46. I am thankful for CHRISTMAS CARDS...

Okay, OKAY...I've been away from my blog for a few weeks....I do earnestly repent of this....I have returned.

I'm doing something today, that I've not done for more than 15 years...I'm sending out about 20 Christmas greeting cards. Why just twenty cards, you may ask...and I have a logical, and profound answer:

First, 20 cards came in the discounted box that I bought yesterday at the hospital gift shop. Second, since postage stamps are 46 cents EACH, this endeavor is already going to cost me more than NINE DOLLARS to mail--not to mention the purchase price of these over-priced relics of years gone by, and finally, I won't have the patience to hand-write more than 20 cards--if that many.

There was a time in my life where I would send out at least one hundred (yes 100) Christmas cards every year, if not more than 100. I'd always start addressing them the day after Thanksgiving, and would work almost nonstop on them until I had greeted "everybody."

This year, I am limiting my "greetings" (card-wise, anyway) to only 20....

But I am very thankful for this "relic" from the past....

1 comment:

Bill (cycleguy) said...

Hey Phil! Good to hear from you again! I was beginning to think the chicago mafia had taken care of you or something. My wife and I never sent out cards because of the sheer magnitude of it all. How do you send cards to everyone in the church that you pastor? you don't. :) It is good to have you back. Hope you are doing well.