A memorable moment's contributor shares her thoughts on the traditional greeting card and how such a small personalized gesture can really brighten up the day!
"Did you ever have one of those days where you are emotionally drained? You're being pulled in so many different directions that you just can not seem to get your hands around it all. You go home and the family is waiting for ... dinner, homework help, questions to be answered. You're standing at the counter opening all the mail from the day - advertisements, newspapers, flyers, bills (Yuck!) - and then, there's a strange envelope addressed to you. You pick it up, open it carefully, and inside is a greeting card. A real live greeting card with a personalized message and signature! The sender is thanking you for spending with them earlier that week. You vaguely recall the phone call. A call you did not give much thought to when you hung up.
You feel yourself sigh and say, "That was nice." All the craziness from earlier seems to melt away. Unconsciously, you have carved a small spot in your heart remembering that person forever. Unlike the other mundane mail, the card is tucked away in a safe place and you plan to call the giver and thank them for their thoughtfulness.
Sending a hand written card is such a back to basics practice. No one does this anymore. Did you know an email is read with your "head", while a greeting card is read with your "heart"? When you can create a heart connection with someone, gain a customer for life, and be remembered for just saying, "I appreciate you," perhaps each of us should rethink this practice. It really is the little things that matter most."
So pick up a greeting card today and let someone know how special you think they are! Or, go to www.YourMemorableMoments.com and with a free greeting card from Give to Give Greetings create a heart connection with someone you care about and let them experience an unexpected smile!
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cp said: how many of us even know our mailman's name.He comes to our door everyday but we don't know he exists. We hide because we don't want bad news (bills). Change is good! Lets all go back to our roots and send a card, meet the mailman and start a movement of heart connections and also get to meet our mailmann because we look forward to good news.
The best thing I ever get in the mail is the rare but priceless greeting card! Especially around the Holidays... I really look forward to giving and receiving these cards every year.
I live in a complex where you share a mailbox with 8 other houses. Its a good way to meet the neighbors.
My best friend & I typically try to send each other one card per month! Even though we talk all the time on phone and email, it really is just fun to get a card in the mail!! We always try to "out-funny" each other on our card selection!
My grandmother is the only one that sends me cards anymore, she's been doing it since I moved out of my parents house, and even though she's moved into the digital age and I get email's from her as well, I get a card in the mail, like clock work, first week of every month. Such a small token, but I look forward to seeing it every month.
One day a few months ago I received a letter in the mail from a very old friend from high school. We had lost touch after school ended, but in the letter my friend noted how she had been visiting her mother in our hometown and bumped into my mother in the grocery store. My mother gave her my address but never mentioned the encounter to me. The letter came as a complete surprise, as this was the girl I had a huge crush on back in school, but we were just friends. Anyways, her letter was warm and friendly, and made me start thinking about her all over again. I wrote a letter back to her, and we have continued to exchange written messages back and forth about once a week. It has been an unspoken thing, but we have decided to keep it old-fashioned and write letters rather than text or email, it is just so much more formal and romantic. We are planning to meet soon, face-to-face for the first time in 17 years.
As a kid I wrote a lot of letters and in turn I received lot of letters (no cellphones or computers in the old days!). Its the same with greeting cards, if you send one occasionally....occasionally you will receive something other than a bill in your mailbox!
In this world of electronic communication, there's nothing better than a hand-written note. I even refuse to use labels, I prefer to hand address envelopes so the recipient knows that it was a real person!
You never know what type of impression/connection a hand written not can have. I have two boys one now in college. When they were young I always reinforced them writing their own thank you notes, to my suprise they now put a lot of thought into notes and send them without me having to remind them
It is a rewarding feeling when our text messaging kids also see the importance of a hand written note!
It is good to know the "art" of a handwriten note is not dead. It adds a personal touch that you don't get from an email or a fill in the blanks form letter.
The personal touch does just that: it touches the person.
Hi,
Good one on The Power of a Personal Greeting Card.
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Thanks,
Camilynn
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