You’ve got your first real job and you want everyone to know. Well, everyone except your Cousin Freddie, who would just want to borrow some money. You’ve decided to use Vista Print to create announcements about your new job, but now you need a few pointers to help you get started. To make a new job announcement you can be proud of, try these suggestions:

• Choose announcements that have a similar new beginnings theme. Business announcements and graduation announcements are both easily altered to make an announcement about a new job. Use the advanced editing feature to tweak the layout or change colors to make the design suit your theme and style.
• Coordinate your announcements to match your business cards and include a business card complete with your new title in the announcement envelopes. This way, doting friends and family members can refer to the card to get the title right when they are bragging to that kid who bullied you in school about how well you are doing.
• Consider shopping for coordinating letterhead paper, return address labels and other professional stationary needs at the same time. This way, you won’t have to struggle to remember which fonts or colors you used when you need these supplies at a later date.

As you prepare for the exciting move to your new home, you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of the work you need to do. On top of checking that skinny cupboard beside the stove to be sure someone packed the cookie pans and doing a quick drywall repair job because Uncle John was in a hurry to pack the headboard up before the Super Bowl game started, you just realised you need to send moving announcements. You don’t have time for this! Before you start panicking, try these tips for successfully sending announcements:

1. Pull out the Christmas card list. If you feel like someone is important enough to send a Christmas card to, he or she is probably going to be on your moving notification list, too. If you’re organised enough to have the Christmas list computerised so you can print mailing labels, your life just got a whole lot easier.
2. Once you know how many announcements you’ll need, add a few more to your order. Otherwise, you’ll be mailing your very last card when you realise that you met Sue and Bob after last Christmas and they aren’t on your mailing list.
3. If you are planning to throw a housewarming party, take a look at VistaPrint’s invitations before you put finalise your order. You can save postage by including the housewarming invitations with the moving announcements of the people you are inviting. 

You want to scream it from the rooftops. You’re finally graduating and you’ll never have to sit through Calculus again. However, when your mom brings the graduation announcements up you feel a bit uncertain. Isn’t that kind of tacky? Won’t everyone just think you are just after a gift? Actually, letting everyone know they don’t need to feel obligated to send a gift when they receive an announcement is fairly simple. Just tell them. Try one of these ideas for getting the message across:

1. A hug and your sincere congratulations are the only gifts I need.
2. Please feel free to give me your valuable advice as I prepare for college.
3. I like presents as much as the next person, but this is not a thinly veiled request for gifts. I just want you to celebrate my achievement with me.
4. Want to give me a graduation gift? Great! Don’t want to give me a graduation gift? Great! However, feeling excited over my good news is mandatory!
5. Instead of sending me graduation gifts, please give a small contribution to Books for Kids or your favorite literacy or school related charity. I want everyone to be able to feel the same sense of accomplishment I feel.