Do you still hand write letters and cards?

Ronni

Ronni

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I am a prolific email writer because it's quick and I can reach a group of people all at once. I routinely send out emails for family events, get togethers etc., so that everyone involved can see whatever back and forth is needed and I don't have to repeat the same information over and over again to each individual.

I do however write thank you notes and other more significant correspondence by hand. I have a small, tasteful assortment of stationary, cards etc.,and some personalized notepaper. I will never entirely let go of that particular social grace!

I also send each of my grandchildren a handwritten card for birthdays and all other seasonal events. They LOVE getting mail!
 

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I still hand write and send out Christmas cards in the mail every year, and get them back in return. If someone sends me a gift, I will thank them usually with a phone call. I also send birthday cards and sympathy cards in the regular mail.
 
Do you still hand write letters and cards?

Like with stamps, and envelopes, and trudging to the post office?

I may poop in an outhouse, and draw water from a well, but, the line is drawn at reverting to snail mail

yes, I have no grace
 

Yes always. I send snail mail cards all the time. And receive them in return. A lot of people I know are in their eighties and technologically challenged. With younger friends and family members I send email cards and things, but it really depends on the person's age and their comfort with technology.
 
Yes I do, often accompanied with a tin of gingerbreads.
Regular gingerbreads that is but decorated.
Thank you cards and birthday cards.
Sympathy cards are all hand written. I’m not at all into sending electronic e-cards.
Yes the cards probably get tossed and cause excess pollution but I still value the tradition.
 
I try to make a point of sending a card or note to children because I remember the thrill that I used to get when I received mail.

Also a very few to the people who are most important to me.

The rest get a note on FB messenger or an email.

I also have to add that I get very few pieces of personal mail.

At Christmas, I usually get three cards one from a dear old friend, one from a local politician, and one from my CPA.

I'm surprised and a little disappointed that the Undertaker doesn't send me one!:playful:
 
I've continued to write thankyou notes/letters,find it more heartfelt than sending a quick email
For the last 8yrs,I've been the head of our prayer circle group at my church.I'm constantly sending sympathy cards and once in awhile get well cards to church members and their families,just to let them know we are thinking&keeping them in our nightly prayers Sue
 
Sadly, future generations may well have no photographs, no letters, no books, no heirlooms, nothing of value that predates their own tiny niche in time.
 
I also keep a journal and diaries, which I write in by hand almost every day. It makes me sad that my daughter is very likely to just burn them unread when I leave this mortal coil, for the very reason you state Tommy... nothing left handwritten.

I still have a bible I had in school which although worn and tattered is a treasure to me because it's the only thing I have that has my mother's writing on the inside..
 
I try and keep in touch with some people that were in the White House, and some military friends, but its like President Bush wrote to me, we are all getting older, it takes more time to respond to one another.
 
No. I try to personalize all the online social correspondence as much as possible. My handwriting has gotten so awful that probably nobody could read it.
 
I used to send Xmas cards to people, who I haven't seen in well over 30 years. It felt a little bizarre wishing a warmest Xmas season to people you wouldn't recognize in person. I don't send cards to people, when the only reason is they sent me one.
 
Butterfly said:
Mine, too. Advancing arthritis in my hands doesn't help.
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I feel for you Butterfly , I have advancing osteoarthritis in my hands too..and it doesn't take long before my hands are too painful to grip the pen, but I still try as much as I can, and so far except on wet winter days my handwriting still hasn't suffered , as long as I don't spend too long writing, then I get very sore, and my hands shake... :(
 
I can see why a handwritten card/'thank you' is justified. The writer took time to manually respond. This may hold for "our" generation. But I'm not sure how younger generations will appreciate the effort. With instant communication, maybe the message will trump tradition.
 
hollydolly said:
I feel for you Butterfly , I have advancing osteoarthritis in my hands too..and it doesn't take long before my hands are too painful to grip the pen, but I still try as much as I can, and so far except on wet winter days my handwriting still hasn't suffered , as long as I don't spend too long writing, then I get very sore, and my hands shake... :(
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My handwriting was never exactly lovely, anyway. And during my working years I had to sign so much stuff all the time that even my signature deteriorated into an illegible scrawl. Nowdays, the extent of my handwritten stuff is pretty much a grocery list, which even I have trouble reading sometimes. "Let's see -- is that 'tea bags' or 'toilet paper' or maybe 'tuna fish'?"
 

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