Card-free Christmas

If one of the nicest things about the Christmas holidays for you is displaying the steady stream of cards which arrive through your letterbox, you may be well advised to start saving them up for future years. The reason for this piece of advice is a new trend that is very popular among my friends and workmates this year: Card Cash for Charity. What this means is, instead of sending cards to everyone, people are calculating the money they would have spent (not forgetting postage!) and then donating that amount to charity instead.

The point appears to have been reached where the majority of people can be reached by email, even if it’s a work-based service, and so I guess that might explain the impetus driving this trend.

Whatever, the charities are going to benefit, and as someone who usually buys ‘charity cards’ and then wonders just how much of the price goes to the actual charity, I think I will embrace this new idea wholeheartedly.

p.s. Merry Christmas!