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Interesting Christmas Card Facts

As Christmas approaches, your mailbox becomes increasingly full of festive cards from your loved ones and perhaps some ghosts from your past. Although we appreciate the sentimentality, Christmas cards have become somewhat expected. If you forget to send Mom a card this year, you better believe you'll hear about it. Christmas cards can sometimes become more of a chore than a joy. Here are some interesting tidbits about this postal tradition to get you in the scribing mood.

The first Christmas card was made in 1843 in London for Sir Henry Cole
The first Christmas card was commissioned by an English artist by the name of John Calcott Horsley by Sir Henry Cole. The card's message wished Cole's friends a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. The trend caught on, and by 1860, Christmas cards became an English standard.

Christmas cards are Valentine copycats
Some of the earliest Christmas cards, dating back to the 1850s, are nearly identical to Valentines that were produced during the same time period. Card makers simply replaced Valentine motifs with Christmas images, such as birds.

There are around 3,000 card manufacturers in the United States.
Competition in Christmas card manufacturing is fierce. The industry can be segmented into smaller, family-operated companies and large corporations.

The biggest card-sending holiday is Christmas
Christmas has beat Valentine's Day as the biggest card-sending holiday. Somewhere around 2 billion Christmas cards are sent each year.

Hallmark has more than 2,700 Christmas card designs
Hallmark.com, a leading card manufacturer, has more than 2,700 Christmas card designs including boxed varieties, singles, singing cards, over-sized cards and more.

It is estimated that women purchase around 80 percent of all greeting cards
Women are also more likely to buy their cards in bulk, and pay attention to the price. Men tend to focus on one card, and price is not a major purchasing factor, according to the GreatingCard.org.

Around 500 million e-cards are sent each year
In this digital era, e-cards are becoming increasingly popular. Regular greeting cards are still more popular, with more than 7 billion sold each year, but that doesn't stop greeting card manufacturers from shaking in their boots. Card makers advertise the impersonal qualities of e-cards to deter growth of online card sending.

The White House didn't start sending Christmas cards until 1953
President Eisenhower was the first to send "official" White House Christmas cards in 1953. Now, the White House sends more than 1.4 million cards. (And you thought YOUR list was long!)

Christmas card prices are usually between 50 cents and $10
It's a wide scale, but most cards fall between 2 and 4 dollars. Cards with special features such as song and animation are at the top of the price scale, while simple cards and boxed varieties are less expensive.

The most expensive Christmas card was sold for $40,000
The very first Christmas card aforementioned, sent by Sir Henry Cole, was sold at an auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK in 2001 for the equivalent of 40,000 USD. (That should make you feel better about your Christmas card spending.)

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How did the tradition of putting lights on your house for Christmas start?

I have always wondered why we put lights on our houses at Christmas time. I wanna know who started the trend and why and when did people start doing it, and what is it's significance?

The first known electrically illuminated Christmas Tree was the creation of Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison. While he was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, a predecessor of today's Con Edison electric utility, he had Christmas tree Light Bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his Christmas tree, which was hand-wired with 80 red, white and blue electric indandescent light bulbs the size of walnuts, on December 22, 1882 at his home on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Local newspapers ignored the story, seeing it as a publicity stunt. However, it was published by a Detroit newspaper reporter, and Johnson has become widely regarded as the Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights. By 1900, businesses started stringing up Christmas lights behind their windows. Christmas lights were too expensive for the average person; as such, electric Christmas lights did not become the majority replacement for candles until 1930.

In 1895, U.S. President Grover Cleveland proudly sponsored the first electrically lit Christmas tree in the White House. It was a huge specimen, featuring more than a hundred multicolored lights. The first commercially produced Christmas tree lamps were manufactured in strings of multiples of eight sockets by the General Electric Co. of Harrison, New Jersey. Each socket took a miniature two-candela carbon-filament lamp.

From that point on, electrically illuminated Christmas trees, but only indoors, grew with mounting enthusiasm in the United States and elsewhere. San Diego in 1904 and New York City in 1912 were the first recorded instances of the use of Christmas lights outside. McAdenville North Carolina claims to have been the first in 1956. The Library of Congress credits the town for inventing "the tradition of decorating evergreen trees with Christmas lights dates back to 1956 when the McAdenville Men's Club conceived of the idea of decorating a few trees around the McAdenville Community Center." However, the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree has had "lights" since 1931, but did not have real electric lights until 1956. Furthermore, Philadelphia's Christmas Light Show and Disney's Christmas Tree also began in 1956. Though General Electric sponsored community lighting competitions during the 1920s, it would take until the mid 1950s for the use of such lights to be adopted by average households.

Over a period of time, strings of Christmas lights found their way into use in places other than Christmas trees. Soon, strings of lights adorned mantles and doorways inside homes, and ran along the rafters, roof lines, and porch railings of homes and businesses. In recent times, many city skyscrapers are decorated with long mostly-vertical strings of a common theme, and are activated simultaneously in Grand Illumination ceremonies.

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