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Though I’m a fan of e-cards, and Facebook’s birthday list has saved my behind a few times, I do love an old fashioned hand-written card. They’re personal, special and you can’t delete them. If you love sending cards the old fashioned way, you’ll love JackCards.com.

THE FREEBIE:

Three lucky MommaSaid readers will win a $20 gift card to Jack Cards!

WHY THAT’S COOL

Founded by two friends—Katherine Santer and Kim Dowds- Jack Cards is designed for busy people who value sending a handwritten birthday, anniversary or ‘miss you’ card but find it hard to get to a card shop or post office on time. In just three simple steps, you can rest easy, knowing that you’ll never miss another holiday, anniversary, graduation or friend’s birthday again.

First you sign-up as a Jack Cards member (FREE!) and add important dates. Then, browse the online store and pick the perfect cards – everything from modern designs to hilarious observations, beautiful creations and kid-friendly styles. Finally, you select your address and stamp options. Jack Cards remembers important dates for you, addresses and stamps your envelopes and delivers each card to your home or office, just in time for you to personalize and send.

“A handwritten card can be the simplest yet most memorable way you can share a moment, a thought, a toast with a friend – a paper greeting card is a very personal gift that can be kept and cherished for years,” said Katherine Santer, Co-Founder of Jack Cards. “Jack Cards makes it easy for people to surprise and delight their friends with uniquely hip, witty and beautifully crafted cards they wouldn’t find in the local drugstore.”

Jack Cards makes it easy to keep our etiquette in check and stay thoughtful despite our busy days.

HOW TO ENTER: Leave a comment under this blog post telling us who you’d send actual paper greeting cards to for your chance to win. Three winners will be chosen at random by Random.org.

DEADLINE: Monday, March 15th at noon ET.

OPEN TO U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY. ONE ENTRY PER E-MAIL ADDRESS. (MULTIPLES WILL BE DELETED.)

Note: MommaSaid received no swag or goodies beyond the giveaways for the winners. She’s just nice that way.

I hate to start a sentence this way, but I’m going to: I remember when…I produced a video for one of my high school classes, and I had to cut with scissors and Scotch-tape together the film to edit it. The “soundtrack” involved me hitting the tape recorder at the right time when the film projector started up.

Ah, the 80’s. They were the dark ages of home video.

In the end, I made a crudely edited video, shot at my school and set to The Ramones’ “Rock and Roll High School.” No dialogue or voiceover. No fade, no wipes, no YouTube.

So you can imagine how excited I was when I shot this video with a very cool Flip Video that comes with editing software. As a spokesmom for Coinstar, it was my job to show how you can use the Coinstar machine to turn coins into gift cards for free. The video was as easy to use than the Coinstar machine. In fact, I even employed several children to shoot the video for me, including my boys and my 14-year-old neighbor, Vanessa.

I’m so happy about how it came out that I’m giving away the Amazon giftcard for $90.16 that you see in the video at the Coinstar Halloween Tweet-Up on Wednesday night between 5 and 7 p.m. PST (That’s 8-10 p.m. for us East Coasters.) Coinstar is also giving away a bunch of gift cards, so Tweet-Up with us by using the #Coinstar hashtag and you could win. You can follow me @JenSinger and Coinstar @ChChing. I’ll be giving out Halloween saving tips, too and sharing Halloween war stories.

Meanwhile, here’s my new video, minus The Ramones. (For some reason, when I uploaded it to YouTube, it got a little echoey and I don’t know how to fix it. But hey, it makes “Funkytown,” which was playing in the supermarket when I was at the Coinstar machine, sound even sillier, which is a plus.)