Dec 30, 2008
The Daily Poverty Post.
You are looking at a Bossy family Christmas card from 2006.
Every year it was the same thing: Bossy would assemble twelve month’s worth of photographs depicting various events and she would crop them and size them and then create a collage and size it to fit a post card and then she’d make a stack of copies at Kinkos and lick one hundred stamps and address the back of the card by hand and include meaningful personal messages,
and now Bossy has a blog.
Bossy is depressed she didn’t send out Christmas cards this year, but then she remembers the price of stamps and multiplies that by the number of people who should receive cards divided by the people who threw Bossy off their card list because they haven’t received one. Bossy figures she saved over $30 this year by sitting on her hands. In other news she saved $30 by not sending out Christmas post cards.
Sitting on her hands! Silly Bossy! Yesterday Bossy was meh but today she is giddy! It’s amazing what 45 whole minutes of sleep a night will do to refresh a person!
Anyway. Consider this blog post Bossy’s official holiday card, where holiday equals Holy Day is it over yet?
It’s ALMOST over. And, all those holiday greetings? Back atcha.
I’m still Meh today. Here is hoping your day goes by quickly!
P.S. I’m green about the 45 minutes of sleep.
It is really hard to justify sending out all that paper when online greetings are so effective and free. Even me, Ms. Just-Say-No-To-Poverty sees the point in this. Having said that, I did cards this year. But I’m thinking . . . thinking . . . thinking . . . of not doing them anymore.
Good news for a procrastinator like me – Ephiphany (the last of the Twelve Days of Christmas) is January 6 – I think it’s suppose to be the day when some of those politicians (the three kings) showed up.
So…I send cards out to those who have sent me cards – they’re usually people who are moved quite a distance away. The rest of them who are closer and I see more often… well, I try to be good to them for the rest of the year. For instance, there’s a group I make cookies for during the year… that’s their holiday card & I think it is better appreciated. A smile and a kind word doesn’t cost much.
We didn’t send them out this year either. It is sort of depressing. Hmm…maybe post card Christmas cards next year. Cheaper postage by half.
I don’t send Christmas cards, either. I get maybe three from my friends. It’s probably because we are all twentysomething and send Christmas greetings by text message, Myspace, or Facebook wall instead.
It is okay not to send out cards… I did it because we decided not to do a bunch of presents. We wanted to do our part to make sure the economy tanks because we don’t spend money on elaborate gifts. YAY ME!
No christmas cards + fake tree + no holiday vacation + ham ($11) instead of Prime Rib ($40) + sledding-as-entertainment instead of going to {insert expensive outing here} = Christmas is p.a.i.d. for with no new debt. Yehaw!
I dont send cards either. I figure if you don’t already keep up with me via email, my personal blog or see me on a weekly basis, do you really care to read my “annual yearly re-cap letter” ??
Don’t feel bad!
Received less than half a dozen cards in the mail this year.
One was sent from a relative who is going bankrupt & loosing their home. Maybe I should suggest they join this party !
For several years now, I have emailed our “card.” Usually a collage of the year and people seem to really appreciate it. This year, I sent a cute little “smilebox” card that featured a simple slideshow with music- and the best part… both options are competely FREE and take about 10 minutes from start to finish.
It is both CHEAP and FABULOUS to not send out holiday cards. I heartily approve of your slackiness – but then, I ALWAYS approve of one’s slacking.
Can I still count it as saving money if sending out holiday cards is something I’ve never, ever, ever done?
Besides, I read some article where that said we should all send out holiday ecards- to be planet-friendly and what not.
Hubby works for Hallmark.
SEND THOSE CARDS!
I BEG your pardon? Did you or did you not receive a card from me this year DESPITE the fact that you had already told me you wouldn’t be sending any? I DEMAND a retraction!
If doctors have to bill electronically (well, we don’t have to, but it’s cheaper, probably, then shouldn’t cards all be electronic, too? It follows.
While I’m certainly glad that you saved money by not sending out those cards, I have to confess that I’m in love with that card, and I will be sending out ones similar to announce the wedding of me and that card.
We recevied far fewer in the mail this year. In years past we have produced this hilarious family newsletter that’s kind of a rip-off of The Onion… but the muse hasn’t yet struck my hubby, who is the main writer. I do like the post card idea though – a good way for me to use that giant box of those printable ones that I have no idea why I bought 18 months ago.