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[quote=Anonymous]I was raised to write thank you notes and made my kids do it for many years -- For example, we would open Christmas gifts at grandma's house, with lots of verbal thanks, and I would be writing down everything the kids received so that they could write a note when they got back home.   Somewhere along the way, I stopped making them write notes if they opened a gift in person, with thanks given in person.  Maybe I just got lazy, but I think it has something to do with how the notes grandma writes make me feel -- as others have mentioned, no matter how "folksy" she writes them,  they leave me cold, with an overly-formal, stilted, distant, and obligatory feel.  And this is going to sound awful and I'm not sure why it is the case, but I find writing them to be such a chore, that often I would prefer never to have received the gift rather than have to write a note....  I still stress thank you notes in certain situations (we write notes to grandma for birthday gifts received in the mail, for things like making a special trip to see one of the grandchildren, etc.).... I don't know, I was just thinking about this in the last few days, thinking maybe I should make us all write grandma notes again.   Although they have a pretentious feel to me coming from a very close family member, she clearly believes in them and so presumably appreciates (and expects) them.      [/quote]

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