5 Holiday Card Shortcuts to Reduce Stress in Your Holidays

While the tradition of sending holiday cards is one of the best ways to spread cheer and keep in touch with loved ones, the work involved in sending so many cards and as busy as we are already, adding this huge task to our holiday to-do list can cause a lot of stress. Here are some great shortcuts for taming the task of card-sending, while keeping the essence of the tradition intact by Elizabeth Scott, M.S. for About.com on Stress Management.

   

Holiday Card Shortcuts

1. Shorten Your List.


2. Send Picture Cards.
   A picture is worth a thousand words so you don't have to write anything on it!


3. Don’t Send A Big Newsy Letter (BNL).
   Yes, many people want to know what your whole year had been like. And yes, for some people, this is the only time they hear the major details of your life. However, with the printing and folding and stuffing and the composition of the Big Newsy Letter itself, the BNL really complicates the holiday card ritual. Omit it.


4. Print Your Address Labels.
   While we’re on the topic of using your computer, you can save a lot of writing time by organizing your addresses and printing them onto labels via your computer.


5. Start Early and Do a Few at a Time.
   Writing cards in small doses makes it much easier to include a personal note that doesn’t look too scrawled or sound too trite, and with each session remaining relatively painless, you might actually look forward to writing to old friends, keeping in touch, and wishing them well.

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A free-stress Holiday is all about getting organized  and being timely!

- the Moms' Buzz

source: www.about.com

Comments

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Amen on the picture cards! What better way to keep friends and family up to date on your growing family. I save our cards from special people from year to year so we can look back at how everyone's grown.