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updated: Dec 29, 2012, 3:00 PM

Do you send thank you notes to family and friends? Does it matter what method one uses to send?

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TOPCATHAT	2012-12-30 05:58 AM
I LOVE making cards, so yes, I send "Thank You" cards, as well any kind of card....my momma brung me up rite. What gets to me is the "no thank you" non-cards I don't receive....so rude !
ARCHIE	2012-12-30 08:45 AM
To me, a thank you note responds in kind to someone who went out of their way, stopped their everyday life, to pay attention to you. Sending the very least of acknowledgments, a slight nod by email, is ungracious, a response not in kind.
COMMENT 358446	2012-12-30 09:31 AM
Writing paper is Stationery, a statue is Stationary.
COMMENT 358485P	2012-12-30 11:02 AM
ah but this is poetry 446, perhaps this misapplication was intended by the "artist"
COMMENT 358492	2012-12-30 11:20 AM
Just a thought - it simply does not occur to me to have a preconception of how someone should respond to what it gives me pleasure to do. If I have mailed or sent a substantial item, I do appreciate knowing it was received, and when people make acknowledgement of any kind I am warmly impressed. I try to always acknowledge gifts appropriately, but the manner of acknowledgment seems to me to be proportional to the gift or gesture. When, for example, people insist on paying for a meal, I always say, "I'll get you next time!" and then make a real point to do so. I guess I am saying I think it is gracious to put the expectations on oneself, rather than others. Glad this is anonymous!
COMMENT 358502P	2012-12-30 11:36 AM
I thank in person when possible, and e-mail later if I remember to, but my elderly mother-in-law gets a hand-written thank-you. In general nobody thanks for presents, in our kids' families - the next generation - which I think is poor training for the younger generations. An e-mail would be fine.

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