No one writes personalized notes any longer

I send them on fruit.

I’d send my guy a note. He didn’t appear, not my job to do that. I’m perfect.

Dear op,

Fuck off.

Yours truly.

My dentist.

I left a $20 bill on the night stand, what do you want? A love letter!

I received a thank you card for attending a shower and bringing mini mushroom and gruyere puff pastries.

It was even handwritten!

I can just barely write by hand these days. Most of my communicating is through emails and texts. I had to write by hand the other day, and I was appalled at how much my handwriting has decayed -- and it was terrible to start with.

I always send one to my Grindr hookups.

“every time I send someone a thank you, they act like I'm some quaint relic.”

Absolute lie

OP likes to WW herself

R6, may I have your recipe? Those sound more than deserving of a thankyou note!

Why does the overreaching OP presume that "no one writes personalized notes any longer" when she also claims to write them herself?

Do asylum patients have access to computer equipment?

Also, even in the Catholic Church relics can be much less than 50 years old.

If I receive a present (which is rare) I will send a note.

I loved to write thankyou notes as a child & maintained the habit until I stopped receiving gifts because I got so old that everyone had died. I expect it had to do with the fact that I love to write -- fiction, fact, you name it. I know people who seem afraid to write, so it's not surprising that they fail to write thankyou notes, condolences, etc. That's sad, isn't it Samuel Pepys?

Some people are lucky enough to have parents who taught them manners and others were raised by boors.

You keep writing those thank you notes, OP.

I have engraved stationery, too. The matching envelopes are hand-lined with tissue paper. I love the idea that by spending way too much money on paper I rarely use, I am helping to keep a lovely old metier (hand-engraving) alive. I usually use it only for thank you notes when I receive a (these days, very rare) gift and for writing letters of condolence to the families of people who die. People seem taken aback by the thank you notes, but genuinely touched by the letters of condolence.

OP - where do you order your stationery? Not many places to buy it, any more, and it can be ferociously expensive. And yet, *sigh* so pretty...

r11 I can't really take credit for the recipe (as I found it online and thought it looked scrumptious), but I will certainly provide a link. Everyone LOVED these! I made some adjustments to the recipe despite it being my first time making these, and I can't imagine it turning out better had I not (see last paragraph for my tweaks). I'll definitely be making these again during the holidays.

Note: I made my own puff pastry instead of buying pre-made from the store. As I've never used pre-made puff pastry, I can't say whether I would recommend one over the other. However, if you decide to make your own puff pastry, I would suggest that you do it a day in advance of making/baking the pastries. Also note that you can freeze these and bake on the day of.

Lastly, the recipe itself only proposes using the puff pastry as just a topper (despite the misleading pic), but I used the pastry to envelope the entire thing into a self-contained "pie" as shown in the pic. Also used more cheese and way more mustard then what the recipe called for and don't skimp and try to use dried thyme. I used fresh from my garden and I think fresh thyme is what makes these so damn tasty.

[quote]OP - where do you order your stationery?

Flax Pen to Paper in Westwood.

R18, thanks a bunch! I agree that fresh thyme seems important -- don't think I'm up to making my own puff pastry but I've always been happy with the store-bought stuff. This looks so good!

OP, I teach college students and frequently write letters of recommendation for them. Over the past ten years, I have probably received a dozen handwritten thank you notes from students (all born between 1994 and 2004 I'd guess).