Saving Money With Christmas Cards...

It's that time of year again...time to start thinking about Christmas cards. Buying and sending Christmas cards can be a very expensive tradition.

We used to buy boxes of Christmas cards from the dollar store. But, of course, we still had to buy stamps.

Then, we started having kids, and had to send a picture with our card! :) One year we did the Walmart photo cards, and another year we did the dollar store cards with a picture inside. We have finally settled on the "Christmas postcard" method.

Here's how we do it a little more inexpensively:

We get prints made FREE or almost FREE through deals from various photo printing sites around the web (Snapfish, Shutterfly, etc.), and then send the actual prints as postcards ($ .28 a stamp). They still look great when people receive them, and that saves us from buying photo cards or cards and prints, etc.

I was prompted to think about this because of this great deal from See Here by Fuji Film. Right now, new customers can get 100 FREE 4x6 prints (just pay shipping) by entering the promo code "prints" at checkout. That could easily be all of your "Christmas postcards."

*In case you're wondering, I designed our "Christmas postcard" above using Photoshop Elements. You could easily add text or other objects to your picture through any photo editing software that you may have on your computer.