Thank You Letters?

How nice! Presents! I love presents too.:P If I receive presents, I will say thank you on the spot. If they are from abroad, I think the least I can do is a sms or email to express my thanks. If the present is expensive, a call or a hand-written note would be in order.:)

I did until a while ago, unfortunately...But I really appreciate when someone still writes like this. When you write a letter by hand, you put a little more of YOU in the message, you give it a personal touch. Standardization (like typing) makes us colder, impersonal and sometimes shows apathy. A love letter, for instance, is always "softer", "warmer" than even pronouncing the words, not to mention if you type a message. Words are not only meant to convey messages, pure information or knowledge, but they are also meant to convey feelings, and there is a big part of paraverbal indices even in writing: the writing style is one of them...someone, if you remember could tell your personality from your writing style, and that is not a blind guess - there are some causes for the effects. The theory could continue, but one thing is certain...hand-writing is more valuable for people who know how to "read"!

I do not send many things through the snail mail..I am too environmentally aware to clutter the world with needless paperwork that someone will not care about. I do have a few elderly friends that I send cards to because they mean alot to them. Most people today do not value cards the way they used to.Myself I hate getting cards..they are beautiful so you hate to toss them but what do you do with them? answer is I cut the front from the back and put them in a bad and donate them to the local headstart to use for crafts..I just hate waste! xoxoxoxo xoxoxoxoxo

I do love writing letters. Nothing beats letters that are personally written (I mean writing using pen and paper). I never fail to write thank you letters for people who have done something good to or for me. This include people who have sent me cards or have given me gifts. This also include people who have done me favors.

I do still write letters by hand. Typing the seems so formal, and I don't like that. As for thank you notes, I generally only send them to people who are out of town. I have relatives and friends who sent gifts through the mail, and since they weren't here to see us open them, I feel a personal note is in order. But for my parents, who are here and see us open the gifts, we thank them in person and feel a written note is not necessary. The only exception to that is if a person really went above and beyond the call of duty. Like my sister who helped me a great deal with my son's birthday party. Even though I see her all the time and thanked her in person, I felt it was appropriate to express my gratitude in writing for her help.

i write them out religiously. i feel like they are tacky and unneccesary, but they can and do make a big difference...if i recieve one I always think, aww...that's sweet, they didn't have to do that, they just wasted good money on a dumb stamp, lol... The elderly especially like them. We did my friend a favor by getting her washer & dryer out of her mother's house - did us a favor too because even though they were used, they wree about 15 years newer & nicer than the ones I had. I wrote a nice thank you to the mother & she is still talking about it handwritten notes always go farther than typed notes...sometimes i will put my email address at the bottom of them...

I am not fond of writing thank you letters. But I do make it a point that if I was given something, i said thank you right away. I always makes it verbal than written.

Maybe it is wrong of me, but no I don't send out thank you notes. I say thank you at the time I recieve the gift but maybe that isn't enough. I don't receive any thank you notes either, so I haven't really thought to do it. I know when I got married many many years ago I sent out thank you notes to all the women that gave me shower gifts, and I sent out thank you notes to all the people that came to my wedding, but I have never thought to do it since. I might just try it sometime, when I get a gift, say for Christmas.

I still write Thank You letters to everyone who gifts me. My brother and sister don't. My mom tells me all the time that my Aunt tells her how nice it is that I write thank you letters while my bro and sis don't. I just feel like it is the right thing to do. And, from what I understand, it is greatly appreciated! My mom is very proud of me for it and really gets annoyed with my bro and sis for not doing it. I appreciate a nice hand written thank you from someone! It makes me feel appreciated and then I feel good about myself. Why not do that for someone else when they took the time to find you a nice gift?

Well, I always intend to...however time gets away from me and the cards I made to use for CHRISTMAS thank you cards are still sitting on my desk. But, I WILL send them out- better late than never. My grandma uses email- and I talk to her quite a bit via email, but she still loves getting the cards/handwritten note. I am training my younger kids (boys age 7) to write them- they did their own for their birthdays...well, they made the cards, signed "thank you" and their name then dictated to me what to write for them. My mom received a thank you note several months ago from a high school grad...I tell you what- it was the nicest, most genuine, appreciative and personal note I have ever read. And I have to admit *I* even got the warm fuzzies and it wasn't even to me! My mom felt so good because of that simple note. Phaedra- good for you for keeping this dying art going. I am positive your relatives will certainly appreciate it. Thank you for the motivation to keep it up myself, too!