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Thank you's - generic message or handwitten?
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JSDB
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Re: Thank you's - generic message or handwitten?
Handwritten thank you, always. That said, I would rather get a thank you text or email than a preprinted card. I would actually rather get nothing than a preprinted card, to me it's a concrete reminder of the lack of effort and acknowledgement of your gift.
Interestingly, last year I did typed thank yous for DS 1st birthday because the invitation template I bought came with a free editable thank you template. I wrote personal thank yous to each person based off the same template and it wasn't bad but printing them was a freaking nightmare (staples managed to botch my order 3 separate times) and I will never do it again for that reason  By the third time I was so pissed because I had already taken the time to write out personal messages the first time and I didnt want to do it over again so the few stragglers whose thank yous still never got printed got texted or emailed screen shots of their typed thank yous
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Re: Thank you's - generic message or handwitten?
Posted by Hofstra26
I would have them printed because there is NO way I would ever get DH to sit down and write out thank you's, he would never, ever get around to it. So I would absolutely have them printed and just let DH sign his name. Handwritten thank you's are nice but they end up in the same place as the printed ones...........in the garbage. A thank you is a thank you, I think everyone gets too caught up in all of the specifics of thank you cards. JMO.
I agree.
For a Birthday party I think pre-printed is fine. Have him sign his name. Add a short message if he wants and call it a day.
If it's a wedding or bridal/baby shower I like handwritten.
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| Posted 5/27/16 12:35 PM |
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Re: Thank you's - generic message or handwitten?
I think it's nice to write a handwritten message that mentions the specific gift.
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| Posted 5/27/16 1:26 PM |
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ElizaRags35
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Thank you's - generic message or handwitten?
Doesn't matter to me at all. I'll skim it and toss it, to be honest.
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| Posted 5/27/16 5:56 PM |
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drpepper318
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Re: Thank you's - generic message or handwitten?
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Posted by WonderLady
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Posted by 2girls2love
What I find so interesting about this ....
Some responses are giving a guy a pass with the TY note, simply because its a guy in this particular scenario.
Not to start a debate or anything, but this is what I immediately noticed.
YESSSS! I'm so annoyed reading these responses that the guy basically doesn't have to adhere to etiquette because he's a man.
Women - WE SUCK!! Honestly, we are so freaking awful to one another, and here is the proof, that we don't expect a grown man to write out a stupid thank you card for HIS PARTY. I'm 9832492837429874938 times busier than my DH. I work more hours, I have more responsibility than he does, but I'm the one who will get judged for not writing a thank you card.
Meanwhile, I currently have my 8 year old daughter hand-writing her thank you cards for her communion. Lest she be judged... (and she's doing a great freakin job)
And I'd also never let my DH write out a thank you card on my behalf because he'd do a terrible job.
I'm going to teach my son better than this.
Don't mind my rant, the truth in it is what bothers me.
But women are the ones sending thank yous AND judging the thank yous. Men are just bowing out of the nonsense altogether. It's kind of the same reason why men don't have bridal or baby showers.
Yes, that's exactly why I'm saying that we suck as women. We do horrible, horrible things to each other. It bugs me that anyone would judge a woman for not sending a thank you card for her birthday party but not judge her husband for the same. It's ridiculous.
However, my DH was at our bridal shower, and he does use the same iron, eats off the same dishes, etc. etc... so that was for him too. AS was the baby shower, which he was also there for, because it was also his baby.
ITA
When my DH turned 40 we were sucked in to throwing this big bash (his twin brother wanted it .) My SIL and I said no gifts but there were still a handful and my DH wrote a note for each of them and I would never have expected him not to.
Men should not be excused. They'll write it in their own style and that's fine!
TOTALLY!!!!
For what it's worth, I went to a surprise 30th birthday party for a man & gave him a very nice gift.... never got a thank you & thought it was pretty strange.... don't care that he's a man.
I am shocked by how many people think a grown man should not be expected to have basic manners just because he's a man.
My husband writes thank you's... he wrote out all the thank you's for his side of the family for our wedding. He had no problem doing it & I never thought it was unusual.
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| Posted 5/27/16 9:22 PM |
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nycbuslady
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Re: Thank you's - generic message or handwitten?
Posted by secretlyTTCagain
Handwritten thank you, always. That said, I would rather get a thank you text or email than a preprinted card. I would actually rather get nothing than a preprinted card, to me it's a concrete reminder of the lack of effort and acknowledgement of your gift.
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I agree. Today we got a thank you card for a First Communion we went to. It was a pic of the girl with a pre-printed "Thank You!" That's it -- nothing written on it, not even a pre-printed "From xxxxxx". It just seemed so lazy to me.
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| Posted 5/27/16 9:34 PM |
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