Send those holiday cards

The case for mailing holiday greetings

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of my Heart Radio.
Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to send those holiday cards. Yes, it
takes time and effort to mail real cards with handwritten notes,

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but this is honestly one of the best investments of
time you can make. I love receiving holiday cards. It's
fun to see people smiling kids and cute pets and
see how much everyone has grown since last year. I'm
also a big holiday card sender. We book family photos
sometime in the fall and make our Shutterfly cards with

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those pictures. I know a lot of people just do
the postcard style photo cards, but we do ones that
open and have space to write a note, which I
do for everyone I send a card to. Why Well,
First of all, it's the compiling and addressing of cards
that takes the most time. By the time you're already
doing that, it doesn't take much more time. I mean

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literally just six sconds per card to write something like
hey Dave, so great to see you in the family
this summer, wishing you all the best for a happy
holiday season and a joyous If you're sending sixty cards,
this is an extra hour to an hour and a half.
If you're sending two hundred cards, it's a maximum of
five hours. Now this isn't nothing, But if you're the

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sort of person who is sending two hundred cards, you
may have someone helping you with the compiling and addressing anyway,
and you know the power of a robust network. This
network is built by treating everyone in it as an
individual that you care about. A handwritten note makes that
clear and almost new time. It's a great touch point.

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It takes a lot less time than meeting each of
those two people for coffee. Your handwritten notes go out
into the world where they do some good things. First,
they remind people that you exist. Second, they generally make
people feel closer to you. I've gotten some really lovely
emails from people who have received my holiday cards and

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appreciated getting a handwritten note. I can't stress enough how
few people bother to do this and how much you
will stand out if you do. This is an incredibly
easy way to strengthen a relationship. But even if you
don't bother with notes, there are upsides to making the
cards and getting them out soon. First, people have your

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mailing address, which means you'll get more cards from people
with cute baby and dog photos. Isn't it great when
the mail isn't just ads and bills? And if you
make a photo card, this will either require you to
take photos or to look through your existing ones. These
are both great ways to spend time. I don't know
anyone who says, geez, I wish I had taken fewer

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photos of my family. There are lots of ways to
save time over the holidays, and we'll cover plenty of
them in upcoming episodes of Before Breakfast, But skipping the
holiday cards are skimping on them amounts to being penny
wise and pound foolish. I promise that your investment of
time here will be paid back to you in the meantime.

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This is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making
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