What I do amore01 is send cards (friend-ship, love, encouragement, Birthday, just for fun), with a detail in it, maybe a picture or a chocolate, or 20 bucks, depends of my friend, nowadays we only use the e-mail and e-cards for everything, but I think sending paper cards with a nice detail, its a very important way to say, thank you or you are my friend, or you mean very much to me. And it will last forever and ever.
I wanted to share this... Our neighbor from across the street invited our family to a Christmas tea one year. Just us and their family and their parents from out of town. An informal gathering. A day later, we received a Thank you card, with a hand-written message thanking us for sharing that time with them. I thought it was the most gracious thing for a hostess to do. It has stayed in my mind all these years.
Unfortunately, 9/11 claimed the father and this lovely family is no more. So sad.
If its an elderly person and catholic I would send them a mass card. There are mass cards that you send to a family member when someone dies expressing sympathy and having a mass offered for them. But there are mass cards which offer up a mass for the recipients attentions. So don't do what I done once and mixed them up. As justice14 says, I too like to send cards with an Irish flavour and a Gaelic greeting. But to all my protestant friends its usually a Christmas card with a handwritten message. :)
The Irish words for 'Thank you' are 'Go raibh math agut'.Its pronounced more like 'Gurrimotagut'. If you want to REALLY thank someone,you'd say-Go raibh MILE math agut,which means 'A thousand Thank You's.It seems to be quite common here to thank people in irish.I like irish,and its fun to use it to say thank you.
Sometimes if I am very grateful to someone,I don't know how to thank them!When my friend Hayley gave me the gerbil brothers,I didn't know how to thank her,but she was glad just to be my friend!
No need to say thank you to a person who had done favor to us. Wait wait my dear friend loll, let me complete, just reciprocate your gratitude by hugging him. If the person is a girl, I shake hand loll.
I do remember the help given and reciprocate when he is in need. That's my way of saying thank you loll
I say thank you a number of ways; a little card, a hug, phone call, email, special lunch/dinner, send a small gift, or just plain "THANK YOU - I treasure your friendship"! At Thanksgiving at our house, we put everyone's name on a small piece of paper, fold it in half, place in a basket and everyone draws a name. We then take turns telling "that special person" WHY they are so special to us. Our family doesn't do this often enough during the year and sometimes we have a few teary eyes but such a wonderful day to remember!
My heritage is Vietnamese. I think the most important thing I've been taught as a Vietnamese kid is that honoring your family/parents is most important. Supporting your parents and being thankful to them is very important. After all they are the ones that raised me and gave me a good childhood.
But otherwise you express your thanks by helping most who are deserving of help. Those who help other will always get help.
BTW the word for thank you is "cam on" I can't but the right accent marks in though....
Thank you-being there for someone; not so much buying stuff; thinking about someone; helping someone; telling a person how mush you care; doing favors for that person; handmaking gifts for them; cooking for them; being there when they call upon you; and most of all, Saying Thank you.
When I recieved something from my friends, my boss, my coleagues, my relatives I always say Thank you them as a sign my gratitude and appreciation for the efforts and things they had given to me
To show gratitude, one can send thank you cards or can say it verbally. There are many types of thank you notes depending on the occasion and the recipients. A thank you notes can be used for any occasion no matter it's a big event or just a communion.
