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Not to toot my own horn, but I'm awesome with thank you notes. They're out very quick, and I never forget them. I had multiple people tell me how nice my thank you note was after our wedding, so nice that people appreciate all that hard work!

Its because my mom and grandma stop giving gifts if they don't get a thank you, so now I'm paranoid.

No, I suck at it.
I am currently working on my thank you notes from a shower that was on March 10.
I will get them out before it's been a month though... Is that bad?

I send wedding thank yous 2.5 months after the wedding. My brother and his wife did not send them out til it had been an entire year!!

I am. I only write them for birthdays and showers! oh. and for my wedding

I always send a thank you note within a week of receiving gifts. It bugs me when gifts I give go unacknowledged because it makes me wonder if they were ever received!

I was horrible about wedding thank yous! I think I did bridal shower thank yous a couple of weeks later, but wedding tys took me 3 months!

I'm usually awesome with thank you notes. BUT my boss bought us a stroller (yay!) and I'm not sure if it's from my boss or my office--haven't written the thank you note yet and it arrived a week ago. ... EEp.

Oh my gosh I'm so awful. I started mine for my shower and finished about half, but then I was put on bedrest and induced so I haven't finished them yet and he's 6 wks old, I'm gonna send them out with his birth announcements.

I have to do it right away or it kills me. I've been lucky to be having mini-showers, so each shower I have a smaller, more manageable amount to write. From this weekend's shower (with 12 cards to write) I just got them all done today and almost all of them are in the mail.....although it's a long weekend, so they'll be a bit longer than I would have liked. I'm best if I do it the next day.

Nothing will be as hard as the zillions of wedding thank-yous. I think that experience made thank-yous easier for the rest of my life.

I have been ever since we moved to tokyo. It's customary to reciprocate a gift with a thank you card and gift back. So for all the baby presents we received, we had to send out a thank you gift back. There are companies that do all this for you. We sent out a rice in a pink package with LO's name, weight and birthdate. The rice weighed the same as LO's birthweight. It gets pretty expensive with all the gift giving, that it gets to the point where you no longer want to receive any more presents.

@cvbee: I agree. The sooner they're done, the easier it is

I'm HORRIBLE at them. We moved overseas right after our wedding, so a lot of thank-you notes never even got sent. Awful, I know.
I swear I'll be better about them for baby showers and other things.

I'm pretty good about getting them sent out right away because my mom used to hound me about it as a teen.

I'm typically pretty good. I went shopping with my MIL and SIL on Saturday and they bought tons of stuff for our baby and I sat down yesterday and wrote the thank-yous. I think it's really important to send a thank you note and I really enjoy receiving them so I try to be pretty punctual. Our wedding thank-yous took longer than I would have liked but I still had them out in a decent amount of time.

oh, I'm very good at writing them... sending them out is another story...

I'm usually really good but I know there were a few (maybe more than a few oops) gifts that came in in the first few weeks that I never sent a note for. I'm hoping that those people understand just how nuts things were around here at the time and aren't mad about it!

I actually like sending thank you notes and try to be prompt about it. This is one etiquette thing I definitely want to teach our little person. It kind of hurts my feelings when I send a thoughtful gift and never even hear if it was received.