Showing posts with label etiquette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label etiquette. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

Today's mail

Real mail is the best (with the exception of bills, parking tickets, and coupons for Arby's).  Today I received a thank you note from my friend, Cara, who I worked with at Pulp Papery.  Cara is a stylish interior designer and event planner (here) and is always up on her etiquette.  Look at the sweet card I received in the mail today for attending her super fun birthday party a few weeks ago.


The neat thing about this card is that once you've finished displaying it, you tear the card in half along the perforated edge and write a thank-you postcard to another friend.  I love this idea!

Who needs a thank you

Do you send thank you's regularly?  When I was younger my sister and I sat down (sometimes forcefully) within days after birthdays and Christmas to write our thank you notes.  There was no question about it; you received a gift, you wrote a thank you note (even if it involved a lot of parental prodding).  After so many years of writing notes, it really becomes second nature.  I still send them after receiving a gift, if a friend helps with something, after someone has hosted a party and after interviews... sometimes I send notes just to say hi.  Part of the enjoyment of writing is being able to do it on such cute stationery.  I like to keep a box of thank you's on hand and some of these are definitely catching my eye.


8. Large print by Nothing Short of Thankful


  • For more on when to write thank you notes from the Emily Post site.
  • Writing manly thank you's.
  • Why Jimmy Fallon is thankful.
  • book that discusses the art of faxing thank you's among other more relevant things.
  • And, if you still don't have time for a handwritten note, there's always this website.