Friday we visited Totally Christmas (the Christmas shop) at San Louis (near to Reeves’ butchers). The people running the shop aren’t the same ones who ran it last year which is reflected in the stock they carry. This year there are a lot more of the small items that you might want to decorate your house and fewer trees.
The good news is that the Christmas shop has a good selection of cards. In previous years, Pam has bought cards in the UK, brought them back to Spain to write and then taken them back to the UK to post. With packs all priced at 2€ a piece in the Christmas shop, it seems hardly worth Pam going to that trouble.
The best value are packs of 40 half decent cards which works out at 5c a piece. Other packs, which have between 8 and 16 cards in them, still represent good value As pensioners, we can no longer afford the Marks and Spencer cards we used to buy! I'd already ordered personalised cards from VistaPrint for close friends and relatives so that cut down the number we required.
The next job is to write the cards and address the envelopes, a job which apparently I cannot be trusted with!
Maybe this year
Before we moved here, the address we were given was on Calle Le Vegan. We had cards printed with that address and sent them out. It was only when we got here that we discovered that our house is actually on Calle Irlanda. I therefore had a new set of cards printed to send out with the first year’s Christmas cards.
Four years later and we were still getting cards with the wrong address on. Each year we identify who the people are and make a point of telling them the correct address. Our fingers are crossed that all the cards are correctly addressed this year.
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