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The card, nice.
The newsletter could easily be viewed as obnoxious and a bit pretentious.
I STRONGLY DISAGREE!
If someone is sending out many Holiday Cards with just a simple signature, I throw them out in the trash. But I love a letter enclosed and will read it no matter how long it is if I liked the person or were close at one time. I expect the letter to only say the good things but would be amused if they told some bad luck stories too.
I appreciate receiving cards and newsletters from people. If the newsletter is overly long and/or seems to be thinly disguised bragging, I just read it quickly and figure no harm is done. For the most part I am very interested in what people have been doing.
However, I have not sent out any Christmas cards for several years, and am unlikely to ever again. With the advent of email, social media, and unlimited national-wide long distance phoning 24/7, it just seems like too much work.
However, I do thank people for their cards and newsletters (by email or phone call).
I think social media is a great substitute for the yearly Christmas card and letter. E cards are way more fun too. My favorite card by far this year is a hand made one by one of my shorties apologizing for being a "monster" and thanking us for everything we do for them. Priceless.
When you are newly retired, like me, you might like to think about friends and relatives from the past that you just don't talk to anymore. In most cases there was no blow up, but instead we just drifted apart.
So I decided to try to reconnect and developed a nice letter that we sent to everyone, along with a Christmas card. I wrote a personal note to everyone on the card and included a report on what my wife and I have been doing this year in a copied letter. I sent it to about 100 people. About 3/4 of them we did not talk to last year for some reason but we had been close to at one point.
Do you send a holiday card and letter to old friends you have lost touch with? If you got such a card from an old friend you had not talked to for years, how would you respond?
I would love it! I am not a fan of the cards with just a signature. I love the newsletters or updates. I really enjoy seeing things people are doing. Particularly travel or new interests. I don't see them as bragging. To me their activities make them more interesting people.
If someone is sending out many Holiday Cards with just a simple signature, I throw them out in the trash. But I love a letter enclosed and will read it no matter how long it is if I liked the person or were close at one time. I expect the letter to only say the good things but would be amused if they told some bad luck stories too.
My letter is three paragraphs.
That seems to go along with your postings here. Where is the difference between a card and a rerun of 2013 in three paragraphs included in a card?
Id read a short note; 3 paragraphs? Not likely. Definitely wouldnt respond with a card or mail. Havent put a stamp on an envelope for years. Id assume the letter was the same windy note that was send in all of your other cards, whether you sent 5 or 500.
Ive always wondered about people who send those long mini -bios in their cards. What makes them think people are that interested in your life, other than people you are already close to, who already know everything.
Cynical maybe, just seems a bit pretentious.
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I will read a hand written annual letter. Forget sending me long emails with your political opinion however.
