I admit it, I love Christmas cards. In fact, I collect them. Well, I collect VINTAGE Christmas cards and have about 50-60 of them. Thanks to Pinterest, I now have an even bigger collection (spread out over several of my writing personas). I like cards from the 1950s. It was such an innocent era. (Well, we like to think that. The WWII had ended, but Korea was in full swing, and there was the Cold War going on ... but let's think innocent.)
Most of my cards came from yard sales. Usually when daughters were cleaning our their parents homes. They bagged them up and I bought them. (I also have an entire box of assorted cards for every occasion that I got FOR THREE BUCKS!) I love them all!
Every year I hand the last Christmas card I got from my Granddad back in the 1980s. It wasn't an expensive card, but it has his signagure on it and it says "with Love" (sniff).
But so far this year I haven't received one Christmas card. I'm so sad that that tradition seems to be going the way of the doh-doh. I looked forward to the mail every day in December. Now people send virtual cards which, less face it, don't entail much effort at all. Especially when all one has to do is gang a load of email addresses and shoot off one card with one message.
I've got my cards all ready to work on this week, and will feel sad that my wall of cards might only have a couple of it this year.If you like vintage cards, they have reproductions on Amazon. I'll be sending out a few of my vintage cards to a chosen few.
Will you be sending out Christmas cards this year?
If you have the same address you had many, many years ago (back in the writer's newsletter days), I'll send you a card! I was just sending some out today!
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