Do you send Xmas cards?

OU812

Was going to put this in the Christmas forum, but looking for visibility.

We're sending about fifteen in total, mostly family, we've received five so far, with less than two weeks to go. My inlaws are donating to Charity in Lieu of cards & postage this year, but it seems that a lot of people just don't send them.

OneArt

I usually send Christmas anthrax. It's like a Christmas card, except when you open the envelope you get anthrax instead of a card.

Wabbit Ears

Atari Santa with Baby Jesus

The wife does the sending but yea we send cards to friends, family and neighbours

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Meh won't bother this year

Merkin

Atari Santa with Baby Jesus

Yes, love sending them and receiving them. I know a lot of people don't bother but I think it's a warm, fluffy, lovely tradition and I intend to keep doing it. Lovely receiving a hand written message from people you care about and spreading some Christmas cheer, ho ho ho!

gifted

I was going out with a girl in Tipperary a few years back and her mother never sent cards. Every card that she received over the years she kept and kept putting the same ones up over the years . She hadn't received a card in years cos she was so tight. some of the cards were 20 years old

OU812

Now that we're a full week over.

Total tally from non family was 11. I must have pissed off everyone this year.

Mission accomplished.

I usually make my own and send them, but I wasn't organised enough this year so none were sent!

Teyla Emmagan

I am going to go though all of mine later and to write up a list of the people who won't be getting one next year. I was so organised this year I got mine out on the last day of November, got a lot of flack for that!

gomer_pile

I received three , I sent one , a naughty but nice e card to my girlfriend

caustic 1

Stopped sending and so have a lot of others judging by the amount I have got compared to other years. My reason I think it's madness spending money on them and stamps for people to burn in the fire in the new year.

RoboRat

Constant source of argument in my house.

My wife insists on sending to all and sundry whereas I don't give a toss. The usual argument then ensues where she asks me did I send the cards to my family and friends. I say yes, she is happy out until we visit family and friends and she finds out that I didn't send the cards and gets royally pissed off.

I keep telling her I won't send cards ever and she keeps expecting to change my mind.

I didn't get her a card this year either as we said we weren't going to get ourselves anything, I thought that meant ANYTHING but she got me a card and was pissed with me for not bothering to get her one.

Miss Lockhart

Sent around 20 and received around the same. I love them.

MadsL

Wife sent a Christmas round robin letter...was spared the family photo..

Nemeses

Don't bother really. Saying that.. I barely remember to send birthday cards as well!

Pumpkinseeds

We only send to family and close relatives, so we bought a couple of packs from an Animal welfare charity, where all the money goes towards the animals. I couldn't be bothered sending cards to people, especially those I don't see very often.

Teyla Emmagan

caustic 1 wrote: »

Stopped sending and so have a lot of others judging by the amount I have got compared to other years. My reason I think it's madness spending money on them and stamps for people to burn in the fire in the new year.

I spend little or nothing on mine, buy them in the January sales for the next year. Stamps are expensive mind, but I think they're lovely to receive and I love having them up in the house at Christmas.

ProudDUB

Yeah, love to send and receive Xmas cards. Any by cards, I mean an actual CARD. I don't mean a picture of you and your kids that you photo shopped Santy hats onto & then print off at home, on postcard sized glossy paper that can go in the post as is. I mean an actual card, that I can stand up on my mantlepiece and enjoy looking at. I can't stand those post card things. They just scream "I'm too cheap, to buy you a proper card"

And why distant cousins and workmates all think I want to have a picture of them on my mantelpiece I'll never know. It's more of an American thing, but it is starting to creep in here, especially when people start having kids. Either send me a proper, old fashioned card with a picture of a cute little robin freezing its arse off in the snow, or FRO !

Judgement Day

Always send them to family and friends, especially those distant and rarely seen. I even send them to school friends, some of whom I haven't seen in decades, but it's an excuse to keep in touch. The last couple of years I've gone to the trouble of getting them specially printed by Vistaprint but belt tightening this year saw me purchase some ISPCA ones instead - not the most inspiring selection but at least the money went to a good cause.

Menas

I send them, but only to thoese who send to me.

As a 'joke' one year I sent every one the card they had sent me the previous year with their message crossed out and mine added.

No one got the joke.

MJ23

I send 5 or 6 Christmas cards. I have never seen an Xmas card, so, no I don't send Xmas cards.

anncoates

Have a (lovely) American friend who always sends a happy holidays card with various staged very idyllic family shots of her and her husband and kids.

Myself and my wife are always joking that we'll make our own reality version: shots of a torn and destroyed couch, broken toys, me chasing my son around the sitting room shouting at him while another son hangs from the curtains etc.