December 27th, 2007 | 
Author: JJT recently wrote about how Christmas photo cards annoy him. Thats all well and good. I was actually thinking ‘well great, looks like the wife made the right choice this year’.
Turns out she saw something in a craft magazine and instead of mailing out our standard photo cards this year, she was making some kind of custom card with the kids fingerprints turned into reindeer or some kind of creative crap like that. JJT’ll be happy to know that one less family is sending out a photo card and the kids get some kind of project to do that doesn’t involve plugging something in. It’s a win/win right?
Wrong.
I then happen to read Filegirl’s post about a reindeer fingerprint card that lost its ‘googly eyes’ during mailing. Her one word description? ‘Nightmares’. Nice.
Like I said, you just can’t win.
Next year I think we’ll stick to my favorite Christmas mailing….. The fake ‘year in review’ letter. But thats another entry.
It would’ve been adorable had the EYES STAYED ON! You gotta admit, those reindeer were out of a horror show. Hopefully your kids used better glue.
You know, reading this just makes me want to do up a little Uncov-style FAIL picture for you.
Homemade cards are not that bad, and I actually think that is better than the effort I make in picking out my cards. Still, though, if you send the “Year in Review” letter, that’s on my Christmas Card FAIL List.
Fake ‘year in review’. Key word being fake.
As long as by “Fake” it pokes a lot of fun at the typical “Year in Review” newsletter, I would applaud your efforts. How “fake” is it going to be?
I received one from a former friend that included tidbits like…
“Uncle so-and-so finally that that tumor removed. You know the one.” and…
“Our son what’s-his-name was released from maximum security and is really enjoying his new privileges at the medium-security facility.”
Ah, holidays…