What is the best low-tech protocol to simulate drawing names out of a hat and ensure secrecy?

Question

Each year at Thanksgiving, my family has drawn names out of a hat to determine who they\'ll be a \"Secret Santa\" for the Christmas gift exchange. It\'s important to our fam

Answer 1

When we did exchange gifts this year, I suggested http://www.secretsanta.com. My sister was in charge and she didn't have an internet connection at the time so it wasn't used.

If I remember correctly, it can keep track of previous years and can make exclusions so that people from the same family don't get each over.