If you have some time, run out to the store for one or two eight-packs of Valentine’s cards and a box of individually-wrapped flavored tea bags.
Are you back from the store?
Good.
Address the cards, write a note about sharing a quiet moment and a cup of tea with your friend and insert a tea bag in the card.
You just started a good new habit for early February each year. Other inserts you can try are photos, bookmarks, decorative post-it note pads, and handmade items. I make plastic canvas magnets throughout the year that I can stick in a card. You could also consider enclosing the card and a DVD of Magdalena in a padded envelope. Do you have flat card-sized gift ideas that enclose well in a card?
A friend had suggested to me once that the widows on our donor team probably do not want reminders of birthdays and anniversaries. I had already been sending birthday and anniversary cards for years and thought of James 1:27 which says, “religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress…” I decided that day to start sending Valentines to some of the widows and single women on our donor team.
You could also pick out a few women friends to send an eValentine to. I sent these two this year:
Do you have a favorite eCard website that you like to use? (You could record which eCard you send in TntMPD so you don’t use the same eCard next year).
In Part Two of this series, I will talk about how I manage to send over 100 eCards and over 200 greeting cards per year, not including 300 Christmas cards. . . and in a non-stressful, manageable way.
NOTE: I recommend TntMPD to keep track of birthdays and anniversaries and more ….
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