I do, mainly because I don’t have too many (a dozen or so) and I’ve made a tradition of sending my signature self-mailers to family and friends. I compose mine in MS Word, print on card stock and mail out.
I do and have for years. I enjoy the crafting part, and choosing images and phrases. Don’t really care if I ever get a card back, that’s totally not the point. I send probably a dozen internationally, friends I’ve met on my travels, etc. with a total of over 65 cards most years.
Sadly I came from a very disordered home life, not anything to be nostalgic about. Fond recalls from when young, doesn’t happen in all families.
So, I just made up what suited me, I guess. Anyway, I digitally collect images etc, through the year, I have a printer and am not afraid to use it. I am often thanked by the recipients and told they look forward to it.
I know it’s backward, dying out, and almost anti digital, and it’s expensive postage too. But I don’t care, I like doing it.
This year, big conundrum…postal strike. What to do? It’s hard to believe they won’t fix this before Christmas. Do I make all the cards and wait? I’m leaning toward making the few I can hand deliver to neighbours and folks I know I’ll see. Or… I could skip it this year, hubs health isn’t good, we’re busy with drs visits etc.
Much like the postal strike, I’m still up in the air about it all.
We are quite literally buried under snow at the moment and that may prove to be sufficiently ‘Christmasy’ for the time being.
I enclose a newsletter in my cards (I just sent them out yesterday, in fact).
Some of my friends go all-out on clever constructions with embedded photos and the like, made in the form of newspapers, or company financial reports, or whatever. I’m lucky I have the time to write the damned newsletter.
My grad school advisor always wrote out each individual Christmas card “letter” by hand. He thought my using a computer-generated newsletter was just lazy.