New Years Ecards

New Year’s Day isn’t quite the hallowed holiday as some others throughout the year are.  Unlike Christmas, there isn’t a great feeling of peace and joy hanging in the air.  Unlike Thanksgiving, New Year’s doesn’t mean cooking a great meal and reconnecting with friends and loved ones we don’t normally get to spend much time with.

           New Year’s does, though, have its share of traditions.  There’s the ceremonial midnight toast, the tradition of kissing the person next to you just as the clock strikes midnight, and, of course, making resolutions.

           What’s funny about New Year’s resolutions is that we mostly known that the lofty goals we set for ourselves—quitting smoking, losing fifty pounds, etc.—are ones we will give up on within the first month or so.  Still, though, it’s fun, and more than a little empowering, to set them in the first place.

           Something my friends and I have started doing, though, is to set goals for the new year that are so ridiculously conceived and easy to achieve, we do it for the sake of the joke, more so than anything else.  Last year, a friend of mine resolved to not eat French Fries on Tuesday—a goal which she has kept (or so she says).  And I resolved to always make sure my shoes were tied when I put them on, rather than just slip them on and dash out the door—a goal which I have not been able to keep.

          However you celebrate or commemorate this New Year’s holiday—whether it be a gathering with friends, or sending free animated e-cards from gotfreecards.com, just be sure to stay safe, have fun, and set reasonable goals.

Christmas Ecards

This year, as the leaves begin to change color and fall from the trees; and as bare walls are covered first with Halloween decorations, then Thanksgiving decorations, and finally Christmas decorations, it’s important to remember the most important people in our lives, and let them know that we care about them, and that we are grateful for all that they do.

Many of us have friends or family members currently serving in the military—people we love who won’t be able to come home for Christmas.  And though they defend our country and our livelihoods overseas without asking or expecting anything in return, that still doesn’t mean it would be anything less than a great idea to do something—anything—for them, to remind them that wherever they are this holiday season, we keep them in our hearts.

There are countless sites on the Internet, taking up collections for care packages—sites so numerous I won’t even bother listing some here.  Other sites—like gotfreecards.com—give you the opportunity to send animated ecards to your loved ones overseas.  You can even chip in some money at various sites to buy our servicemen and women phone cards, so that even if they can’t come home this holiday season, they can at least phone home.

They do so much for us, without asking anything in return.  Let’s all do something for them—even if it’s something small.

The most memorable Christmases aren’t the ones where we get the the shiniest jewelry or the most expensive video games.  The memorable Holiday seasons are those marked by truly unforgettable events.

Case in point: when I was eleven years old, my family decided to shell out some cash for a real tree, rather than use the old plastic one.  Dad and I drove to a Christmas Tree farm, chose the biggest, most expensive tree, and took it home. The whole family had a wonderful evening, securing the tree, stringing up the lights, and then attaching ornaments. 

We all went to bed on Christmas Eve night, and I had just fallen asleep when a loud crashing sound jerked me back awake.  My first thought: Santa hadn’t turned the lights on, and was fumbling around in the darkness downstairs.  Then I heard a “meow” and I knew the true source of the disturbance.

I rushed downstairs, following closely my parents, and what we see in the living room is our beautiful, expensive tree, lying on its side, ornaments scattered about and broken, and our gray tabby cat, Bully, sitting in the middle of the whole mess, with a “What’d I do?” look on his face.

Had I been making animated christmas ecards for gotfreecards.com back then, I would have immortalized the event in a free e-card.  Even still, it’s not something I’m ever likely to forget.  

The next year, we went back to the plastic Christmas Tree, and we never looked back.

Free Thanksgiving Ecards

Thanksgiving often gets lost in the shuffle of late-in-the-year holidays.  Hidden between Halloween and Christmas, it’s not unusual to see Thanksgiving as an inconsequential midway point between the other two holidays, rather than the wonderful day it is in its own right.

Don’t get me wrong: I love buying gifts and decorating for Christmas, and there’s still a big part of me that regrets not being able to dress up on Halloween night and go trick-or-treating.  But Thanksgiving has a special place in my heart, and it always will.

Halloween is about being, if for only one evening, something you aren’t.  Thanksgiving celebrates how much we care about each other, just for being who and what we are.  Christmas is a time to buy gifts and make people smile.  On Thanksgiving, the smiles come just from spending time with those you love.

So this Thanksgiving, don’t forget how important the day truly is.  Maybe you can even send your friends and loved ones free ecards from gotfreecards.com.  Our animated e-cards are the perfect ways to say “I love you, and I’m thankful for you being in my life.”

Birthday Gifts

When I was growing up, I had a friend in the neighborhood whose birthday was on December 27th—just two days after Christmas.  I often told him how unlucky he was, to have a birthday so soon after Christmas: there’s no way he would get enough presents!  Me?  I was lucky, I thought, because my birthday is in the summer, and so my gift-receiving days were spread pretty evenly apart through the year. 

