All right. This is tres embarrassing my bloggy friends. Tres.
I am a terrible person. Truly. Every year I buy holiday cards, and every year they gather dust under my bed. I buy get well soon and sympathy cards and never get it together enough to get them stamped and in the mail. Many thank you notes collect dust and never make it to their recipient. I am not proud of any of this. Normally I would be way too mortified about this to ever admit it publicly. Until recently, I was sure I was alone in my horribleness. Then, I read Half Baked by Alexa Stevenson, author of the blog, Flotsam. Alexa’s as bad as I am, so she’s given me the courage to come out, so to speak. Surely there are others out there like us.
Anyway, this is the year. I resolve to turn over a new leaf. This year, I will send out holiday cards. Shutterfly’s giving me the perfect push with their 50 free holiday cards campaign. Now, decisions, decisions. Maybe I'll go with the Christmas cards. Of course the Holiday Photo Cards are a wonderful option. Maybe, just maybe, I'll get really ambitious and go for the Holiday Story Cards. Perhaps I could invent a nice, socially acceptable explanation as to why I haven't sent holiday cards in years. That could be a nice touch.
Anyway, thanks to Shutterfly, I'm looking forward to changing my ways and sending out our best cards ever. Thanks Shutterfly!
Tell me, are you a closet correspondence failure too?
I have 1 husband and 4 kids, 28, 20, 11 and 9...I'll be doing the mom thing forever, hence 4evermom.
7 comments:
I quit sending out Christmas cards a few years ago. I'd rather take that money and donate it to a charity. It's nice to get them, though! :D
I quit for just that reason. i always bought the cards and never gave them or sent them out. So i just stopped. Now i send emails to those i can and call the ones i cant.
I have the Christmas cards from the last two years gathered neatly together in my office. Yes, the ones we received, but also the ones I meant to send. What a colossal waste of money! I keep thinking I'll send them out together but that would mean outing myself to everyone I love and I'm not sure I'm up to that.
What's to be ashamed of? I don't make and send my cards every year (why buy cards when I can NOT make them?).
The bright side is that we're sending a message to the US Postal system that we're not going to take postage increases lying down...
I guess I am old school because I have always sent out holiday cards. In fact, there are a couple people on my card list that I have not seen in decades, but they still get a card. Even a couple of my mom's friends get a card from me. Call me lame or old fashioned...I will take either one.
I am actually pretty good about Christmas cards and thank you cards. It is kinda fun in a weird way. So few people actually send snail mail anymore and I miss it.
I've even gone so far as writing in a whole box of thank you cards,addressing them, and then I'll find them 2 years later sitting in the box. Oops! I manage Christmas cards once every 3 years or so, if I'm lucky.
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