Cheap Christmas Cards

Our typical Christmas card production usually involves a lovely family update letter, printed on lovely Christmas stationary, accompanied by a lovely family photo-card, addressed with lovely homemade labels, and mailed with lovely Christmas stamps.  We usually send approximately 100 of these blessed cards for this time-honored expectation.  Then we set up a family assembly line of stuffing, licking, sticking, and mailing.  It's just lovely 100 times over!  (PS. This usually occurs somewhere around December 22 in a mad rush!)

Stationery:  $25
Ink cartridge: $25
Photo cards: $75
Stamps:  $50
Total Christmas card cost:  $175

This year, I have to give a LOUD SHOUT OUT to my friend Darcy who discovered a screamin' deal on a whole different method.  Cardstore.com is the best thing to hit the Christmas card planet.  Ever.  Not only do they have cool cards, but you can add photos, text (not a whole letter, but some) and......you'll never believe this.....they MAIL the cards for you!  THERE'S NO STAMP COST!!  Right now they have a 70% off deal (which just today changed to a 75% off deal!)--that means we spent only $47 on the whole Christmas card package!  That's less than the price of stamps alone!

I now have all my addresses entered into their system--ready to go for next year too!  You can choose the date you want them to be mailed.  And they have zillions of cards, not just for Christmas!  Full price cards are about $2.29.....still cheaper than going to the store.  And did I mention there's NO STAMP COST!  Without the 70% off deal, the total cost for the photo card I chose, would have been $190--then they gave a discount for a "large order" of 100+ cards, then the 70% discount to end up at $47.....holy moly!  And I'm already done and it's not even Thanksgiving!  This has never happened in the history of Williams Christmas cards!

Darcy my friend, you rock!

Money saved:  $128