{"id":1757189,"date":"2022-11-30T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757189"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:32:35","slug":"dont-make-me-throw-away-your-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dont-make-me-throw-away-your-christmas-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Make Me Throw Away Your Christmas Card"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdont-make-me-throw-away-your-christmas-card%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=1757189&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>We probably don\u2019t know each other so I\u2019m not expecting to receive a Christmas greeting card. But if you planned on sending one anyway, be sure, at minimum, to make it out to me and sign your name in handwriting. Otherwise it\u2019s immediately going in the trash.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not joking. Unsigned, non-personalized greeting cards are as meaningful to me as a mailed offer for new auto insurance. I don\u2019t own a car and the paper waste is offensive.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not one of those miserable liberals <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/22\/this-christmas-season-dont-allow-liberals-to-make-you-miserable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who hates Christmas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everything else that\u2019s pleasant<\/a>. Christmas is truly my favorite time of year. And each season, I go to Georgetown in Washington, D.C., to buy very cute, very expensive holiday greeting cards and decorative stickers that I send to family, friends, and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>And each one that I send is filled out with a handwritten note, custom to each individual recipient. It takes an evening or two for me to complete the two dozen or so cards, but it\u2019s fun. I like thinking about each person who will receive a card, and what makes them special to me. For the person who receives the card, I want him to know he was on my mind and that no one else got this same message that he\u2019s reading, because it\u2019s specifically about him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not nearly as much trouble as corralling a family with young children for a professional seasonal photo. People who do that are built different. But if that\u2019s your preference, be sure to send those cards out with handwritten notes, too. Seriously \u2014 what could be more self-serving than giving a bunch of people a photo of your own family?<\/p>\n<p><em>Cute kids but did we get this in the mail just so that we could admire you or did you think about us at all?!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The same is true for gifts. Nothing says you couldn\u2019t care less than a gift card to Amazon or a big box store. Gift cards in general are fairly lazy with the exception of specific restaurants or boutique and novelty outlets a person is known to love. <\/p>\n<p>The best kind of gift is the kind that shows you were listening when someone professed a longing or affinity for a certain item, whether it\u2019s kitchenware, clothing, or some other indulgence.<\/p>\n<p>A gift card says, \u201cHere, I felt obligated to give you something.\u201d A real gift that reflects awareness of a person\u2019s tastes, preferences, and enjoyments says, \u201cI was paying attention, even when you were just thinking out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, greeting cards mailed without personalized messages say, \u201cTell me how festive I am for doing this and by the way, isn\u2019t my family adorable?\u201d Cards with tailored notes say, \u201cYou\u2019re special and well worth my time, even during the busy holidays.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Yes, it takes some effort. That\u2019s what makes it meaningful. Personalize your greeting cards.<\/p>\n<p>   Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greeting cards mailed out without personalized messages say, &#8216;Tell me how festive I am for doing this and by the way, isn&#8217;t my family adorable?&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1757192,"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-1757189","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\/1757189","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}