{"id":424,"date":"2008-05-29T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/holiday-cards-and-tidbits\/buying-personalized-holiday-cards-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-just-the-first-step\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:02:10","slug":"buying-personalized-holiday-cards-its-just-the-first-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/holiday-cards-and-tidbits\/buying-personalized-holiday-cards-its-just-the-first-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying Personalized Holiday Cards \u2013 It\u2019s Just the First Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the old saying \u201cThe cobbler\u2019s son has no shoes?\u201d Strangely enough, since I work for a company that makes personalized holiday cards<\/a><\/strong>, it actually applies to me. I heard that saying a lot as I was growing up. Why? Well first there was my uncle. We lived in an apartment in his building and of course he would be the one to call whenever there was a plumbing problem because not only was he the landlord, he also owned his own plumbing business. Yet he would come and replace our faucet with old pieces he could find laying around and sometimes use duct tape to seal a leaky pipe, always saying he would be back to fix it later. And of course, later could mean 6 months, or even a year!<\/p>\n

Then of course there is my grandfather, who after he retired from the fire department, started his own house painting business. Yet the outside of my grandparents\u2019 house remained unpainted for about 27 years. In fact, it didn\u2019t get painted until after he retired from that business and handed it down to my uncle who decided to surprise them and paint their house while they were away on vacation.<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s me. My company, The Gallery Collection, specializes in personalized holiday cards. I\u2019m able to order a custom holiday card<\/a><\/strong> imprinted with my family\u2019s names and a holiday message. In addition, we can have the mailing envelopes printed with our return address. I pick out my personalized holiday cards in March for goodness sake! All I have to do come December is address the envelope, stick a stamp on it and mail it! Yet there I am every December 21st or 22nd, hurriedly going through my collection of old envelopes with return addresses as I send out my Christmas cards. No, I don\u2019t have an address book. I simply have a collection of envelopes from greeting cards that I have received over the years. If you send me holiday cards with your return address on it, you\u2019re sure to get greeting cards back. If you don\u2019t, hopefully I can look up your address online. If you\u2019re not listed, you\u2019re probably out of luck and hopefully you will learn your lesson and include your address next time! 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