I can't believe so many of you have done the exact same thing!
I would put the sealed late note inside a new envelope with a new note explaining the situation. I would be mortified and yes, there are olds out there who have never forgotten you didn't send a TY card.
I've never admitted this to anyone either, but I also found a stack of TY cards that my H was supposed to mail when we moved from MI to OR. Three years after our wedding. Not nine, but still. I was so pissed. I actually packed them because I couldn't decide if I should mail them or not. Almost two years later, I haven't because I chickened out. So, five years.
you know what needs to be done. i double dog dare ya
Post by bitsandpieces on Jul 7, 2013 22:57:14 GMT -5
OMG, my husband did this too. I know all of mine were received, and I know where his were when I last saw them, but I am afraid to go look and see if they are still there
You HAVE to mail them! I vote putting them in larger envelopes (provided there aren't a huge amount of them) with recent pics of the family and an explanation.
I've never admitted this to anyone either, but I also found a stack of TY cards that my H was supposed to mail when we moved from MI to OR. Three years after our wedding. Not nine, but still. I was so pissed. I actually packed them because I couldn't decide if I should mail them or not. Almost two years later, I haven't because I chickened out. So, five years.
you know what needs to be done. i double dog dare ya
I know you're right. I'm just stuck on the to explain or not to explain train.
Make sure you use FOREVER stamps so they can't tell whether it's 32 or 44 cents postage. Maybe the post office lost ALL of the thank you notes until just recently. It could happen, right?
But how many people (besides me, of course) would Google to check when they first came out? (March 2007) And they did have "special occasion" stamps that came out before then that didn't have monetary values printed on them so there's that argument too if they're pretty wedding-y ones.
H and I were cleaning out the basement a few weeks ago and came across the thank you notes for his side that I wrote, addressed, and stamped.
He insisted that he wanted to write his OWN thank you notes (oh please!) and that he would take care of it. A few weeks later, knowing mine had long since been sent, he said, "Do you still have the notes you wrote for my side?"
I sighed, said, "Yes," gave him the stack and never saw the stack again, so thought he'd mailed them until recently. And now that explains why, around our 1st anniversary, MIL was acting all bitchy and making comments about folks not being "grateful." I finally realized, having found the stack of cards recently that THAT was was it was all because he NEVER mailed the stupid TY cards and MIL had never heard the end of it.
Eh - I'm not sending, although I think it would be hysterical if you did.
I can't believe this is so common. Note to new wives: Take the thank you's to the post office yourself! Since you, not DH, will be the one people will blame for not getting their thank you cards. This also applies to bday cards, anniversary cards, graduation cards etc. :-)
Post by sparkythelawyer on Jul 8, 2013 8:44:40 GMT -5
Oh dear!
Mail them out to them and say, "This anniversary for you, the gift is paper? Here's some really belated paper!"
Shit happens. I once moved and found a wedding gift I was supposed to give someone for their wedding that had happened three years prior. The wedding had been right when I was moving, and it must have gotten lost in the shuffle. They still like me.
I did the same thing. Just found them a month or two ago, addressed and stamped, but not mailed. It appears the only ones I DID get into the mail were the ones to the out of state people.