Then find a piece of stationery, lined paper, graphing paper, recycled paper, back of a receipt, whatever you can find…
And write someone a letter. A love letter. An I’m sorry letter. A letter of thanks. A note to say how missed they are. A tale of your day, the weather or what your Great Aunt Bertha or coworker or creepy dude on the playground actually said to you last week. A rhymed couplet, scripture verse or haiku would be lovely as well.
I’m not posting again until ten people have commented that they’ve written and mailed a real, honest-to-goodness letter.
God bless you. Long live snail mail.
12 Comments
Melissa Marsh Oct 1, 2009 7:33 PM
I write a letter to my grandmother every few weeks – she writes me back. Even though she has email and is on Facebook (and she’s 83!), we still write.
I even have written letters with an old fashioned quill pen and ink.
Rebecca Oct 1, 2009 7:37 PM
I’ve got a letter stamped and waiting for tomorrow’s pickup. (I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t write something as well!)
charity Oct 2, 2009 7:33 AM
woah. this is kind of freaky. i sent mine YESTERDAY!
Monica Oct 2, 2009 1:52 PM
I wrote a letter to our Compassion child in Haiti – it will go out in tomorrow’s mail! Love old fashioned snail mail!
Moriah @ Please Pass the Salt Oct 2, 2009 2:30 PM
I just sent two thank-you cards. Snail mail is not dead! Still so fun. (Except receiving the kind that contain bills, that’s not so fun.)
Julie B Oct 3, 2009 7:57 PM
I sent a thank you note out today. Finding “real mail” (i.e., not bills) in the mailbox makes my day! =)
Sarah B. Oct 4, 2009 10:46 PM
okay, that’s it. i’m writing you a letter, bec!! (No promise of when it will find its way to the mailbox, though!) ;)
Claudia Oct 5, 2009 10:14 AM
Three letters with a personal note this week.
Rebecca Oct 5, 2009 4:14 PM
Woohoo! We made it past ten!
Evil Uncle Adam Oct 6, 2009 6:39 PM
For those of us too lazy to snip out our own letters, here’s a helpful link: http://www.addletters.com/ransom-note-generator.htm
Sample letter: “GiVe mE aLl oF yOUr moNEy AnD I wiLL rETurN thE kIttY”
For all those helpful… “projects” you have on the back burner. Yay letters.
Aubrey Oct 8, 2009 11:09 AM
I finally wrote a thank you note to my in laws that I’ve been meaning to get written for several weeks. Thanks for the reminder!
Clare Oct 27, 2009 9:59 PM
This was awesome. I love writing letters and sending greeting cards for totally random reasons. Its sad that very few people take the time to do it in these days of facebook and AIM.