I don't have mine set to send notifications of my posts, but email notifications are crazy. Mostly I get them, but occasionally I get a notification sent to an email address I rarely use anymore. I think I did use that as my email before it changed to Houzz, but it is not on my settings now. And occasionally I don't get notifications at all. Plus, I have had a couple of people tell me I need to sey up to message, looks to me like I have, and I certainly get messages from others. But I am technologically challenged.

Surely I'm not the only one????? That feels a bit like persecution, lol. It happened AGAIN today. I had an alert for two new messages. I went through both the old and new inboxes, and the TWO OLDEST messages were showing as new. These weren't even messages I had received, but two that I had SENT...in 2016! This seems to be a glitch in the new mailbox, since it's there they keep reappearing as new. I'm not even going to bother with reporting the issue at this point, as it's basically an exercise in futility. Sooooooooo...if anyone sends me a message and you don't get an answer right away, it's because I'm ignoring the alerts! Apologies in advance. John

I recognized three or four people there, and one in particular that became good friends with my niece. We used to correspond quite a bit as well. I've never gotten the Christmas mass letters, but I would love to. I like any kind of communication from people that I know, and I especially like cheerful information in December. I may have sent a few of these myself, but they were mainly to explain changes of address and not much else. I sent people photos of my house in Cathedral City a couple of years ago with the hope that some would come to visit, but that hasn't happened yet, except for my sister. My mother would get some of the bragging letters from friends or relatives of hers, and she especially did not like them, but I think that is because they made her jealous, which may have been the point of those letters. I think she felt like she was in competition with some of her cousins. I wished she would have kept in better contact with more of her cousins so that I could have seen more of them. I also especially liked reading the letters that our cousins wrote. One in particular was a gold digger, who had divorced her first rich husband (and father of her three children) and had married the president of an Italian steel corporation. She would talk about how bored she had become with flying across the Atlantic between her villa in Venice and the brownstone in Manhattan, plus country house in Connecticut. I only sent seven cards this year, and I used to send a lot more. In the past, I printed the addresses, but this year I hand wrote all of them and inside I wished people health and happiness. Sometimes people call me after they get cards from me, and I like that. This year I bought "money cards" by accident - mainly because they were the only "Seasons Greetings" cards I saw at CVS last week, and so I had to X out the "insert money here" text on the inside - except for two cards in which I inserted some extra Mexican pesos that I happened to have in my wallet. One was a 50 peso note that I thought was pretty, and the other was a 20 peso note that I enclosed with the note: "I think this money may be expired." I did not bother to explain that I had bought the "money cards" by accident, as I decided that that was not necessary. I still liked the cards, and I didn't want people to know how careless I had been when I selected the cards.

@Erica like this I think. If you have email notice set up, you should’ve received an email about this post. I didn’t receive email on your posted question though & I do have it set up in my profile. I did see your post in my notifications list Tagging is entering ’@‘ & choosing the person you want from the drop down list. Only the names of those who’ve responded to that specific thread will appear. Contacting another person outside the thread can be done too but I’d have to play around to figure out how. Also note this site is sometimes quirky in its navigation & response.