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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that if you like the idea of sending

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Speaker 1: holiday cards, but you didn't send them this year, just

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Speaker 1: choose another holiday. Anytime is a good time for greeting cards,

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Speaker 1: and there are some upsides to skipping the December busyness.

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Speaker 1: There are all kinds of reasons people don't wind up

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Speaker 1: sending holiday cards. Life gets busy. Maybe your whole family

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Speaker 1: spent December battling illness. You meant to order cards, and

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Speaker 1: they didn't until late enough that the cards were going

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Speaker 1: to come after Christmas. If you feel sad about that,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to wait for next December. You can

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Speaker 1: choose any holiday like Valentine's Day or the start of

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Speaker 1: summer or anything to send cards. There may even be

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Speaker 1: advantages to sending cards at another time of year besides December.

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Speaker 1: If someone receives two hundred Christmas cards, they might not

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Speaker 1: really notice much about yours. But if they only get

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Speaker 1: a few Valentine's Day cards, or Thanksgiving cards or summer

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Speaker 1: greeting cards, well they will notice yours. Plus, if you

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Speaker 1: send your cards at some point after Christmas, you will

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Speaker 1: be able to update addresses on your list based on

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Speaker 1: the cards you received. That means fewer cards getting returned

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Speaker 1: or winding their way slowly through the postal forwarding system,

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Speaker 1: or collecting on the counters of the people who recently

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Speaker 1: bought your friends houses. Even if you did send cards

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Speaker 1: this past December, as you look ahead to this new year,

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Speaker 1: you might think about whether you'd like to send cards

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Speaker 1: during a different month. Here in the United States, I

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Speaker 1: think Thanksgiving cards can be a great idea, particularly if

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Speaker 1: you've moved recently or haven't sent holiday cards in a while.

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Speaker 1: Sending Thanksgiving cards creates a chance for friends to update

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Speaker 1: your address before they prepare their Christmas card lists. In addition,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to figure out which people on your

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Speaker 1: list do and don't celebrate various winter holidays because virtually

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Speaker 1: everyone in the US celebrates Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is also the

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Speaker 1: perfect time to let your friends and family know that

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Speaker 1: you are grateful for them, whether in the printed message,

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Speaker 1: in the note you handwrite, or both. If sending holiday

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Speaker 1: cards in December is working for you, great, I certainly

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Speaker 1: enjoy it. But if you didn't send cards this past December,

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Speaker 1: or perhaps you're curious about a different approach for the future,

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Speaker 1: consider sending cards at another time this year. People will

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Speaker 1: be delighted to receive a card from you anytime, so

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Speaker 1: there's no need to put on the brakes. It is

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Speaker 1: always a good time to reach out. In the meantime.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's making the

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Speaker 1: most of our tast Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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