"When the season's greetings start rolling in, tally up the points for each card you recieve and check your holiday karma"
Gain Points when you recieve cards from:
- Dentist, insurance agent, hairdresser, dry cleaner, mailman +0.5
- Your own mother +0.5
- Another Relative +1
- Friend via e-mail +0.5
- Your boss +1
- Friend you see at least once a week +1
- Above, with reference to an inside joke +3
- Long-distance friend, devoid of any personal message +2
- Above, with personal message of at least three lines +5
- Anyone who includes a handwritten personal note of more than five sentences +5
- Long-lost who hasn't been heard from in 20 years +10
Lose Points when:
- Card and envelope are same piece of paper -1
- Signature is imprinted rather than handwritten inside card -2
- Photo is of a helpless pet in a holiday costume -3
- Your name is spelled incorrectly -4
- Card plays annoying music that you can't turn off -4
- Card is the same one you recieved last year -6
- Return-address label was provided by charity to which sender may not have actually contributed -7
- Family newsletter contains words such as gallbladder, spleen, and gout -8
- Family newsletter is from ex who is (not so) subtly gloating over his recent wedding and cushy new job -10
- Long lost friend who hasn't been heard from in 20 years asking for money or a place to live -20
Bonus Points:
- Gilded envelope +0.5
- Handwritten return address +1
- Card in which all family members appear to have signed their own names +2
- Newsletter or family photo in card +2
- Card with moving parts +3
- Extremely clever handmade card +4
- Oversize card requiring extra postage +5
- Card sent from foreign country +6
- Newsletter with humor at progeny's expense +8
- Card with check, cash, or gift certificate +20
Even if it is just me particpating I will post my scores periodically :)
