I apologize but this entry is going to be short and unrelated to anything else on this blog.
I hate photo Christmas cards.
Do I love to see pics of friends I haven't seen in years? Yes. Do I love to receive Christmas cards? Yes. Do I like getting a cheap 25-cent mass copy of an odd-shaped photo that's not even framable, with some random "Happy Holidays" strewn across the front in gaudy fonts, without so much as a "Love, The Jones Family" signed on it?
NO.
Do us all a favor, people. If you can't be bothered enough to write a heartfelt message on the card, save your .25 for the copy and your .44 for the stamp and all the trees you're helping kill, and DON'T BOTHER SENDING ANYTHING AT ALL.
Also; shirtless kid pics over the age of 1, MAYBE 2, are creepy and inappropriate.
And finally, if you're actually going to *electronically* send me a Christmas card, now it REALLY better have a heartfelt message in it that is customized just to me and my family. Otherwise you've really only just SPAMMED me.
You don't have to be Martha Stewart, people. You just have to give a damn. When you care enough to send the very best, you don't need to go to Hallmark. YOU JUST NEED TO HAND WRITE SOMETHING. ANYTHING.
If I'm not worth it enough to send something personal to, PLEASE. Spare the trees. The earth, and I, thank you.
