I received a nice letter which reads:

I hope the start of your first school year is going well! i've never participated in this specific exchange before, but i think it is such a great idea. The main reason i signed up for the exchange is because my two best friends and roommates in college were both elementary education majors, and they just started their first year of teaching as well! they teach 4th and 5th grade. They are fortunately in a couple of pretty good districts and don't need assistance, so i thought it's be fun to give to someone else in honor of them. i'm super excited to be paired with you since you are a new teacher too! I was also excited to see that when i looked up your address, you are near Houston and Sugarland. I just visited Houston for the first time this past March for that ncaa tournament regional games and stayed in Sugarland because i have a friend from there. Houston was such a great time! As far as the supplies gift... I know you were probably disappointed when you didn't see a bunch of boxes of notebooks on your doorstep. please let me explain. When i searched online for notebooks, the prices were super high. When i went into the store, the notebooks were cheap, but the shipping costs would have taken away from the amount of money i could afford to spend on your supplies. Instead, I have decided to send a gift card with the hope that you can purchase the supplies locally. This way you can also customize what you get. I hope you're getting into the groove of school- i know my teacher friends have been very busy during these first few weeks of school. i wish you the best for the rest of the school year and in your future career as a teacher. it takes a very special intelligent and caring person to become a teacher, so thank you very much for choosing the profession you did.

Your secret santa, Jackoff814

P.S If you feel inclined, i would love an update of how your school year goes or if you need anything else, i'd be happy to help!

I received this letter along with a $70 gift card to Walmart, and a cool IOWA coozy. I then proceeded to go to Walmart that night and buy every single $0.17 spiral they had all 264 of them. And plan on spending the remainder 21$ on the card on other supplies like pencils, loose leaf paper, and glue.

I am overwhelmed by the response. I was honestly expecting someone to go to walmart during $0.10 spiral sale get 50 then send that. This was WAY more than i expected. From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!