A mom rushing to get everything done in time for Christmas ordered a bundle of personalized holiday cards to send to friends and family—only to realize too late that she had made a hilarious mistake.
Jessi Way, 38, lives in Indianapolis, and recently ordered 80 Christmas cards featuring a photo of her family to send to loved ones.
It was a sweet idea: a photo of the entire family, all dressed up, with snowflake decorations on the side, and words wishing everyone a “Happy Holidays from the Way family.”
Except, as Way revealed in a viral video to her Instagram account @thegoodwrench, there was one small issue.
She wrote: “POV: Your holiday cards arrive…You forget to change the stock last name on your Christmas cards. So now we’re the Sinclaires.”
She showed off the holiday photo of the family of five, before zooming in to where it was signed off by the “Sinclaire” family.
She told Newsweek: “Reordering never crossed my mind. This season is already full of juggling kids, schedules, and holiday to-do lists, and I was not willing to pick that battle!”
And so, “when I first saw the cards, my immediate thought was, ‘This is fixable,’ and I grabbed a Sharpie.”
The video went on to show Way crossing out “Sinclaire” on the cards, and instead writing, in all-caps: “WAY”.
She wrote in the caption: “Accidentally ordered all 80 of our Christmas portraits with the STOCK last name Sinclaire. And no, I am absolutely not reordering them because these holiday cards already cost roughly one mortgage payment.”
She added: “So if you get a Christmas card from the Sinclaires, just know it’s actually from the WAY family… just a busy mom over here doing her freaking best this holiday season.”
Instagram users were in stitches, awarding the video more than 30,000 likes, as one commenter predicted: “This is going to be everyone’s favorite Christmas card this year!”
Others shared their own stories, with one revealing: “This year my family are the Harrisons! We have been cackling laughing about it since I mailed out the cards and didn’t notice! Someone else had to tell me!”
“I know someone who did this like 4 years ago. Now they send it out every year with the wrong last name,” another commenter wrote, as one declared: “I vote on using the stock name every year as a new tradition!”
And one joked: “From the ‘Your Text Here Family.'”
Way told Newsweek: “The comments on the video have been hilarious, with so many people sharing their own holiday mishaps and adding to the fun.”
She added that she has sent the modified version out, as “I knew our friends and family who would receive the card would get a good chuckle out of it.”
Billions of holiday cards are sent around the world each year, with people in the United States sending a whopping 1.3 billion Christmas cards annually, according to Hallmark.
USPS said it was gearing up for the festive rush, with this week marking the start of the “the busiest of the year”.
To ensure post arrives in time for the big day, the post office recommends sending mail by the December 17 for first class to the contiguous U.S, December 18 for priority mail, and December 20 for priority mail express.
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