How I did Christmas cards for under $30 total

I knew about Pinterest a long time ago... like got my account in Spring 2011.  I'm pretty sure I was one of the first to use Groupon.  I've gotten probably at least $50 in credit from their referral bonuses.
I had Facebook back in the day when you needed an .edu email address to sign up for it.  Before the "news feed" (Can you even remember what that was like??)
I used Picnic forever ago (RIP Picnic... hello PicMonkey) **

And now I'm pretty sure I discovered Cardstore.com.

I follow some coupon blogs that let me in on some good deals... and this was one.  Cardstore.com often runs sales on their cards, I got mine for 75% off.  AND, they send them to your recipient for FREE.   So that means NO time or money spent on stamps, labels, addressing, etc.  I did have to spend an entire naptime (ha! that's totally a mom-measurement of time) putting in addresses in their own website template.  But SO worth it!   I simply selected the date that I wanted to have the cards delivered by... and voila!  I delivered 44  cards for $15.71 total and in under an hour.
And then I ended up ordering 25 un-addressed ones to give to those I didn't have addresses for at the moment for $9.75. So I will have to cough up the money for a few stamps on those.

Funny thing is... I didn't even get the best deal.  Later, they were offering 29 cent any Holiday cards,  So I could have gotten some premium enveloped beauties sent-and-stamped cards for 29 cents instead of my 36 cent 5x7 postcard.   But such is the life of bargain-hunting.

What an awesome idea for any card you want to send!  You can choose the date shipped within one year.... so you could get all your cards sent for the year and never have to think about it again... in under an hour today!

I really don't know how they make their money. Probably because people like me will go and tell people like you and they didn't even pay me to do it.  So you're welcome for telling you about Cardstore.com. And sorry for not telling you before you sent your Christmas cards :)


** let it be known that there are PLENTY of things that I am definitely not the first to know about. The list is MUCH longer for those things.