{"id":1743220,"date":"2022-11-18T03:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1743220"},"modified":"2022-11-18T03:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:17:40","slug":"5-reasons-to-bless-your-loved-ones-with-good-old-fashioned-christmas-cards-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-to-bless-your-loved-ones-with-good-old-fashioned-christmas-cards-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons To Bless Your Loved Ones With Good Old-Fashioned Christmas Cards This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-reasons-to-bless-your-loved-ones-with-good-old-fashioned-christmas-cards-this-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1743220&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When I was growing up, my mother received dozens of Christmas cards. She\u2019d incorporate them into the holiday decor by hanging them on a wall in our family room. I remember being eager to see what \u201creal\u201d letters were buried in the stacks of generic catalogs and holiday sale flyers that arrived with each new mail delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I\u2019d come home from school to find new cards of various shapes, sizes, and degrees of simplicity and extravagance added to the card wall. I took great delight in choosing my favorites and re-admiring them \u2014 even helping my mother arrange them so the \u201cbest\u201d ones (typically those festooned with glitter) were at <em>my<\/em> eye level (this was before I fully grasped the selfless spirit of the season).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These days, my mother is lucky to get a handful of snail-mail Christmas cards. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2019\/03\/26\/walmart-cvs-may-cut-greeting-card-space-as-cards-decline\/3243515002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USA Today reported in 2019<\/a> that \u201cmajor retailers, including CVS and Walmart, [were] poised to cut back on\u00a0cards, and greeting card companies have closed\u00a0hundreds of standalone locations\u201d because \u201cmore and more people are using text and email and e-cards, and fewer people are buying cards.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let us not let sit idly by on our screens and let such a beautiful tradition die. Exchanging Christmas cards offers many benefits \u2014 not just to the receiver, but to the soul of the sender as well. Here are five reasons you should send Christmas cards this year.<\/p>\n<p> 1. Handwritten Cards Are More Creative and Memorable\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Most modern people are adept at firing off a text or email in a dash without much thought. But if you\u2019ve taken the time recently to sit down and compose something by hand, you\u2019ve likely noticed that it <em>feels<\/em> different. Your words are more deliberate, perhaps, and your expressions more calculated \u2014 eloquent, even \u2014 as you let them develop in time for your out-of-shape writing hand to keep up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/can-handwriting-make-you-smarter-1459784659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> on several studies showing that \u201csomething about writing things down excites the brain.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/memory-catcher\/201710\/is-it-better-write-hand-or-computer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psychology Today<\/a> noted that the practice increases creativity and \u201cengages your motor skills,\u00a0memory, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If months or years have passed since you last communicated with your Christmas card recipient, an activated memory should surely come in handy. I find when I write letters by hand, I pause often to decide on the perfect phrasing. I also think more about the person I\u2019m writing to \u2014 what we have in common, what I love about the person, what makes him or her special, etc. \u2014 than I do when I\u2019m simply typing up something quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a cathartic feeling to reflect on the beautiful souls God has put in your life, to check in on them, and to express gratitude to them for their goodness. Writing by hand also evokes the elusive \u201cmindfulness\u201d we are always being encouraged to seek, and being mindful of others is what Christmastime is, or should be, all about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Writing out cards doesn\u2019t just activate the brain of the person writing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exchanging Christmas cards offers many benefits \u2014 not just to the receiver, but to the soul of the sender as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":1743223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}