Thank-you notes are the worst and we should totally ban them
I will never forget the July 4th weekend a few summers ago when I sat on the porch of our rented lake house on a spectacularly sunny afternoon, suddenly panicked by the number of days that had elapsed since my daughter?s birthday party. ?You guys go ahead on the boat,? I said to my husband. ?I need to get through the rest of these thank yous.?
Which, yes. I had brought with me on vacation.
Ugggghhhhh.Â
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Birthday party etiquette
My daughter?s birthday falls at the end of June, and every July 4th weekend for the first few years of her life, I would slog through my handwritten who-gave-what list and carefully pen unique expressions of gratitude on pretty party-theme-matching stationary, doing my part in the sacred etiquette symbiosis of gift-giving and thank-you-note-receiving…while missing out on amazing life moments and fleeting summer days with every flick of the pen. And for what"
When you see that small rectangle in the mail pile, with the return address of the kid your kid just partied with, you know exactly what it is. Do you even open it" If you do, and you read some hastily penned version of ?Thanks for the gift,? do you feel? better" Truly more appreciated" I?m asking in all seriousness. Are you glad you got it...
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