Holiday card update

26 November 2012

As I posted on Halloween, I’m working really hard to make the sending of holiday cards easy this year. I’m happy to report that I’m succeeding!!

I used minted.com to order some lovely, personalized cards. The cards I’m sending my business contacts have my name and business name printed on them. I selected flat cards with a printed back. That leaves me just a little space to hand write a message, which has reduced the time I’m spending on each card.

I ordered stamps from the postal service’s website, usps.com and they were delivered to my house. After spending a little time working on my card list and printing out labels, I put the labels on the envelopes. My minted order included special wrap-around return address labels that come 13 to a sheet, so I set a goal of completing 13 cards per day.

I started working on this a week or 10 days ago and I just put aside my completed cards. (I didn’t want to be the freak who sends out holiday cards before Thanksgiving.)

Today, I mailed over 70 business-related cards and the first 20 of our personal cards. Since I did them just a few at a time, it felt effortless.

For our personal cards, we ordered different flat cards, with our first names printed on the front. We left the back blank so I can easily jot a greeting. Also super easy. For the personal cards, I’ve decided to hand write the addresses. And I’m doing ten at a time. It’s still November and the cards have a new year’s greeting on them, so I know I’ll have no trouble getting them out in time.

For me the key to making this easy was that I chose cards with limited room to write and with my name pre-printed. I started early. And I set incremental goals. Ten or 13 cards in a session are very easy to do, especially when you’re playing old TV shows on Netflix at the same time.

It’s not too late for you to let holiday cards be easy!

Tagged with: cards, ease, holidays