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How Sending An Xmas Card This Year Can Help Brighten a Tough Year?

Christmas Cards Are a Great Way to Let Everyone Know How Your Family Is Doing During a Time When You Can't Get Together in Person.

By Emily RosePublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Wherever the chips may fall in life, the holiday season is typically a time where everyone comes together to celebrate community, family, and friendship.

As such, it is a time for connection, reflection, and sharing love and life with those that matter the most to us.

But we can’t be everywhere at once nor can we spend as much time we would like with them.

Whether because of geographic distance or simply due to the complex logistics of traveling on the holidays, this time of year is typically about compromise more often than not.

One way to show large groups of people that you care is to send out Xmas cards or photo holiday cards to your family and extended network.

We’ve outlined five reasons why sending out Xmas cards or photo holiday cards can help brighten a tough year for someone you love:

Remind Them You Care

Sending out Xmas cards is a cost-effective and commemorative way to show your family and friends that you care about them. The best aspect of sending out photo holiday cards is that you can tailor each one with a message specific to that individual. You can opt for a more formal note to a work colleague or boss while going for something more casual when mailing a friend or acquaintance. This kind of versatility makes Xmas cards a great way to satisfy a diverse audience of recipients.

Reconnect

Xmas cards are also a great way to spark reconnection with friends or family that, for one reason or the other, you haven’t had a chance to stay in touch with over the past year. You can get all of the big news out of the way in the photo holiday card itself and plan on meeting up in person later or sharing a phone call.

Looking Towards the Future

Xmas cards are fun because they not only recount the past year if sent along with a letter but also they offer some hint of looking towards the future. In this way, they become commemorative keepsakes that tell a narrative over the years. You can watch as your family grows and changes and you can document it all in a Christmas card. This also gives your network of recipients a keepsake that they can look back upon in the coming years. For family members, in particular, this often ends up being more treasured than many people realize and is sometimes the only photos many receive during the course of the year of their family.

Keeping in the Loop

Sending out photo holiday cards is an easy way to keep in the loop with your network. It signals to them that you are open to receiving a card from them as well as your openness about your own family. This kind of soft invitation to connect could spur something later down the road during the year, when things aren’t so busy, where you have time to visit that aunt you haven’t spoken to in years or hang out with that friend that lives across the country. Xmas cards and photo holiday cards invite a conversation and welcome networking and participation and they are an easy, rejection-free way of doing so.

Maintaining Close Ties

Xmas cards and photo holiday cards are part of the seasonal tradition for many families and for good reason. Traditions and scheduled events give us a rhythm to our year and help us plan and anticipate what is to come. Making the annual Xmas card photo an event is one way that many families take time to set aside their hectic lives, come together, and join together for a photo. Because there are so few opportunities to do just this as time passes, the importance of having traditions and maintaining them becomes even more important. If you’re looking for a way to bind your family and friends together and maintain a tradition that can be passed down through the generations, then look no further than the practice of sending out photo holiday cards.

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Emily Rose

I'm a mommy blogger. My blog's name is GlobalMomsMagazine.Com where i feel happy to share my experiences. Globalmomsmagazine also shares all other women's stories in their blog. If you have any stories, please visit the site then submit.

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