because that one is not about taste. And something they already have, which is the question that stops the third scented candle.
Handing them out and getting them back
Print one sheet per person and a couple of spares. Somebody always turns up who was not on the list, and a spare sheet is cheaper than a second trip to the printer.
Give a date, and make it earlier than feels necessary. People fill these in the day they are asked or not at all, so the useful deadline is the one that leaves you time to chase the four who did not.
Collect them yourself rather than asking people to pass them on. A sheet handed to a neighbor to hand to you is a sheet that ends up in a drawer.
Four sets, because an office is not a family
The office set asks about a desk, dietary restrictions and what somebody does outside work, and leaves out the questions that only make sense between people who know each other well. The family set asks about traditions and things somebody has been meaning to replace. The kids set is shorter and asks about characters, colors and what they are saving up for.
Every set is a starting point. Tick and untick whatever you like, and add up to five questions of your own if the group has something specific worth asking.
Or ask the same questions without the paper
Paper works in a room. It does not work for a team spread over three offices, and it does not survive being handed to somebody who then loses it.
An exchange run here can ask the same questions in the app instead. Each person answers on their phone, three of the four with a single tap, and the answers go straight to whoever drew them rather than back to an organizer who then has to distribute them. Nobody needs an account and nothing has to be printed.
Questions About the Questionnaire
Ask for things somebody can act on in a shop: a store they would happily receive from, sizes if clothing is likely, one cheap item they would always use, and anything they are allergic to or would rather avoid. Avoid asking what they want, which produces "anything is fine" from about half of any group.
It is free and there is nothing to download. The sheet prints straight from this page, and no email address is asked for at any point.
Yes, up to five. They print alongside the ones you have ticked and are not stored anywhere.
One per person and two or three spares. Somebody who was not on the original list almost always turns up, and a spare sheet costs nothing.
Yes. The office set is written for one: it asks about a desk, about dietary restrictions in case food is a possibility, and about what somebody does outside work, and it leaves out the questions that only make sense between people who know each other well.
No. An exchange run here can ask the same questions in the app, where each person answers on their phone and the answers go to whoever drew them. That is the better option for anybody not in one room.