{"id":16983,"date":"2015-12-18T16:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymouse.com\/?p=16983"},"modified":"2015-12-18T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:32:50","slug":"get-minted-for-the-holidays-plus-a-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/18\/get-minted-for-the-holidays-plus-a-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Minted for the Holidays {Plus, a Giveaway!}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I&#8217;m gifting and giving with Minted.com this holiday season, which definitely means New Years cards, personalized art, calendars, and, of course, a giveaway for you. <\/em><script async defer data-pin-hover=\"true\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-lead.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-lead.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-lead-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to tell you a secret. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s December 18th, and I still haven&#8217;t mailed my holiday cards. From LAST year. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. I haven&#8217;t mailed the cards that I printed in November of 2014. This year? I didn&#8217;t even order cards because I was all, &#8220;Yes, I can totally mail last year&#8217;s cards. Never mind that tiny 2014 on the back. No one will care.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Truthfully, I don&#8217;t think anyone will care, and if they do, I don&#8217;t need to know about it because I&#8217;m mailing last year&#8217;s cards. There was this one moment, however, about three days ago, when I realized that I did actually manage to hand out cards to a certain set of people I saw in person last year, and so this year I will have nothing. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-cards.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-cards.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-cards-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No problem. I&#8217;m great at this. You know what they&#8217;re called? <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minted.com\/new-year-photo-cards?it_category=n_seasonal&#038;it_id=c1i1hc&#038;us=holiday\" target=\"_blank\">New Year&#8217;s cards<\/a>. Season&#8217;s greetings cards. I figure the season can extend all the way into January and then some. Get them in before Valentine&#8217;s and you&#8217;re good to go. I should just order now for December 2016. My kids are old(er). I can just stretch their bodies out in Photoshop to make it look like they grew a few inches. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-tableover.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-tableover.jpg 690w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-tableover-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s the gifting going? Are you done? I went to the store the other day because we needed both milk and a birthday gift for this weekend, and I nearly had a panic attack in the parking lot, the aisle, the checkout, the parking lot again. <\/p>\n<p>Where did all these people come from, and what are you buying? Is the reason I don&#8217;t see you here more often on account of the fact that you don&#8217;t actually know how to drive and so don&#8217;t attempt it often?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, as a socially awkward introvert, I should avoid all stores until well into mid-January. Besides, I am historically a bit of a Grinch about Christmas, not because I don&#8217;t like giving my loved ones gifts, but I am practical and idealistic to a fault. I want it to be something they&#8217;ll cherish, not just something I gave them in order to check off a requisite box. <\/p>\n<p>This is where Minted comes in. In minutes of browsing I was able to find gifts for everyone on my list, from my kids right down to my &#8220;what do you get for the person who has everything&#8221; person. And they were personalized, meaningful, and meant to be used. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-packaging.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-packaging.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-packaging-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you need to know: There&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minted.com\/holiday-delivery\" target=\"_blank\">still time to order for Christmas Eve delivery<\/a> with expedited shipping. it&#8217;s even free on holiday cards (use: SHIP) to get them here by the 24th. Let&#8217;s take a look.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-jounral.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-jounral.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-jounral-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technically, I got this for me. These journals get personalized inside and out, and having a dedicated place to take recipe notes is kind of a big deal when my entire desk is covered in sticky notes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-prints.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-prints.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-prints-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lene was super excited to see that I printed this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/5nj_RpJyvv\/?taken-by=foodformyfamily\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram photo<\/a> I took of her at the pool over the summer. I also made a personalized print for my brother-in-law and his newly minted wife and chose an art print for the teen. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-calendar.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-calendar.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-calendar-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To all the people who know my mom: She doesn&#8217;t read my blog regularly, so she won&#8217;t see this unless you ruin it. Definitely do not tell her that I personalized an entire <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minted.com\/photo-calendars?it_category=n_paperie&#038;it_id=c2i6\" target=\"_blank\">calendar<\/a> for her 35th year of marital bliss, complete with wedding photos circa 1981, my dad sporting a faux mullet, and this lovely picture of my baby brother and my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spurandgoad.com\/spur-goad-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">insanely talented sister-in-law<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brihnashmun\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bethany<\/a>, after we climbed a palisade in the Boundary Waters. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-giftwrap.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-giftwrap.jpg 620w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-giftwrap-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re done with gifting, Minted can also supply the gift wrap, the personalized gift tags, and the party decor, from felted garland to paper table runners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-bw.jpg\" alt=\"Gifting and Decorating with Minted.com for the Holidays | FoodforMyFamily.com\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-bw.jpg 690w, https:\/\/crankymouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Minted-Gifts-and-New-Year-Giveaway-bw-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/ps\/8ca2\" data-campaign=\"8ca2\" class=\"promosimple\"><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/api\/1.0\/campaign\/8ca2\/iframe-loader\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Review products and giveaway are provided by Minted.com. Opinions and procrastination tips provided by yours truly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m gifting and giving with Minted.com this holiday season, which definitely means New Years cards, personalized art, calendars, and, of course, a giveaway for you. I&#8217;m going to tell you a secret. It&#8217;s December 18th, and I still haven&#8217;t mailed my holiday cards. From LAST year. That&#8217;s right. 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