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Holiday Cards - why?

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For the past 15 odd years, my wife and I have diligently designed, created and posted holiday cards to our family and friends. It started the year we got married and has snowballed a bit since we had kids. Every year around September we started having conversations like this: Me: "Do you think we should start our card for this year?" She: "I told you that last week - you were going to start it..." Me: "Right. Do you have any idea what you want to do?" She: "YOU are the creative one - you had all these great ideas last week when we were out drinking..." You get the picture. I say holiday because we have a number of Jewish friends and a number that don't acknowledge religion or holidays. Making a non-denominational card was the thing to do. The first few years they were made by hand and posted by hand. That led to store-bought cards, followed by spreadsheets with Avery labels and ultimately to electronic cards designed online and the iTunes sto...