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Holiday Cards
| Fri, 11-26-2004 - 10:47am |
When are you going to be sending out your holiday cards?
Have you been cutting back on the list of people you mail them to?
Do you have a cost-saving method this year you are using regarding your cards?
What is a reasonable amount of money to spend on a box of cards?
Do you put anything in with your cards like notes, pictures, money?

I usually send mine out today but didn't get to it....I was waiting until I got Luke's 1 year old pictures done (I've procrastinated on that but I *really* need to get it done or he will be way past 1 year and pictures to me are priceless...I at least need the yearly professional ones done!!!).
I think I'm just going to have to send them out though as I don't know if I will get it done in time...I have a coupon for the 1 hour place but then I got a better coupon for Sears, so I think I'm going to go with Sears and just send them out without it (I would imagine in the rush for people doing Christmas pictures, I won't get them back quickly!).
Becky
CL of 4th, 5th & 6th grade Scoliosis
My cards are ready to go, I just need to purchase some Christmas stamps to go on the envelopes.
Christmas cards are one area that I splurge on. I usually stamp my cards, but this year I made a photo collage and printed it out postcard size on photo paper to make some really nice cards. The photo paper was a little pricey, but I really like to personalize my Christmas cards and this way I was able to include a lot of pictures in a 4x6 space.
I include a family letter to let everyone know what we are doing and some interesting things that have happened to us over the year. I have drastically reduced the number of people that I send cards to. I used to mail out about 60 cards, now I only send out about 35. DH has a big family and this is the only time of year that we have contact with some of them.
Windy
When are you going to be sending out your holiday cards?
Probably a week before Christmas because I have very few to send and mostly in-state.
Have you been cutting back on the list of people you mail them to?
No, it has remained about the same, but it is not a long list.
Do you have a cost-saving method this year you are using regarding your cards?
Ummm.....I still have leftovers from prior years hidden in the desk, so I am going to send out those. I doubt a lot of people will remember them from years ago.
What is a reasonable amount of money to spend on a box of cards?
A One dollar box is fine from the dollar store. I do like really fancy cards, but this year I'm sending out whatever I still have leftover in the house. I don't want to spend more than $1.50 on card, but it depends on the cards.
Do you put anything in with your cards like notes, pictures, money?
Sometimes I write a note in the card.....I was thinking of computer printing some old holiday pictures this year and sending those with the cards for a laugh.
Littlesbigs
I'm only sending out one card this year to my good friend who is in the military and won't be here for the Holidays, I'm going to splurge and get him a nice Hallmark one and include a personal message as well.
Other than that my circle of friends and family are all in my area so I won't be sending out holiday cards to everyone in my address book this year :o)~
I sent my cards yesterday. I counted 38. Now all I have to do is send the oneies and twosie for people I forgot or people who send me cards that I wasn't expecting to get cards from. That is about the same number as last year.
I do the family photo card and a letter. The paper and envelopes for the letter were about $20 and the photo cards ran about $75. We had to get our picture taken for DH's job and just decided to go ahead and order the photo cards so it would be done with.
Next year I'll go to Sears or Wal-Mart and have the photo cards done much cheaper.
Last year it was just as expensive for us to do it ourselves and the photo cards weren't nearly as nice. I guess we just don't have the right printer.
I will also stock up on the paper and envelopes for the family letter at this year's after Christmas sales. I didn't do it last year because I knew we would be moving and I know with 95% certainty tha we will stay here another year so I'll just store everything.
Hope everyone has a bright Holiday season.
Kellie