“Happy Holidays!” “Thinking of You” “Season’s Greetings” and the wishes go on andon, but really is sending a piece of paper waste to your friends and family theway you want to send your holiday wishes?
Do you buy into holiday propriety or as it is also called “tradition”by sending out Holiday Greeting cards to everyone in your address book, wastingtime, money, and paper all for something that ends up in the trash by NewYears? Well if you are like most Americans, you fear the possibility of beingviewed as inconsiderate if you do not send out these wonderful wastes of paperon time to all your acquaintances, some of which you may not even speak to on amonthly basis. Wow, the extents that we will go to to comply with socialstandards! We buy cards for everything: Birthdays, Holidays,Remembrances, Sympathy, Anniversaries, Love, Hate, Just Because, Laughs, etc. Butthe amount of trash all these cards generate is nothing to celebrate. In theUnited States about 7 billion, yes billion with a B, greeting cards are purchased and thrownaway annually. Not only are these cards little gold nuggets, known as being oneof the most overpriced “traditions” out there, they also attribute to a huge amount ofholiday trash! There really is nothing comforting about knowing that all ofyour time, efforts, and money are thrown away and not admired despite yourefforts to conform with holiday traditions!
So what to do about sending and receiving your holidaywishes? Well, rather than wasting significant amounts of time and money bybuying a bunch of paper that is just going to be thrown away, try the followingto reduce your spending and your holiday paper waste.
-Use e-cards! You can send a card electronically to everyonein your address book with one click and no paper, postage, etc.! These cards canbe personalized and will allow you to keep up with the social tradition ofsending greeting cards. The following sites offer e cards at little to no costAND no waste!
-Make your own cards out of paper scraps around the house-youcan even use bits and pieces of old cards you have received in the past to makenew cards! This reduces the amount of waste that you throw away and is aneffective way to recycle your old cards!
-Reduce the number of cards you send and only send cards to thoseyou really associate with. Think about it, do some of the recipients of yourcards really know who you are? Do you really care what they think about you somuch that you go out of your way to send them paper waste for the holiday?
-Don’t send any cards at all! In today’s world of socialmedia, do you really need to send a card to let them know you care? Probablynot! Post your greetings on their Facebook or other social media page. If youare like most Americans, you probably are already spending more than 7 hours amonth on Facebook already!
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