The Stationers Guild

With this holiday season shaping up as one of the most frugal on record, most holiday shoppers will intuitively pare back their spending.  In some cases they will search for less expensive substitutes and in others they will simply postpone major expenditures.

Personal stationery is an excellent holiday gift for family members of all ages.  It’s never too early to encourage your children to develop their correspondence skills. Both Christmas and Hanukkah are important holidays to communicate with distant friends and family.  Regardless of your current economic situation, most Guild member stores have a wide selection of boxed cards and notes for every budget.

A printed monogram letter for your first or last name on a fold-over note or correspondence card is often sufficient for the younger members in your family.  Alternatively, ask your stationer to personalize the boxed stationery by adding a name or monogram.  In fact, with a minimum of level of technical skill you can do it yourself with an ink-jet printer.  Just make sure that the card stock is marked “imprintable” and the paper is sufficiently light-weight (no more than 96#) to go through your printer.

If your wife or husband is looking for something more substantial, we recommend personalized stationery.  While this is generally a more expensive proposition, you have an almost infinite variety of personalization and printing options.  With so many possibilities, we often recommend during the holiday season to buy a box of stationery and enclose a gift certificate for your spouse to select their own personalized stationery in the new year.  This has two major advantages.  First, your spouse will custom design the stationery that suits their tastes and personality.  Secondly, most of the major stationery lines have sales promotions in January.  Who knows, you may get a free engraving die ($96 value) from Crane & Co. or a free return address on your envelope from William Arthur.

Richard May
Founding Member

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