We received our first Christmas card in the mail today! There's just something about receiving Christmas cards via the mail that makes my heart glad ... it reminds me of the old-fashioned Christmas' that I remember from my childhood.
When I was a child, mail delivery was a very special time ... Christmas cards, the Sears & Roebuck Christmas catalog - oh my what a treat to sit and look through and dream, and the Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog was smaller, but none the less was a pretty big event at our house as well.
We rarely got to order anything out of either catalog, but we sure could dream big; it was like getting a gift when they arrived in the mail. Of course, then came the task of deciding who got to look at them first!!! All of us kids wanted to be first! There may or may not have been a tussle or two in deciding the lucky recipient! Sharing only worked for so long as one or the other of the sharers would almost always think they were being slighted in not being able to look at each page as long as they wanted, and an argument would begin ... and both sharers would lose the privilege of looking at the catalogs!
Such sweet and precious memories from my childhood ... sadly, there are no more Sears & Roebuck or Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs to look forward to however, those 'in the mail' Christmas Cards are still looked forward too and thought of as something pretty special at my house!
I hope you've enjoyed this little trip down memory lane with me today ... you can blame it on us getting our first Christmas card of 2024!
Sometimes, it's the littlest things that trigger the sweetest memories!
I hope you are enjoying your journey to Christmas as much as we are!
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I adore receiving cards through the post, so many friends and family have stopped, they give to charity instead, we posted our cards last week, the cost of stamps was eye wateringly high.
ReplyDeletepoppypatchwork, postage costs do make it difficult, don't they? Still, I'm one of those that still sends and hopes to receive them, I just figure the cost in with my Christmas budget.
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