<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>The wshstack blog</title><link>https://wshstack.app/blog/</link><description>Recent content on The wshstack blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://wshstack.app/blog/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Secret Santa rules, price limits and how to draw names without drama</title><link>https://wshstack.app/blog/secret-santa-rules/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wshstack.app/blog/secret-santa-rules/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A good Secret Santa needs exactly three decisions made up front: the budget, the deadline, and how you draw names. Everything else is decoration. Here is how to settle each one without a single argument in the group chat.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h2 id="set-the-price-limit-first"&gt;Set the price limit first&lt;/h2&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Agree on a number before anyone draws a name. A limit that works for the lowest earner in the group works for everyone — $20–30 covers most office and family exchanges in the US, £15–25 in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>How to make a wishlist your family will actually use</title><link>https://wshstack.app/blog/how-to-make-a-wishlist-your-family-will-actually-use/</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://wshstack.app/blog/how-to-make-a-wishlist-your-family-will-actually-use/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Most family wishlists are created in a rush in the second week of December and abandoned by the first week of January. The list was not the problem. The habits around it were. Here are the five that keep a shared list alive all year — so the next birthday does not start with &amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t know, anything is fine&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>