Contact Page For Official Archive of Papa Ted's Putz House Pages

Note: This is an archive of "Papa" Ted Althof's online tribute to cardboard Christmas "putz" houses and their history. At Ted's request, this archive was established in early 2012. Except for critical updates and announcements, it will remain as Ted left it in October, 2012.
For more information, please scroll to the bottom of the page.

- "Papa Ted's Place"
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Contact Us With Questions, Corrections, etc.

Many months before October 29, 2012, when "Papa" Ted Althof succumbed to illness, he asked Paul Race to keep an archive of his site so his life's work would not be lost with him. Ted was delighted to see the archive in place, and he interacted enthusiastically on the forums of CardboardChristmas.com, which hosts this archive.

During his lifetime, Ted put his personal e-mail on several pages of the site, even though he might take a while to get through the spam to answer real questions. To be honest we don't have Ted's expertise, but we wanted to maintain communications with fellow hobbyists. So we've established this page for folks' questions.

We want to hear from you. We want to answer your questions. Please use the following form to get in touch with us if you have any questions about our site or if you wish to join our forums or receive any newsletters or mailings.

Unfortunately we get hundreds of fake contacts a week from scammers, spammers, and would-be trolls, and we have found ourselves wasting time on people who are more interested in finding a “back door” to our site than they are with getting answers to questions about putz houses and related topics. So the form below asks for real information. Also, knowing what country you live in is important, since many products people ask us about aren’t available everywhere, or were different, say, in Europe than the “same” product in the U.S.

In addition we get a lot of unrelated questions through this form, so we have posted a brief "Frequently Asked Questions" list to address the most common questions we get every holiday season.

Frequently Asked Questions

How Much is My Collectible Worth?

How Can I Get Help for My Family at Christmas?

How do I Sign Up for the Free “Christmas Times” Newsletter Only?

How do I Apply for Membership in the CardboardChristmas discussion forums?

Will You Send Me Money?

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Note: The form software will sometimes allow incomplete or fraudulent responses to get through. Since this almost always indicates a scammer/spammer/troll, we delete all incomplete or fraudulent responses immediately without any feedback to you. So please enter all required fields accurately.

Paul Race and the other contributors of Cardboard Christmas.

Please contact us using this form. If you ask any questions, we'll try get back to you within 48 hours.

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Thanks for getting in touch. When you hit the "Submit" button, an e-mail will be sent to us. If you asked any questions we will get back as soon as possible.

To paraphrase Dickens, Ted was a man who:

honored Christmas in his heart, and tried to keep it all the year.

I don't think there is a more fitting tribute than to follow his example.

Paul Race, Howard Lamey, Maria Cudequest, Nan Corby, Jack Ahearn, Linda Starek, Tom Hull, Antoinette Stockenberg, Lynn Disley, Lissa Leto, and the rest of the CardboardChristmas.com family.

To return to the Papa Ted's Place Archive Home Page, click here.


Note: This archive was set up at Ted's request in early 2012, and, except for critical updates and announcements, will remain as Ted left it in October, 2012. The archive is kept online with the help of volunteers from the following affiliated sites and resources:
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