Of course, now that I’m older, I realize it’s not just about maximizing gift-receiving potential, and I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to celebrate a birthday in a snowstorm, rather than at the beach.  The important thing, either way, I’ve learned, is to surround yourself with people you love, and who love you.  That is what makes a birthday special, and not gifts. 

But gifts are nothing to sneeze at, either.  At gotfreecards.com we have free e-cards that you can send to your friends and loved ones on their birthdays.  You can show them how much you care with our animated e-cards, and save money by not splurging on expensive gifts, too. 

Even though I still wonder what a winter birthday would be like, I’m perfectly happy to be able to blow out my birthday candles, and then jump in the pool.

October is sure to be a month of purchases: Halloween candy, costumes, spooky decorations, pumpkins, and admission tickets to the neighborhood haunted house. But money need not be spent on Halloween cards, especially cards at typical stores that have no animation and that still require postage! GotFreeCards.com is the one stop shop for all your card sending needs, Halloween included. There are spooky ecards, wishful ecards, and comical ones like the Competitive Witches ecard, all FREE and all animated. No postage needed as they are sent via the internet to the recipients email inbox, fast and free.

Now is the time to send Halloween ecards, it is early enough in the month that there are still those who haven’t given a thought to Halloween yet. Now is the time to remind them that Halloween is here by sending them your favorite Halloween ecard from GotFreeCards.com. Do you want to scare them silly, make them laugh, or make them ponder their Halloween costume? You can do all these things and more simply by sending them an animated ecard.

So put your money away and browse GotFreeCards.com to check out the awesome Halloween ecard selection; pick as many as you want, write some spooky and funny messages, and email them off! Make sure everyone you know has a faBOOlous Halloween.

Happy Durga Puja

It’s October again it must be time for Durga Puja. It’s that time of the year again when we all take a break from the daily rigors and enjoy the fun and festivities. We dance to the drums, visit the best pandals (elaborate and beautiful tents) in our best attire and thank “Ma Durga” for our good fortune .

But it is also a time to let your closed ones know you really care for them by sending them an ecard. So don’t procrastinate and send a Durga puja ecard today!  All our cards are animated and thus capture the essence of the “dhak” (drums) and the “dhunuchi” (ceramic vessel).  While you are at it send them Halloween eCards too.

Editors Note: Durga Puja is the most important festival in West Bengal, India. Like most other mythological tales it celebrates the victory of good over evil. It is generally celebrated over 5 days in October and most of Eastern India comes to a standstill during the celebration.

Face it: almost nothing is fun when you’re sick.  Television is boring.  Movies are too long.  And books are too hard to concentrate on.  But what always gets a smile, even in the midst of your worst cold, is when friends go out of their way to show they’ve been thinking about you: chicken soup delivered to your door, a concerned phone call, or, now, a free animated  Ecards from GotFreeCards.

Sending free Ecards from GotFreeCards.com is fast, simple, and, of course, free.  Just go to

Get Well Soon Ecard For Your Co-worker

GotFreeCards.com, and browse through our selection of animated Ecards, many of which are specially designed for that friend or family member who’s under the weather.

When you send an animated Ecard to that friend or loved one who’s stuck at home with the flu, you can be sure it will make them feel just a little bit better, to open up their e-mail and know you’ve been thinking about them.  So head over to GotFreeCards today, and pick your  Get Well Soon Ecard.

Happy Halloween

Boo! Did I scare you? No? Well, how about this: if you buy greeting cards from a retail store, you’re going to be set back between three and dive dollars a card!

Halloween’s supposed to be scary, but not that scary!

But have no fear (well, not much, anyway): the e-cards at GotFreeCards are always free. And they’re easy to send to anyone, with just a couple of clicks needed—and you won’t waste a moment searching for the right sized envelope, either. Plus, the cards at gotfreecards.com are animated, making your choice of a free e-card seem a little more thoughtful than even one of those five dollar cards from the store.
Boo! Still not scared. Oh, well. I tried.

The leaves are turning, the night air is chilly, and the wind is stirring up the fallen leaves.  There is fright in the air, costume stores have opened their doors, and the pumpkins are ripe for picking…Halloween is here!  Kids start to dress up in costumes weeks before and visit pumpkin patches looking for the perfect pumpkin with “jack-o-lantern” potential.  Adults start planning Halloween parties and looking for the perfect costume, one that must out-do last years’.  It all leads to the last day of the month, October 31^st, the day every witch, goblin, and ghost has been waiting for!

So while you are shopping online for your family’s costumes head over to GotFreeCards.com and do some early “trick or treating” in the form of free animated ecards. For those you know that are already getting into the spirit, send them a Halloween ecard to celebrate with them!  And for those you know who haven’t even given thought to what they want to dress up as, send them an ecard to jump start their Halloween celebration.  It won’t cost a penny and takes about 2 seconds to send!  All of the Halloween ecards are fantastically animated, so choose them all to send to all of your friends!  And spread the word, tell your friends to go to GotFreeCards.com to send their own Halloween treats!

Halloween Ecards