Green Holiday Newsletter

Last year, I started doing New Years newsletters.  That way I would send newsletters to only those people who I knew still wanted to exchange them.

I also sent our holiday greetings by e-mail to a third of our recipients who were technologically savvy.  I found that I could write longer personal notes to each person and even include photos by attaching them along with the newsletter to the e-mail.

Our thinking was that this might be another way to reduce paper waste. 

I don't know for sure if people are unhappy about getting the newsletters by e-mail instead of a hard copy, but so far the response has been positive. 

The only problem I see with all this is if people don't send me holiday cards, I won't be able to cut them up to make those gift tags.    Ah well...

The most important thing about the holidays is that it's a time for family and friends to reconnect and share their lives.  I've gotten some pretty cards with only the sender's name on it.   I prefer newsletters if they're not going to write anything because at least that lets us know what's going on in their lives. 

There's so much to celebrate right now.  I'd like to wish you all a wonderful, warm (if possible), happy Christmas Eve!