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Dear Miss Manners: I'd like to get your opinion on children's pre-printed thank-you notes. I've seen a few in which the body is printed out, but the child is required to fill in only the names of ...
If you've gotten married recently, you're probably wondering when you should get around to your wedding thank yous. Here's ...
Dear Miss Manners: Should I send thank-you notes to my pre-K religion class students for the Christmas gifts they gave me? Thankfulness and generosity are key parts of most religions. Do you want ...
After the party is over, the lesser fun begins: thank you notes. Yes it's polite, but writing messages to every single person gets tiresome. Mass emails or pre-printed cards can get too generic ...
Others suggested including a pre-printed thank-you note with the gifts. Galanes noted that while the older generation was all for giving today’s youngsters a bit of a nudge to prompt good ...
I bought beautiful stationery rather than pre-printed thank-you cards, and expressed our gratitude, as well as our hopes that, if they found themselves in our area, we would have the chance to see ...
Never use pre-printed thank-you notes with nothing personal about them, Hlawatsch says. Include a personal note, but don’t get lengthy, Hlawatsch says. You only need to say, “Thanks” once.
Pre-printed thank-yous often arrive in our inboxes, in response to charitable donations, bill payments, and the like. Sometimes they even arrive in response to wedding gifts or graduation gifts.
But at least people still send those Christmas cards. Thank you notes, once considered a necessity of Christmas and a staple of childhood, appear to be, if not extinct, but certainly endangered.
You could also decide to be strict about it and insist they get that thank you note written before they play with the toy or spend the cash. But I haven’t done that, and when I came across this ...
In the pre-internet era, I regularly mailed notes of thanks to people on engraved stationery that my grandparents had given me ... Most People Undervalue the Benefits of Handwritten "Thank-You" Notes.