I feel like my routines are still developing, but definitely there are some.
First of all, I only take addresses and prepare mail on weekend (either Saturday or Sunday) unless I have promised to send something asap. This is mainly because I am limiting the amount of money I use for postage and cards and also because I really don’t have time after work.
Next, for some reason unknown to me, I have to clean the kitchen first. I do not sit in kitchen nor do I see kitchen when I write postcards but kitchen has to be cleaned. The rest of the house can be one big mess, that doesn’t matter at all.
Then I will draw all the addresses at once (because I like to have the row of numbers). Looks like this weekend it will be 5 official cards + few private swaps to fix. After I have got all the addresses I can take, it is time for the card selection.
That will go like this: 1. read profile, make mental notes about possible matching cards 2. check if they have got cards from Sweden before. 3. If yes, check which kind they have got. 4. Check the favorites, first from Sweden and then 1 or 2 pages of all the favorites to get an idea of what they like 5. Select a card from the pile. Sometimes I am able to match the profile, sometimes not so well. Unfortunate it is hard to find cards here so there isn’t always lot to pick from.
I will select all the cards first before I start to write. Once I am done I will start to write the cards starting from the latest picked address. Deciding what to write is a whole another topic, but anyway I will write the card, add address and the id-number, and finally stamp(s). Just like with cards, I don’t really have much of different stamps to pick from. There is only so many designs available and I try to order stamps only once per month to keep count on how much I am spending (so basically the cards from the beginning of the month has better chances to get profile matched stamps than the ones at the end of the month)
And then it is just to scan the cards, add pics on the site, place the cards on neatly pile on the hat shelf so I remember to take them with next time I go out with dogs.
So overall, very simple routines. I just don’t get that part with kitchen, but I guess it is the routine now. At least it gets cleaned.