This decision is stressing me out. It\u2019s worse than the stress I\u2019m feeling about the three writing deadlines I have coming up right after Christmas. It\u2019s more stress than getting all the shopping and baking and visiting and serving done that makes it feel like \u201cthe season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The decision? Whether it\u2019s okay to send my Christmas letters to friends and family via email.<\/p>\n
A few years ago I would have died of shame at the mere suggestion. It would\u2019ve seemed so gauche, so impersonal. Granted, the Super Cheapskate side of me would\u2019ve lobbied hard at the cost savings, but Daughter of\u00a0My Mom\u00a0would have silenced Super Cheapskate with a single stink-eye glare.<\/p>\n
But this year, I\u2019m considering it. I mean, I want to send out letters, really I do. But I\u2019m pressed for time. I have a lot of stuff going on. It takes a while to fold and stuff and stamp letters. And to address them! And then there\u2019s the postage. Super Cheapskate keeps sitting on my left shoulder in her red satin devil bodysuit whispering, \u201cHave you seen the cost of a stamp, honey?\u201d and I can\u2019t drown her out by just cranking up my Sinatra Christmas CD louder.<\/p>\n
So what I want to know is\u2026how big of a breach of etiquette is it, exactly, in this day and age, to be an e-card sender? Just for one year? Can it be done without serious repercussions in the larger world of etiquette? Do I need to be one of the soldiers who \u201chold the line\u201d of the old guard, keeping things pure and real? Or can I let down my standards? Or is it, in fact, a relaxing of the standard at all? Instead am I simply getting with the times\u2014or being a thrifty mother?<\/p>\n
All these questions swirl inside me, causing the two wolves to gnaw and bark. And I know which one will win\u2014the one I feed. But which one I will feed\u2026is still up in for debate.<\/p>\n\n
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