I have always enjoyed sending and receiving Christmas cards. I feel like it is something special that I can do to be able to connect with friends, family, and even those who I am acquainted with in business. I have connections in all different parts of the world and I don’t always get to stay connected throughout the year. But when it comes to Christmas, I always like to keep everyone up to date by sending a photo Christmas card of me and my family.
A photo card is great because everyone can see what we look like and how much our children have grown, especially those who don’t get to see us in person on a regular basis.
This year I ordered from Shutterfly.com. They had a sale go
ing on over the Black friday weekend for discounts up to 30% plus free shipping. I was able to order 125 photo Christmas cards for only $65.00. Each card wound up being .52 cents each and they come with envelopes with is a plus.
I got my cards in the mail the other day and they came out great! I adress my envelopes by hand, but I am really beginning to think that I need to come up with a labels list next year to make things easier on me.
What do you think about Christmas cards? Do you send them? How many do you send? Do you use photo cards? Do you hand write the addresses or use labels?
Dawn,
I love sending and receiving cards. The entire process gives me such pleasure. I just did mine on Shutterfly yesterday, 75 of them. We have traditions every year, hang the cards we receive and the kids always make us guess the chocolate of the day behind the advent calendar. All good stuff!
Jeannie
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I agree with you, but they can get expensive with postal rates always rising so I limit the # we send to 50.
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Hi Dawn!
I love sending and receiving cards also. It’s a great holiday tradition and I love to keep it going. Over the years my door would fill up with wonderful and even decorative cards. But, the past 2, maybe 3 years the cards have dwindled. We heart photo cards… I only have 1 so far this year and the rest are normal cards, it’s always fun to see what the ratio will be. I love watching our door fill up with decorative cards. I just tape them to the back of our front door as they come. 😉 Actually, I’m reusing Trader Joe’s holiday stickers. hee, hee! works! 😉
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December 18th, 2010 at 5:53 am
It is so true. I just commented on another commenter’s post and mentioned that the business of life seems to get in the way of the whole Christmas card thing. Who has time anymore when everyone connects digitally now-a-days? But I think it is super important. We have family and friends all around the world and it feels good to be able to send them a Christmas card with a recent photo of us.
And we tape our cards across the top of our tv cabinet in the living room. I love looking at them.
Anyway, Merry Christmas sweety!
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Gosh yes! I send cards every year and each time I try to do something unique with them. This year I got some with my kids picture from Tiny Prints.. last year I included a Christmas Poem written by me. It is kinda sad that I don’t receive very many though. LOL!
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Painter Mommy Reply:
December 18th, 2010 at 5:50 am
It is sad that not a lot of people take part in the tradition of sending Christmas cards. Seems like the business of life gets in the way. 🙁
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Hi Dawn! I love sending and receiving cards also. It’s a great holiday tradition and I love to keep it going. Over the years my door would fill up with wonderful and even decorative cards. But, the past 2, maybe 3 years the cards have dwindled. We heart photo cards… I only have 1 so far this year and the rest are normal cards, it’s always fun to see what the ratio will be. I love watching our door fill up with decorative cards. I just tape them to the back of our front door as they come. 😉 Actually, I’m reusing Trader Joe’s holiday stickers. hee, hee! works! 😉
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