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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2015 21:41:03 GMT
I'll often put in a postcard if I've been somewhere interesting and perhaps write a little note on interesting facts or history about the subject. If the place I've been to does leaflets etc I'll often snaffle a few of those to go in with letters as well I find tourist information centres and libraries are fantastic for stuff like this! I've never sent tea bags through the post....yet!....tho' there is a shop/cafe opened in our town in 2011 which does individual bags of various types so perhaps a visit there is in order Neil went in with his dad once and had a lovely cuppa but I've yet to pop in....even though I walk past it every day when I go to work or the shops! www.baritea.co.uk/
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Post by Mia on Jan 7, 2016 23:22:19 GMT
I've just received a photo print order. So, if I remember, I expect to put a photo or two in letters over the next couple of months! I even had printed some from messing around in Photoshop.
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Post by ladytiger7647 on Jan 8, 2016 3:34:16 GMT
I've just received a photo print order. So, if I remember, I expect to put a photo or two in letters over the next couple of months! I even had printed some from messing around in Photoshop. I love your photos! Especially the ones of the castle! I have all of the ones you've sent me hanging on my dry erase board.
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Post by chojo on Jan 8, 2016 19:23:09 GMT
A friend of mine just sent me a little cardboard fish as a tuck in, I made the mistake of leaving it on top of the letter. It must have looked very realistic as when my back was turned the cat helped herself to it! I now have 3 bits of a fish the 4th is still with the cat and she will not relinquish it no matter how many treats I try to distract her with!
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Post by mailartist on Jan 8, 2016 22:49:40 GMT
A friend of mine just sent me a little cardboard fish as a tuck in, I made the mistake of leaving it on top of the letter. It must have looked very realistic as when my back was turned the cat helped herself to it! I now have 3 bits of a fish the 4th is still with the cat and she will not relinquish it no matter how many treats I try to distract her with! If the mail-eating cat becomes too much of a problem, you can always include "her" as a tuck-in. Problem solved! Now, "who," the lucky recipient . . . ?
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Post by chojo on Jan 9, 2016 9:05:19 GMT
A friend of mine just sent me a little cardboard fish as a tuck in, I made the mistake of leaving it on top of the letter. It must have looked very realistic as when my back was turned the cat helped herself to it! I now have 3 bits of a fish the 4th is still with the cat and she will not relinquish it no matter how many treats I try to distract her with! If the mail-eating cat becomes too much of a problem, you can always include "her" as a tuck-in. Problem solved! Now, "who," the lucky recipient . . . ? I couldn't afford the postage she's a little fatty!
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Post by migo984 on Jan 9, 2016 20:17:15 GMT
I couldn't afford the postage she's a little fatty! Is that the triumphant, Postman Pat and Jess-defeating, Royal Mail-spook stalking, Super-Kitty? :-)
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Post by chojo on Jan 10, 2016 18:57:07 GMT
I couldn't afford the postage she's a little fatty! Is that the triumphant, Postman Pat and Jess-defeating, Royal Mail-spook stalking, Super-Kitty? :-) The very same, she's now the head of the local "cafia" if you get my drift. Not one to be trifled with!
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Post by katiel on Jan 28, 2017 12:49:24 GMT
I know this is an old thread, but since this thread is what got me started on this forum (I've been a lurker for about a month), I thought maybe I should add some of my usual ideas. Here are some of my favorite tuck-ins:
Koolaid packets Stickers Window clings Pixie stix Adult coloring bookmarks Seasonal socks (thin ones) Balloons Small wooden ornaments or shapes Feathers from local birds (after freezing them) Pressed leaves or flowers Trading cards (my sons send Pokémon cards) Sticks of interesting flavored gum
I got some other interesting ideas from this thread that I'm going to try. Thanks, guys!
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Post by Steph Walford on Jan 28, 2017 13:30:09 GMT
I know this is an old thread, but since this thread is what got me started on this forum (I've been a lurker for about a month), I thought maybe I should add some of my usual ideas. Here are some of my favorite tuck-ins: Koolaid packets Stickers Window clings Pixie stix Adult coloring bookmarks Seasonal socks (thin ones) Balloons Small wooden ornaments or shapes Feathers from local birds (after freezing them) Pressed leaves or flowers Trading cards (my sons send Pokémon cards) Sticks of interesting flavored gum I got some other interesting ideas from this thread that I'm going to try. Thanks, guys! Never thought about tuck-ins ... I need to get in the game xx
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Post by eunice on Apr 11, 2017 11:07:36 GMT
I have friends who send me fruit tea, and to be honest, I wish they wouldn't as I don't drink it. But I hate to hurt their feelings by saying so. They obviously think it's nice, but I only drink black tea. Can't abide fruit and herbal tea!
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Post by Mia on Apr 11, 2017 11:35:27 GMT
I haven't drunk all the teas I've been sent. Some have been not quite my taste, but others have been lovely. The first time I had peppermint tea, I did not like it, but the aroma filled the room and that was nice. Sometimes I drink the fruit teas cold and they can be quite nice. I have to be in a fruit-tea-mood for them though.
I keep forgetting to enclose newspaper clippings or going through the ones I have cut out a while ago. Some were quite humorous.
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Post by joy52 on Apr 11, 2017 19:05:07 GMT
I don't do tuck-inns as a rule. I usualy send my letters in a snailmail flipbook or a snailmail tag. Have sent occasional happy mail where I include postcards from my stash, stickers, Post-It note holders or Washi tape,
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Post by penguy on May 31, 2018 3:18:09 GMT
After I had been writing to a pen pal for a while he knew about things I'd done and favorite places. He lives in Australia and I sent a state highway map. He could follow things I was mentioning in the letters. Maps are also great fun to just explore and he had lots of questions about places he had found, strange place names, interesting land forms, etc.. I've also sent recipes. I often include photos, usually not people, but places, flowers, things that relate to my area. I enjoy receiving enclosures as well, I never know what will fall out of a letter.
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Post by atransientlife on Jul 10, 2018 1:11:51 GMT
I recently did this for a traveling journal: vintage, American stamps for all participants. Each received enough stamps to send one letters. The others have done something similar with postcards, hand-made letter-pressed/print items and the like. I think it's neat and relatively inexpensive. For pen-pals, I don't really do this. Aside from stamps and postcards, it's kinda hard to figure out what to send gentlemen. I have stickers, girly postage stamps, washi tape; I don't think they'll know what to do with that stuff. I guess if I ever pick-up an--on-going--gal pen-pal (by chance, it hasn't happened yet), I'll be sending some little extras in the letters. -M
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