Hello all,

I wanted to tell the story of mine and my wife's exchange for Marvel this year.

I will begin and say me and my wife love Reddit gift exchanges and have done about 8 together since SS2013 so quite a few. Last month I told her of all the new exchanges and excitedly we both immediately signed up for the marvel exchange and we both filled in our details and squealed with joy at the prospect for potentially cute baby stuff for our first child of 4 months now so most of our details are about her as far as gifting ideas go. our matches got given to us I got someone in USA, all good bought some comics hope they like it! Then my wife got someone and we excitedly look at the details of the person and their likes. They like juggernaut and magneto, that's cool I like them too. They picked their day hangout spot as one question asked and they said Tony Starks mansion, what a coincidence I said that too. The person also said they had a child of 3 nearly 4 months a little girl. The similarities are uncanny at this point but my wife showed me the details and the name was Erik Lehnsherr(reddit mods keep reading before deleting, trust me) and that clearly isn't my name so wow just real similar so I think nothing more of it and I'm giving my wife cool magneto and juggernaut info so she can better specify what she wants to get her match.

My wife is quite handy at crocheting and sewing so she decides to make her matches daughter a cool magneto hat and I give her a few cool examples off Google and the colors etc and off she goes. She makes a prototype and it is absolutely adorable but a bit rough and sizing was a little big but since we have our own child of the same age she uses her head. She then gets some cool looking pictures from a game we play (Marvel Puzzle Quest in steam) and is going to put them in there so it looks like a cool package from like shield. She also takes a cool picture of magneto I told her to use as an example for the hat and she photoshops it into a little simplistic picture to include as a nice glossy print they can hang on the wall if they wanted to.

We run out of money since I just changed jobs but we planned to go to a comic book shop so we can get a Magneto Testament comic set for her match too so it isn't just handmade stuff incase they didn't like it. Since we hit money woes she tells me tonight about her match and asks me "how much can I spend for the rest" and I say well it's usually about 20 so that should be fine we already promised to get a gift so we can't stiff them now and she then says to me with a smile and a laugh "what if we didn't need to ship it" and I am puzzled.. I ask how we are going to get the package from NSW Australia to SA Australia. She then looks at me and I can tell she has possible tears coming and says "I got you" and I look at her stunned. No way this can't be she showed me the page she got Eric Lensherr in South Australia and nah no way. She then says "I got up earlier than you when I got the match email and looked and it was you, I got up and turned on the PC and double checked and I got really bummed out because your last 2 exchanges still have not arrived and may never arrive and this would be a third in a row where you might get nothing" I look at her stunned more and she continues "so instead of be bummed I got excited and thought I'd go all out and opened chrome and downloaded a mod that allows me to change details on a page and I changed the name and address so you wouldn't know other than the coincidental likes you listed" stunned still " so I planned doing a shield type package and all the cool stuff and when I changed the details you didn't notice I used Magnetos real name". SHE DID TOO, OMG. And then she cries a little "but we ran out of money so I can't finish it so I decided to tell you"

I comfort her and it really is okay. She will finish the hat and I'll put it up later but I am happy because it is the thought that counts. Now we have this adorable cool story too!

Thanks for reading everyone and just think of the odds here. 52 people for the marvel exchange in Australia and my wife's matched with ME at the same address of all people ahah.

Feel free to let her know how awesome she is anyway and to not be bummed for me because I have such an axing wife and am the luckiest man in the world!