I have recently launched my new website on November 15th 2007. You can check it out at http://www.family-christmas.com/. It is a FREE website that helps families and friends organize their gift exchange online. This year, you don't have to pass around a stack of wish lists or worry about duplicate gifts, unwanted gifts, incorrect sizes, etc.
Each group member will have their own account. Wish lists for children can be administered by parents though the parent's account. Group members have two lists, one private (the BuyList) and one that is seen by everybody else in the group (the WishList). The idea is to have every member of the group create their own "WishList". Then everybody browses the "WishLists" of other group members and when the appropriate gift is found, simply click on "Add to BuyList" next to the gift and nobody else can get that gift. The gift is added to your private list of
gifts to get for others. You simply print your "BuyList" and it makes holiday shopping easy and organized. The cool thing is that the website keeps track of the availability of each gift without the gift owner knowing which gifts people are getting for them. You can even create multiple groups, for example, you could have a family group and a friend group. Additionally, you may create a subgroup. Subgroups may be a couple or a small family within a larger family group, such as "Mom and Dad" or "Tom, Carol & Baby Sue" within the "Smith Family" group.
There are three simple steps to get started:
1. Go to http://www.family-christmas.com/ and "Register" a new group. -you are now the group administrator.
2. Login and send your family and friends invitations to join your group.
3. Start adding gifts to your wish list
Check out this cool tutorial I put on YouTube, it describes the basic usage of the website.
It is pretty cool, here are some screen shots: