A Quick Thought on the Lost Art of saying Thank You My Grandma Ruth called them “bread and butter notes”, a quick note penned after a dinner party to thank the hostess for a lovely time. The operative word here is penned. We seem to no longer hand write thank you notes, choosing instead the quick email, text, tweet or facebook post as a way to convey our appreciation. While the handwritten thank you note may have gone the way of the quill pen, saying “Thank you” is always in fashion. I have received several phone calls over the past few years from clients who are certain that their packages were not delivered because no one called to say “thank you.” I have toyed with the idea of enclosing a card in all of the gifts we ship that would say, “Upon receipt of this gift, please call the person who sent it to you and say thank you!” To keep things in perspective, I must admit that it took my son almost a full year to write all the Thank You Notes from his Bar Mitzvah. It was a long and arduous process, but they were hand written …no preprinted, fill in the blank notes for him! We all feel under-appreciated from time to time, so when someone is kind enough to think of us and send us a gift, the least we can do is say “Thank You!”

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