As the holiday season rolls around, our mailboxes fill up with cheerful Christmas cards and those ever-popular Holiday Newsletters. You know the ones—where every detail is polished and curated to showcase a flawless life. I’ve been guilty of crafting such missives myself, digging through the year to find the highlights and putting a shiny spin on the everyday happenings that probably don’t matter to anyone but me. It’s like sending a selfie, but with words, all dressed up for validation.
Let’s be real, though. It’s exhausting to fabricate the perfect newsletter, only for your friends to smirk at it while feeling inadequate in comparison. So what if we flipped the script and sent out a No-Nonsense Holiday Newsletter instead? Here’s my attempt: