Thread:Vicki04/@comment-35319541-20180528031918/@comment-35315474-20180602055926

I also feel honored to be included in the big wave of giving (I call it the giving circle 😊). I still say "yes thank you" when I get a CI! 😂 I don't think that will ever end. But now my "yes, ty" is so I can help other friends. So the joy just keeps on going!

I usually gift CIs from WLs around noonish to 2ish (central time). I have to do it before I send my TT gifts because my giftbox fills up with TY gifts very quickly once I've sent everything. I made the mistake of gifting CIs after sending TT gifts, only to find my giftbox was already at 500 by the time I stopped gifting the CIs. I usually gift over 100 CIs each round so it takes some time to do it all – longer than it takes to send TT gifts.

I will try to send extras when I see CIs on your WL so you can enjoy some for yourself, as well as enjoy giving them to your friends. Sometimes I get distracted and just gift without really paying attention so I'll probably miss it a few times, but I should be able to keep up most of the time.

What I see happening is that by giving to others, others give to us, so we get the joy of both! Those who hang on tightly to everything they have don't understand that they've missed the whole point of the game. Yeah, we play to win events and level up rooms, but the true game is the friendships we form. Even with my non-board friends, I have developed a friendship based on their responses to my gifts. There are a few who insist on sending me CIs even when my WL is empty. So they send me random CIs which I think is very thoughtful of them. So I imagine to myself how much they must enjoy it when they can gift me something from my WL! So even after I build up my inventory to the point I won't need anything anymore, I will still put CIs on my WL from time to time just so those friends can feel the joy of being able to help me back. 😊