Card Types - Results

Thanks to all who voted. The results were 4 votes for traditional seasonal cards, 3 votes for handmade cards, and 2 votes for photo cards. No one voted for my favorite - skip the card, send the newsletter. While I am a big fan of all interesting cards, especially handmade ones, I'd rather have the newsletter. DH and I have lived all over the world and have friends scattered across the globe. Christmas is often the only time when we here from some of our friends. I love the chatty newsletter telling me what someone's been up to. It's even better if it contains pictures, especially pictures of the adults and not just the kids.

Besides the totally preprinted cards, my other pet peeve is photo cards that only ever contain pictures of the kids. I appreciate the argument that only the kids are significantly changing from year to year, but the adults are generally the ones with whom I am friends, and I'd like to see a picture of them every couple of years too. My favorite photo card this year was one of DH's cousin's family taken while riding a flume at the amusement park. It made me wish it were summer already.

So, you might ask, what does C do for her cards? Well, for most of the years we've been married, we've sent out traditional cards with newsletters. Sometimes the newsletters have been incredibly brief - like the year in San Diego where I managed in 10 pt type to fit all of our news on the front of a quarter sheet of paper. In 2004, I switched to making cards (plus newsletters). This year, we did photo cards with a newsletter. Our photo cards had 3 photos - 1 of each of the girls plus a family shot. It's the best picture of me I've seen since our wedding.

What did you do this year? What was the favorite card you received?

Card Types

I have lunch at work with the same group of friends just about every day I'm there. We often have lively discussions, about a wide range of topics. We're an opinionated bunch.

One of the hot topics last year around this time was on Christmas and seasonal holiday cards. Some of us preferred more traditional cards, others photo cards, and others combinations. I have strong preferences on this.

Before I give you my opinion, I thought I'd ask for yours. I've set up a poll in my sidebar. I've made it an exclusive choice, so pick the kind you like the most. I won't hold you to it, I promise. Please leave me a comment about your choice, if you'd like.

What I hate most are the ones that are commercially printed (what I labelled "pre-printed" in the poll) where people (not businesses) have also had their names pre-printed and include nothing personal at all in them - not even a signature. Why bother?