This year is the first in ten years that I will not be mailing Christmas Cards. Normally I send cards out to friends and family, I put the latest pictures of the boys in them, and to closer family members, like my grandpa, I also write a letter and insert that in the card.
This year, due to Micahs job situation - last paycheck he had 54.7 hours instead of 80, which is a lot of lost hours to miss out on when he is the only one in our family with a job. I simply can't afford to buy the cards, - postage last year to send out cards was close to 40$. And, in my opinion, there is not point in sending out christmas cards if I don't put pictures in them, but even if I take my own photos, it still costs a mint to print them all. So. Yeah. No Christmas cards this year, and it makes me sad, but paying my mortgage, putting food into the mouths of my children, it's more important to me that sending cards that everyone will put up for a few days then toss in the trash!
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1 comments:
This is my first year not sending out cards too. I feel bad but I know a lot of my friends & family are in the same boat.I will, of course, send a card to my parents and maybe one or two VERY close friends. But that's it.
I'm wondering if I should email them and tell them ahead of time, so they don't feel rooked if they send me one and I don't reciprocate. Any thoughts?
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