Scrap Happy: Mail Photos (File Under Remember Love)

Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.

Last Monday, I talked about how emailing photos of my daughter to family members is one way to give proofs of love. Today, I talk about mailing photos of my daughter to relatives as another way to give proofs of love.
But Email is So Easy…
Yes, these tasks are really the same type of task, but the logistics are different. Emailing photos is relatively easy in the digital era. Email is nice, but not everyone uses email, especially older relatives. Younger relatives are also less likely to use email as they are using facebook and text messaging to do much of their communicating.
Logistics of Mail
Mailing photos requires ordering extra prints or printing out photos at home. It might also involve a trip to the post office if you mail enough photos that the package requires additional postage. This task is a bit more difficult than simply emailing a few photos every so often.
What I Do
At Christmas, I made photo card and sent it to a few family members. In this envelope, I also included a few wallet sized photos of various snapshots of my daughter. I have only had my daughter’s photograph taken professionally once, so it is easy to slack off on sending out printed copies of photos when you haven’t spent a fortune getting professional photographs taken and getting dozens of copies of the same photo in the process. (I realize that I instead of spending the money on professional photos, I have spent a fortune on camera equipment.) I think it will be difficult to remember this particular task, but have a strategy in mind.
Option 1
Whenever I have photographs printed (about every 1-2 months, I could have 2-3 images printed up as wallets or as duplicates. Then I could mail out photographs to those relatives who do not use email or who would like printed copies.
Option 2
I could always just leave the task for Christmas and my daughter’s birthday (I send her birthday photograph with her thank you card). Her birthday is in the summer so plenty of time has passed to accumulate a lot of photographs to choose from. I think this is what I will do. Instead of only including her birthday photograph, I will also add a few snapshots that were taken since Christmas.
I can handle this.
I can print out a few photos twice a year to send to some of my family members. What about you? Do you email or mail photos of your children? Which do you prefer?
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• Scrap Happy: A Happiness Project
• Scrap Happy: Remember Love
• Scrap Happy: Email Photos (File Under Remember Love)

Stephanie