[POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: OT - Christmas cards... brainwave

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I wasn't brave enough to do it but I think you are right and fantastic

for doing it.

Sara xxxx

brownsauce66 wrote:

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> Hi all,

>

> I don't know about you, but I get completely overwhelmed with

> everything that needs doing this time of year.

> I also feel like I'm a different person since autism entered my

> life

> It started with little things e.g. watching all those shoppers with

> their Primark bags desperately rushing up the high street, and

> feeling ever so slightly cynical when I pass by the greeting card

> shop to see it's 'great auntie-in-law day'..... anyway, I decided

> this year to boycott the xmas card thing because 1) I don't have the

> time. 2) It's really expensive - over 20 quid last year. 3) It's

> ecologically unsound. 4) I buy charity cards but even so the charity

> doesn't get 100% after production cost etc.

> So I've told everyone that I'm going to donate the xmas card money

> directly to a charity of my choice, everyone has been really

> supportive of the idea. I decided to give to Treating Autism and The

> Autism Trust. After all, they're charities close to my heart!

>

> I thought I'd share it with you and see if anyone else wants to do

> the same.

>

> Merry Christmas

> Jane and family

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