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Thank you notes: Printed or Hand Written?

Posted on 11/21/24 at 3:52 pm
Posted by finchmeister08
Member since Mar 2011
38038 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 3:52 pm
Recently had a baby shower and my wife is handwriting thank you cards for all of the gifts. She did the same for everyone that sent us wedding gifts.

As she’s complaining about writing them, mainly because I’m not helping , I suggest typing up the notes and printing them. She say she can’t do that because it’s wrong.


Who’s right? Who’s wrong?
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
39814 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 3:54 pm to
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Recently had a baby shower


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everyone that sent us wedding gifts.


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Who’s right? Who’s wrong?



You are wrong. Get used to it.
Posted by LCA131
Home of the Fake Sig lines
Member since Feb 2008
75081 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 3:54 pm to
You are married, of course you're wrong.
Posted by glassman
Next to the beer taps at Finn's
Member since Oct 2008
117318 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 3:54 pm to
She's right.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
Member since Nov 2010
104216 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 3:58 pm to
She's right. You always handwrite thank you notes.
Posted by madamsquirrel
The big somewhere out there
Member since Jul 2009
53558 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 3:59 pm to
She is right.
You are wrong.
Posted by LSUJML
Central
Member since May 2008
50514 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:07 pm to
Hand written
Mine has 3 left to write from our wedding & keeps putting it off
Posted by DownshiftAndFloorIt
Here
Member since Jan 2011
69258 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:07 pm to
Typing notes is impersonal as hell. Hand written thank you notes are one of the few bastions of civility left in this world.

You're arguing and you're wrong. It's hard enough to win a wife argument when you're right and even then you never truly win. You're arguing and wrong.
Posted by delta_zulu
Middle TN
Member since Jul 2021
560 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:13 pm to
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You are married, of course you're wrong.
Posted by Afrojedi
Member since Jul 2017
506 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:21 pm to
I dont think ive ever received a printed thank you note before, always hand written
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
59077 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:28 pm to
You hand write them, I send handwritten thank yous to customers every month. I can knock out 15 in just a short time. They don’t care what they say,most probably trash em, but a few love them. Just something have done for a long while.

Point being, it shouldn’t take but an hour to knock em all out.
This post was edited on 11/21/24 at 5:18 pm
Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
20313 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:34 pm to
Handwritten, always. Tell your pregnant wife you're sorry
Posted by Dingeaux
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2005
5435 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:35 pm to
It's crazy that this came up. We just received a thank you note in the mail for a wedding shower gift that we gave to a young family member (cousin, mid-20s). The font on the envelope and card were made to look handwritten but it was too perfect and evenly spaced to be real. They were definitely printed.

It came across to me as tacky and insincere. I feel that it's the least you can do for all of the people who took time to host a party and provide gifts to you.

Hell, why don't you just send an email?

Some old school traditions need to be continued in my opinion. I don't really give a crap about how busy you think you are.
This post was edited on 11/21/24 at 4:38 pm
Posted by LSUBFA83
Member since May 2012
3845 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:44 pm to
Writing thank you notes has become a lost art and it's sad. But so many people now don't send any kind of thank you note that I'd be ok with a printed one or even an email.
Posted by NoBoDawg
Member since Feb 2014
1846 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 4:58 pm to
Sheesh man. I hand write all my thank you’s & avoid emailing them if possible.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
66837 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 5:03 pm to
AI Generated
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired - 31 years
Member since Feb 2019
5752 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 5:04 pm to
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As she’s complaining about writing them, mainly because I’m not helping


That's squarely a woman's job, like cookin', cleaning' and home makin'
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
21282 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 5:10 pm to
I have always done hand written. Printed seems rather impersonal.
Posted by midlothianlsu
Midlothian, Texas
Member since Oct 2009
1676 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 5:14 pm to
Handwritten. And congratulations on having the sex.
Posted by CajunInFL
New Orleans, LA
Member since May 2007
2042 posts
Posted on 11/21/24 at 5:17 pm to
You hand write thank you notes. But also, the wife is the secretary of the relationship. All correspondence (thank you notes, etc.) are her responsibility.
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