Christmas emails
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- 2013/12/29 14:05:03
I think it's becoming a trend to send emails instead of sending Christmas cards all over the world.
I got long emails from my friends in the U.K. and the U.S. this year.
I felt they were too long to read at this time of a year.
They wrote so much in detail about what each family members had done in the passing year, and seemed to send it to all their friends.
I only got a few, but if I'd had many, I could have been fed up with reading them.
It's easy to send just one message, but it's hard to read loads of them!
I kind of do the same as you; I send new years cards to those who are not so close to me.
You are great that you make your own birthday cards to your close friends!!!
They must be very happy to get them and keep them. :-)
I don't like to read it either.
I write new years cards to my students and coworkers, but I don't write to my friends.
I send them emails which says Happy New Year and a short message.
Not writting New Year's card to my closed friends, I send them birthday card, I make them by myself.
That's quite a lot!
That would be because you were a great teacher and get many cards from your former students as well.
I'd like to do away with this onerous (thanks for the new word!) task since I also think it's empty formalities. (Oh, I like this expression!)
Though I still enjoy getting the cards. haha!
Have a wonderful New Year's Day!
I see eye to eye with you over our long-standing practice of exchanging new year's cards.
I've been trying to decrease the number of new year's greeting cards, but still I'm obliged to write around 300 cards every year, which is undoubtedly a laborious task in the midst of busy time when the passing year is closing out.
Honestly speaking, I'm glad to hear from my friends and acquaintances about what they are doing once a year, but when it comes to writing a large number of cards annually, I'd like to evade the onerous task.
Some people are beginning to do away with this practice, saying this is empty formalities.
I have mixed feelings about this custom like you do as well.
Have a nice evening.
Oh, I can't agree with you more; I add some handwritten messages to each card too.
I also write names and addresses by myself, thinking about each friend.
I don't write a lot of cards, though.
I think it's a sort of waste of paper to write friends whom I can easily see in my daily life.
I want this tradition to last, but I have a mixed feeling if I think about the environment.
I quite agree with you in that I don't like reading long printed greetings on festive occasions, because they are mechanical and impersonal.
Take our new year's greeting cards, for example, some people just send us printed greetings without any handwritten messages.
I don't feel like reading them because I don't feel any cordial warmth contained in such messages, which is applicable to e-mail seasonal greetings.
Personally, when it comes to sending new year's cards, I make a point of adding some handwritten messages to printed greetings even though it takes me a huge amount of time in the midst of the busy time towards the end of the passing year.
See you around.