Comments on: Organizing Your Way to a Simple Christmas: Christmas Cards

By: Overcoming Busy » Start Overcoming Busy Right Now – The Holiday Edition 1

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:31:53 +0000

[...] addressing them. Get them out and out of your way! Mandi at Organizing Your Way has some great Christmas card tips to help [...]

By: rachinee

rachinee — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:27:46 +0000

hi mandi! i am a christmas card (with pictures and short updates or newsletters) junkie! i have sent them out every year that I can remember giving myself ONE “bye” year before I turned 30 that I didn’t send anything out! Some years the cards are out by Tgiving, sometimes they are New Year’s cards and one year, when I had a newborn in Dec, everyone got Valentine’s pictures and updates from us!

My most FUN organizing tip for you and your readers is I have a Christmas card scrapbook that I aim to FINISH by January 31st each year (actually I have 3 thick ones now!!). In January, I cut out the return address labels and put them in my roladex and throw away the rest of the envelope. I put EVERY picture in the scrapbook and the cards and letters in a ‘pocket’ with the YEAR decorated on it. These albums are part of my decor on the coffee table at Christmastime each year and guests love looking through them and finding themselves year after year after year.

I look forward to getting one from you this year!
love, rachinee

By: Kimberly Tidwell

Kimberly Tidwell — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:09:24 +0000

I love sending Christmas cards with our most recent family picture. The most difficult part of the process is deciding which card I think will be the most uplifting for my receivers. I love several of the ideas about being so organized with it…
Thank you very much for the links..I don’t have them stored this way, only on paper.

By: Courtney

Courtney — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:03:13 +0000

One tip that makes my Christmas cards faster is to print my mail merged labels on clear mailing labels. My husband puts on the address label, return address label and the stamp while I write the holiday message on the card. Super fast and fun! We get about 60 cards done in an hour each year.

I did wonder though if you have any helpful tips for writing that Christmas letter!

By: Nancy Thornton

Nancy Thornton — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:55:10 +0000

The day after Thanksgiving I print out our mail merged labels and apply to all of the envelopes. I then write a short note, add pictures and seal. Once done, I stamp using Stamps.com and wait for December 1st to mail.

Throughout the year I have a spreadsheet that I keep updated with names and addresses to ensure everything is correct.
Nancy Thornton´s last blog ..Kodak is giving away $15.00 Gift codes!

By: Mandi Ehman

Mandi Ehman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:45:23 +0000

Oh, that would be stressful! I’m big on not doing something just because others expect you to, so I’m glad you were able to stop and just focus on sending cards to close friends and family!

By: Mandi Ehman

Mandi Ehman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:42:24 +0000

I’ve always wanted to hand make Christmas cards, Bekki — I’d love to see yours when you’re done!

By: Mandi Ehman

Mandi Ehman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:25:34 +0000

Oh, me too. If I don’t force myself to make a decision, that definitely becomes the thing that causes the most stress!

By: Mandi Ehman

Mandi Ehman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:24:54 +0000

I think this is such a cute idea, Brooke! I’ve received Thanksgiving cards before too, which I thought was a good idea as well!

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:13:33 +0000

Thanks for getting me motivated to start planning for christmas.