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#166927 - 12/03/08 03:36 PM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: Dotsie]
chatty lady Offline
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Registered: 02/24/04
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Oh my JJ, poor Elvis, thats exactly the way he looked before he passed...

Got my list of names for the card exchange. Lots of great gals this year, YIPEE! But I have to admit I am dissapointed not to see more of our Boomer sisters joining in...Bah, humbug!!!
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#166939 - 12/03/08 05:01 PM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: Dotsie]
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Registered: 08/12/08
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Hi JJ

Thanks for putting this together...you're the sweetest!
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#166961 - 12/04/08 09:20 AM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: Mama Red]
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chatty, I think people are cutting back on expenses.
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#166967 - 12/04/08 09:36 AM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: Dotsie]
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Got the letter. Got the list! Thank you jawjaw for all your kindness and hard work! wink


Edited by jabber (12/04/08 09:57 AM)

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#167000 - 12/04/08 03:52 PM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: jabber]
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Registered: 06/19/05
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I also got the list and letter. I really love doing the card exchange. It is such fun. Thanks JJ for doing all the work involved so we can do this again this year. You go girl!
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#167003 - 12/04/08 05:28 PM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: Sandpiper]
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I suppose so Dotsie....I hadn't been thinking of additional postage to foreign shores, both to and from. I guess we are lucky to have fifteen women involved.
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#167006 - 12/04/08 05:52 PM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: chatty lady]
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Registered: 03/22/05
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Actually, it's not just the card. For me, the postage is the real zinger. Here it costs $1.69 per card to send overseas and .96 per card to send to the US. That adds up. Despite having been brutally hit by the recent market slump, I could still afford to do the exchange, but only because we've cut down in other areas. E.g., hubby and I are not exchanging gifts this year (well, we're using our annual trip to Cuba as our Christmas gift to each other this year). I can fully understand how some people might not be able to stretch an already overstretched budget any farther right now.


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#167034 - 12/05/08 01:39 AM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: Eagle Heart]
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Admittedly, EagleH this is the main reason I choose not to be on the card exchange: the cost to mail outside of Canada.
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#167050 - 12/05/08 09:13 AM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: orchid]
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I sent all my boomer cards out yesterday. Cards sent across the pond cost 94 cents each to send. Don't think it's unreasonable, considering here it's 42 cents and rising. At the end of November, 2007, I mailed a box of gifts to Italy. Family received that mailing in March. I almost flipped my bippie! This year's Christmas package was sent to Italy via "Priority" mail. Shipping costs, cost almost as much as the contents.


Edited by jabber (12/05/08 09:19 AM)

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#167073 - 12/05/08 04:00 PM Re: Christmas Card Exchange [Re: jabber]
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Its not too expensive when simply sending something like a card or letter but OMG, the cost of sending a gift is way high. I still do it though because those are my Boomer sisters across the pond and worth every cent.
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