My mom is cheap!

How is that for a headline? I might win some sort of publishing award for this post. You have to read all of the post and then make your assumption though. So…

The Thanksgiving Day holiday is around the corner and everyone is getting ready for the turkey, deserts, family & friends. The latter two, of which you do not eat, should get a kick out of this.

My mom usually puts on a fair sized cooking and all for Thanksgiving. All the family and friends stop by and eat, laugh, and catch up on the latest. Last time I was there for the holiday – count was around 80 plus. This year I hope it is the same. Daddy won’t be here since he is over seas again working, but I’m sure we’ll eat a portion for him in there somewhere.

So, for the last few years, mom has sent out invitations to the Thanksgiving Day feast via the old faithful, but slow, United States Post Office. She refuses to use the email for this and uses the statement “well, that’s just cheap” to back her opinion.

Well I am here to prove her wrong. Here goes!!!

First we’ll start with the email method…since I don’t want to ruin the punch line just yet…and I always put my opinion first. LOL

Emailing 80 people to invite them for Thanksgiving would be broke down roughly to cost

We find this by taking the cost of her Consolidated Communications DSL service – $30.00/month – calculate this by taking 30 days in November, which is 720 hours, or 43,200 minutes or 2,592,000 seconds…….anyway….let’s see that would make her DSL cost $.04 per hour.

Let’s say it took her roughly 20 minutes to prepare her email, all prettied up, add all the email addresses to her TO field and hit send. That would cost her somewhere in the neighborhood of a nice copper penny!!!!!!!!

That is pretty cheap…she is right…or is she?????

Now let’s look at the method she used this year.

She purchased some nice little cards that read “Let’s be Thankful”, to which she wrote underneath that “for God, Family, and Friends.” A nice addition I might add.
So let’s assume – for argument sake that she purchased these cards for $5.00 for all 80. Let’s also assume she spent the same amount of time writing on each card and addressing them and stuffing them in the envelope. So we’re already up to five whole dollars….man that would buy just a bit over one gallon of nice gasoline.

BUT WAIT!!!! You say I forgot to figure postage? I’m sorry to inform you that mom did not figure postage in either. She sent the dag-gum invitation to us and the Post Office is now charging me $.41 for receiving the letter. LOL

Now I ask you….what method do you think is “cheap”?

Evidence exhibit A: (click to enlarge and please take notice of the stamp in the right corner….not the stamp that should have been there)