The conversation occurs every year now, as our mailbox fills up
starting in late November and continuing for a month or more: Should we do
Christmas cards? Heidi is on the fence on this one, but she mostly wouldn’t
mind seeing that tradition slowly fade away. She said Facebook takes care of
the need for Christmas cards, and hers is a compelling argument. Our kids, of
course, have a vague concept of “snail mail” -- with the general feeling that it
is something “old people” use and check. They kind of view snail mail the way we view rotary dial phones, as an interesting relic from the past that some people actually still use for some odd reason. Again, they are not far from the real
truth there.
I’m old school (you could take the “school” out of that, of course)
when it comes to this, and I hold steady to the idea of Christmas cards –
mostly because I like to receive and generate mail. So the above pictured
Christmas card may be coming to a mailbox (actual mailbox, not inbox) near you
in the next day or two. Some of my old friends and acquaintances are not on
Facebook, or are not “Facebook friends” with Heidi, and thus do not get to see
photos of our family. The Christmas card acts as the once-a-year update in some
cases, sad as that is to report. And, as I explained to our kids over dinner
last night (
before their attention
clearly drifted as I rambled on, which I often do), even “younger” folks
(you know, recent alums in their 20s and 30s) like to use the traditional
Christmas card as a way to show off their beautiful babies or toddlers. Those “baby’s
first Christmas” photos are indeed precious and only come around once in a
lifetime. So yeah. If you are still sending us Christmas cards, keep ‘em
coming. At least one old guy likes to check and open the mail.
1 comment:
In theory I agree with you Pete. The only reason I do not send them out is the stinkin post office keeps raising the price of stamps. And cards aren't cheap anymore either, the whole thing for 50 people can cost far more than $60 or $70 now. And that is keeping things small, then I have to figure out which of the 300 friends I have will get one of the prized 50 cards. The whole thing used to be easier when stamps were $.25 and cards were less than $.20 a card in a box you could buy.
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