Holiday cards
Just a few random thoughts about holiday cards:
- You should make the effort to send them.
- If you don't send them, don't offer some lame justification like "I'm too busy" or "every year I mean to send them".
- Holiday cards are small gifts.
- Small gifts may or may not be reciprocated.
- Gifts should be special, not perfunctory.
- Gifts should have a personal touch.
- Gifts should not be all about the giver(s).
- Have a few people on your list whom you may never see or speak to again for the rest of your life.
- Ballpoint? Really?
Labels: composition fatigue, if only they would listen to MWR
posted at 11:12 AM
5 Comments:
Very good points. I have no good excuse for not sending cards this year. I really should get off my duff and just go get some and mail them out shouldn't I.
As an aside, I hate corporate holiday cards. They seem so sterile.
I never send cards to people in town that I see during the year. They get invites to my place or I meet them for holiday drinks/events. Cards are reserved for out-of-towners who I know actually enjoy a card, and won't feel obligated to send me one. Of course, my spiritual and environmental principles figure into this policy.
After many years of watching the contortions a company goes through to send holiday cards, they seem to me to be a total waste of funds, time and effort.
And keep sending them to people even if that's your only means of communication. Although Mavis and I are related, we did not know each other growing up and might never have met had not our parents kept in touch for nearly 30 years solely through Christmas cards.
I would love to be able to write more personal messages on the cards (as per a card I received this week from an old college roommate, completely hand-written), but with a list of 100 and three children, two of whom are more-or-less constantly underfoot, it's just not realistic.
And I'll be sure to use a fountain pen on yours, M. ;)
And now, from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/technology/24cards.html?th&emc=th
Perfunctory and intangible . . . what a nice way to say "I can't be bothered."
Really, though, a few e-cards are O.K., but I don't really relish being spammed by my friends.
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