The Christmas Card Dilemma
One big holiday stressor for a lot of people is sending Christmas cards.
Every year, the Christmas cards we receive get more and more beautiful. People get professional pictures taken for their cards, and spend hundreds of dollars to have them printed on beautiful card stock.
Although we can feel a lot of pressure to send a fabulous Christmas card, there's always the option of doing something more simple, or not sending Christmas cards at all.
Or, you could opt to send a New Year's or Valentine's Day card instead.
To help you alleviate stress today, make a decision about whether or not to send Christmas cards. Then, stick with that decision.
If you plan to send a card, start working on putting it together right now so you're not leaving it until the last minute.
You might even want to start addressing and stuffing envelopes while you're watching television.
If you don't plan on sending a card, think about other ways you might connect with others during the holidays.
Often, a phone call, or a personalized letter means a lot more than a mass-produced card.
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This is good food for thought. I’ve always loved designing a pretty Christmas card, and even though I take the photos myself to keep costs down, it still ends up costing an arm and a leg! I might make just a few cards this year to send to family, and use my photo to create a “virtual” card for friends.
If you enjoy making the cards, keep doing it! I know it stresses a lot of people out, though. I like your idea of re-using the photo in a virtual card.
Every year my husband and I have pictures done at our local pet store with our dog Toby. We use these pictures for our Christmas cards each year. The problem I keep having is that the store sets up the picture sessions for like the second.week in December and so we are not getting them until like the week before Christmas and by that point I am on overload so the cards don’t get sent out. I don’t like sending them out after New Years when they say Merry Christmas on them.
A couple of weeks ago I found last years cards. As I sat there looking at them I realized that my husband and I had not changed much at all over the past year and Toby looks the same as well. There is no year on the front of the card either. The only give away is the date on the back of the card from the printing process.
So here is what I am going to do. I am going to get some Christmas printed scrap booking paper and cover the backs with it.. Then I am going to stamp a Christmas saying on some plain paper to add to it and add a short personal note to them and TaDa 2015 Christmas cards all ready to go be for Thanksgiving. Of course this will only work because there aren’t any children in the picture but not everyone has children or even a dog and there are many many years that unless there is a major event in your life you do not appear to change much from year to year.
I love it! Maybe that’s something you could do every year!