For the past twenty three years I have sent out at least 150 Christmas cards each season. Most have always included a picture of our children and many times the four of us. Of course, they were only sent to close family and friends as I am a firm believer that business associates and casual acquaintances do not want to see your beautiful, smiling family. Think of all the money that has been spent reproducing these treasured family photos to have someone say "Do you know who these people are"?
I, for one, delight in getting a picture each year from my special peeps. I am even so scary that I save them when I am certainly not a saver. I even love to read the Christmas letters which have gotten a totally bad rap through the years. Until a year ago I was one of the ones you got one from. Patting myself on the back here as I always worked to make mine entertaining. They were not a listing of accomplishments or monetary gains. Just a synopsis of our year good and bad.
In this year of 2010 one child is married with a home and life of his own, the other, our baby, is an employed college grad. They will always be ours but is it time to leave them out of the picture and a summary of our lives? Plus, more than half of those on my Christmas card list are my friends on Facebook and as a communications junkie I have shared the past year with all of them through this amazing medium.
The conundrum here is do I save the $300 associated with producing Christmas cards, letters and pictures? Do I only send them to business associates, the elderly and those not on FB? What will they think if they don't get the picture or letter they have received for the past twenty plus years? How will my life change when on December 26th I will not wake up, run to the Hallmark store to get cards at 50% off as I've done for years? And, what picture will I put in my decades old album of Christmas family photos?
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