A few months ago I was talking to a friend who lives a couple hundred miles away and one thing that came up was that our kids love to get mail and don't get much. I have a magazine and Zoo books coming but seems like an eternity between mailings. And there is the occasional card or letter from friends or family.

But this same friend sent a chain letter last week. It is harmless, no bad omens or bad luck if you don't do it. It's just for fun. It basically says something like welcome to the sticker club. Send 1 pack of stickers to the person in slot 1. Then move the name in slot 1 to slot 2 and send out the new letter to 6 of your friends. Your 6 friends will then send letters to the current person in slot 1, make a new letter moving your name to slot 1 and your child's name in slot 2 and send their new letter out to 6 of their friends. Eventually your child gets 36 packs of stickers if everybody participated.

Now what I thought would be fun, would be to send our 6 letters as far away as possible. We are in Tennesee. I would love to send it to an English speaking foreign country. DD would be so excited if I showed her that her letter came from Canada or England. She has been to Washington state and gets excited over long distance stuff.

If you would be interested, let me know and I'll post my e-mail so you could send your child's name and address or e-mail me for more details.

It's fun. Your child gets mail. And you can use it as a geography lesson.

And I promise there is nothing bad to it. I don't even forward e-mails that say send to 6 friends or you'll have bad luck or you don't love Jesus. That sort of stuff really annoys me.

I tried to put this e-mail under Kids Stuff and Games but it didn't show. If it shows later, sorry for the duplication.

By Imamommyx4 on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 12:52 pm:

I messed that up.

Your 6 friends send 1 pack of stickers to the person in slot 1, move your child's name from slot 2 to slot 1. Then send 6 letters out to their friends.

By Marcia on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 03:14 pm:

One of my kids got that letter at school. I did it, but she didn't end up getting one pack back. Luckily she forgot about it, so it didn't bother her. I could see where it would, though, if you told your child they were coming.
I hope it works out for you!

How old is your daughter? (not sure if your profile is up to date or not) I could get my kids to send a postcard from Canada if you want.

By Imamommyx4 on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 04:42 pm:

Well, that's a shame. I thought it was such a cute idea. I think I am going to send a pack of stickers to the kids in both spot 1 and 2 to make sure they both get some.

And then I'll probably send out 6 letters. It only costs me 6 stamps and the time to do the letter.

She's 4 1/2. She loves mail and loves to look it up on a map. So if you really want to do that, I have posted my e-mail on my profile for a few days. Drop me a line and I'll respond with my home address for dd.

Anybody else want to do the sticker club thing?

By Luvn29 on Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - 10:47 pm:

I would love to do the sticker club for both of my children if I could find enough people to send them to.

Sounds like a great idea! Keep me posted on it.

My e-mail is ealaney at adelphia dot net

By Imamommyx4 on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 12:32 am:

We'll see how many takers I get. I've got 3 in different parts of the country. If I got 3 more on Momsview from different parts of the country, you can have any after the first 3 if it is okay with the mom who said she'd like to also.

By Feona on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 09:14 am:

Hate to be a spoil sport but I have done chain letters and they don't work. I am afraid people aren't going to get what is they expect them. We had that happen before on the board with the secret Santa and other things too. Some one was selling little socks... If you want to participate please do it off the board.

By Imamommyx4 on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 12:25 pm:

I'm sorry. I don't usually do chain letters because they usually have the message in them that says something like forward this on within so many days or you will have bad luck. I haven't gotten one of those in years but the last one went into the shredder as fast as I could figure out what it was. So I guess I thought everybody is as frivolous as I am. But this one was cute and had no ominous messages and I thought I'd give it a shot. And I wanted to send it to people in other states so dd would get stuff back from all over the place. And what better place to find people from all over the place than Momsview.

Didn't mean to cause a problem. If anyone does want to do it, my e-mail will be on my profile for a little while.

By Imamommyx4 on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 09:44 pm:

Marcia--got the postcard. She thought that was so cool. And I showed her where you lived on a map. Way cool! She said "I've never gotten mail from that far away!

Thanks.
That was so sweet of you.

By Imamommyx4 on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 09:47 pm:

Adena--I didn't follow through on the sticker club thing. I did send stickers to the 2 little girls on my dd's letter, but I didn't send out the 6 letters.
Kinda got bummed out about it. From the negative comments here to the negative comments from my friends, I just decided to not perpetuate the whole thing. DD has forgotten about it. I still think it is a cute idea though.

By Bobbie~moderatr on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 10:38 pm:

It is a cute idea but chain letters do not typically work the way they are set up to... and Feona is correct, we have had issues with things like this on the board in the past. People sign up or agree to "play". Then when it comes down to it they don't or they don't play the way they are supposed to and someone's feelings end up hurt every (EVERY) time. So we ask that things like this be handled off the board because even though we aren't involved in the banter between the members we are still blamed when things fall apart..

By Marcia on Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 11:26 pm:

Wow, that sure took forever! Glad she got it and enjoyed it.

By Imamommyx4 on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 04:49 pm:

It's okay. I just wanted to let Adena know why I never got in touch with her. Even my friends here dogged out the idea. So I just let it go.

By Luvn29 on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 05:41 pm:

No problem! I completely understand. I figured it was something like that and didn't think twice about it. Too bad everyone can't be as good hearted as you, then we wouldn't have to worry about the ones who spoil the good things.

By Breann on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 07:02 pm:

We've done the sticker chain several times. So far, out of all the times we've done it, we've only received one pack in return. And, my kids weren't even that interested in it, lol.

I hope you have better luck!

By Imamommyx4 on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 12:01 am:

Marcia--BTW dd was looking at that postcard again, today. And just as matter of factly as possible, she announced that we needed to go to Canada next year on our vacation. They must me nice people!

See ya next summer!?!?

By Marcia on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 01:25 pm:

Sure, come on up!!