send thank you notes

Sending thank you notes is one of those traditions that I wish to celebrate and embrace.

I started two weeks ago. The goal so far is one thank you note every week. 16 months ago

of finding the purchase of letterpress cards nearly irresistible, I have plenty of tools for thank you-writing. Thanks to my robust supply, able to send notes to friends who treated me this week. 2 years ago

of motivations: guilt, competitiveness, procrastination from other things, and real, profound gratitude I got two thank you notes into the mail. 2 years ago

for people who helped with our conference last week.

Must now mail all thank you’s or they are for naught… 4 years ago

are critical – and I’m afraid I haven’t written enough of them. But I’ve just taken care of some November events and recommitting to consistent work-related thanking!

Of course e-mail is faster, and more timely, but I’m going for written, snail-mailed thanks. We’ll see how I can sustain this. 4 years ago

Letting people know that I’m thankful for something they gave me or something they did for me is super important. It affirms what they’ve done and let’s them know they’re appreciated. 4 years ago

for sending photos from my cousin’s wedding with spectacular speed. 4 years ago

my friend’s neighbor, completely out of the blue drove me around for almost six hours giving me an intensive middle eastern food tour of LA when I had just asked for advice on good mid-eastern eats in the neighborhood. Thanked him with a note, but still feel like I can’t thank him enough. 4 years ago

my cousin is out of control. on the occasion of her wedding, she sent me a gift (in addition to the gifts she gave at the wedding itself) for helping out improvisationally. Least I could do was send her a thank you note! 4 years ago

i now owe at least three notes-two of which are rather late. this is one of my very worst habits and makes me look so ungrateful. I am signing off line right now to actually pick up a pen and note card! 4 years ago

who paid for lunch yesterday – since I left my wallet on my desk. not on purpose I swear!

Anyway, it’s nice to be treated, (and it’s also nice to send a thank you note.) 4 years ago

to another colleague who recently retired. very glad I did it, and in a relatively timely way. There does seem to be some generational turnover happening at work these days.

He’s someone who was sometimes difficult to talk to, but I’m happy to communicate to him why I’ve really appreciated his work and his presence. 4 years ago

are a critical piece of this. I’m sorry to say that I have a number of written, never sent, letters hanging about for lack of complete addresses. At a certain point they become weird and irrelevent.

Taking a few pieces to mail today. 4 years ago

Irene who hosted her own retirement party today. Also need to send one to Bill and Chris and Jose for last weekend! 4 years ago

Really happy to have this one under my belt! At first I sent out pre-made thankyou cards but last week I bought some beautiful paper, cut it into rectangles and backed it with plain cream coloured paper to make my own. It didn’t take long and they look great, plus it was way cheaper.

I’ve been sending them out at all appropriate occassions since January so I feel I can tick this off now. I get lots of compliments on something that takes very little effort and people always say how nice it is to receive something in the mail that has the sole purpose of being polite and happy (as opposed to bills etc.!) Definitely worth it. 4 years ago

I sent out at least 10 notes during the month of January for both “thank you” and keeping in touch. All of my birthday notes have been mailed out too within one week of my party. It feels great to accomplish this little thing. I used to feel so guilty that someone had given me something and I would never respond-how rude. I was always so “busy”. I would get angry with myself but never correct the behaviour. I have disgusted myself into action at long last and feel so much better because of it! 5 years ago

i hate sending thank you notes more than anything. i didn’t send out any christmas cards, so i felt i had to at least send the thank you notes. i’m glad i did. 5 years ago

I sat down last night and wrote out thank you notes to my hosts over Christmas time and some special notes for fab gifts! I feel really good about this and hope I can keep it up through out the year. I have also actually taken them to the post office and put them in the box. A first. In the past if I wrote the note it took so long to send I usually threw it away. I am making progress. 5 years ago

so we’ll see if they ever get sent. 5 years ago