New Directions

[mirtlemist]

A friend just sent me an email asking for our address so she could send a card. This friend has been in my house numerous times but never felt the need to actually notice where I live until now.

I didn't bust her chops, just laughed and complied. It did, however, smack me over the head with one of the pitfalls of technology we'd already noticed, and

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[jennifer_d_g]

I admit, I'm not a card sender and I don't receive many of them either. But my mom, who still keeps up with the folks from my early childhood, gets tons of cards every year and I enjoy reading about where everyone is and what they're doing.

[mirtlemist]

One of my friends actually makes all of her cards by hand! She starts right after the holidays and works on them all year long. I just find that so amazing. Every one is a work of art and a gift in itself.

[mirtlemist]

We used to get a fair number of those, too, but I guess the economy has taken its toll there as well. Only two so far: one from the Salvation Army and one from our dentist (does that count?) He also sent a nifty little pocket calendar. The better to schedule appointments, I guess :)

[barbarabaker]

When I was a kid all the cards my family received were displayed on the side of the staircase in the living room. I always loved looking at them. I still like to get cards, and I send them too. An e-card just isn't the same. It's not even close.

[mirtlemist]

I can just picture a cascade of cards on the staircase. The nice thing about the real ones is that you can hang onto the prettiest or most touching and re-read them, or even make something. My sister decoupages and has made some really lovely things from some of them.

[ophelialaughs]

There's not much I enjoy about Christmas, but cards I do enjoy. I'm usually late sending them out though. And this year I've gotten a few photoprint fake cards, collages of bad cellphone pics built and sent via places like Shutterfly and Photoworks. I know it's the thought that counts, but I think I do not like these, Sam-I-Am...

[mirtlemist]

One of spouse's nephews has come up with a variation on sending cards that is kind of cool. He and his wife take pictures all year round and then have calendars made for everyone for the following year of their 12 best. One year they did an 'oldies' theme of family members when they were kids. Makes me wish we'd thought of that :)

[ophelialaughs]

That's ok provided only one relative with good taste does it. I'd really just as leave use a bank calendar as the kind of photos some of these people are posting online. And even if I liked them, there are only three of us, so a couple-three calendars is plenty, lol.

[mirtlemist]

That's so true about good taste! I can only take so many photos of me with my finger up my nose :p