This year I did my Christmas Day card delivery round on my own as my wife was playing host to the family. I'd also procrastinated with actually writing the cards, so on Christmas Eve I locked myself in the study and hand wrote 50 Christmas Cards to give out to people who have to work on Christmas Day. Each one had a lottery scratch card inside and by the 50 th envelope I'd licked, I think I was ready to throw up. Time for a cup of tea, or maybe something stronger;-) I still feel that a hand written card is so much more personal than having them printed.Anyway I set off around 9am destined for my local hospital and I handed out around 35 cards to nurses, doctors, receptionists and cleaners. Then off to the ambulance station, then the fire station and I was still left with 5 cards. I stopped at the nearest petrol station where, as luck would have it, there were 5 staff on duty. So I went home having given out all my cards and hopefully made someone's day (x50). Maybe someone even won a prize on the scratch card. I'll never know.
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- Posted by agladman
- Dec 29, 2016
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Readers Comments
pyronik wrote: that's great :-) thank you. & yep, you definitely deserved tea or something stronger to take away the taste of that glue! I sometimes just dip my finger into a glass of water & run it along the glue instead of licking.
Mish wrote: You are an awesome dude!! :) Well done. Bless
Lilijourney wrote: Sending you KBs 😊
Rajni wrote: Christmas spirit brings so many good memories. Yours giving cards is very inspiring. I also gave many handmade cards that I didn't count all.
mindyjourney wrote: What a great idea, my friend and a wonderful way to celebrate the giving Light of Christmas. Thank you!!!!
agladman wrote: Wow, such lovely comments. Thank you fellow KindSpringers, your words and KBs are a real tonic:-)
splain wrote: Love this. Wow
RoseMarie wrote: You are wonderful, I will try and remember to do this on Christmas day next year. Such worthy people. Thanks x 💓
leoladyc728 wrote: such a lovely thing to do. I know you made some people happy
laughingsoul wrote: The last 5 cards and 5 people on duty? I don't think it was just happening. It seems that when we are set to do good, opportunities will show up. Thank you for being so kind, you brighten the day of all those people.
