Thank you notes

tiggerlover

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Do you or your children send out thank you notes at Christmas and for their birthday?

It is a requirement in this house, generally the rule here is you can't play with it until the thank you is written. This year we relaxed the rules and DS wrote out his thank you notes the next day.

We aren't as strict with the thank you notes when we are receiving the gift in person, but if a person sends us a gift and we don't open it in front of them we always send a thank you note. Unfortuneately many people do not and this drives me crazy. If I take the time to pick out a present and mail it to a person I think the least they can do is send a thank you or call to say thanks.

This year since we are so far away from family we had thank you cards made with DS's picture from shutterfly.com. Here is the picture we used, it had a holiday boarder, but I couldn't link it here, so this is the plain picture I started with:

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So how about it, do you send thank you notes?

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Yes, especially when the giver was not present to hear a heartfelt "thank you" at Christmas. On birthdays, everyone gets a thank you note, whether they are present or not.
 
When we receive gifts in person and can directly say thank you, I don't write a note.

If the gift comes in the mail (or the like) then a prompt thank you note is required so that the giver knows it arrived.

For 2 years in a row, my brother did not acknowledge that he ever received the birthday gifts that I sent him. I don't send them anymore.
 

we always phone the gift giver and say thanks in person. OR, we thank them via email if it's someone that is an emailer. Might send an e-card. :D
 
With our in-laws we don't sent thank you notes, we just call them and thank them over the phone (they do the same with us). For all gifts given in person, I will thank the giver then so I don't send thank you notes. Otherwise I do send thank yous out as soon as possible :)
 
My girls always send out thank you notes. Actually my FIL waits for his!!! Even though he does not get them from his daughter and son and other granddaughters!!! He actually asks for it or asks my DH if I had sent them out yet!!!

My family always has the children send thank you notes to those that gave them presents (for any occassion). DHs family (mothers side)...not at all..SIL doesn't even acknowledge she gets a gift from us!!! My oldest DD is catching on to her rudeness now.......
 
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Yes...even if they saw you open it. That is why every year at Christmas we get personalized stationery. My mom did this with us and now I do it with DD. We finished them all yesterday and mailed them this morning.
 
At 5 and 2 1/2 in person Thank You and Phone Thank Yous are a must, otherwise it is just me sending the note. It is better for DDs to realize they need to Thank the person for the gift. Once they can write the rules will change.
 
Yes, I always send out hand written thank yous. It is a must for me.

DD and DS were raised to do it also, now that they are grown...it's up to them to do it. I don't know if they do or not.

I only receive 1 or 2 and maybe 1 or 2 via e-mail.
Seems most people don't....and especially family :( I never know if they have even received the things we sent.
 
:D I think the Thank you notes are a very nice thing to do, especially if the gift comes from someone that wasn't there when you opened the gift.
 
Thank you notes are a must for me. When we were growing up, my mom always gave us thank you stationery for Christmas so that we could write our cards that afternoon. I don't allow myself to put gifts away until the thank you note is written and sent so that the mess will drive me crazy and force me to write the note right away.
 
I always send thank you notes, and I insist that my son do the same. We've run into a problem this year, in that we are unsure as to which aunt gave him which gift. I like the notes to be specific, but this year may be an exception to that. :)
 
I was raised to always send a thank you note, even if the gift was given in person. And I was always instructed to write a note regarding the gift....what I liked about it, how I was hoping to spend the money, etc.
I do the same with my kids. I have them write at least 2 per night and they are usually done by NYE.
When they were younger I would get the printed cards and they would just sign (scribble) their names. Now that they are 8 & 11, I get blank cards and they write their own message.
DS's are still pretty plain...."thank you for the ______. I like it a lot".
But DD has really started to write very nice personalized notes.

It really bothers me when I take the time to send a gift (especially to a teen or young adult) and I get no response.
 
I always send thank-you notes too. Last year when I was teaching the grade 6/7 class, the kids were tickled pink to get thank-you notes mailed right to their home. Of of the kids came and told me that he thought it was so cool to get mail from his teacher :)
 
Not with my immediate family, that I see that day. DS still has to call his Godmother (my cousin) and Thank her for the gift she sent and, by the time his BD rolls around on 12/31, he can Thank her twice.

For BD parties, I buy as many Thank Yous as I do Invitations. DD even wrote her own this year, just turned 5. She may have only wrote "Thank you......" (to whomever) but, she did it herself. ;)
 
I have 46 thank yous to write. DD (8yo) will be writing her own.
They have always been a must for me. Hunter also gets notes to write those "thank yous" on. :)
 













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