Christmas Cards

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 17-12-2014 11:49AM #1

Just wondering if Christmas cards are becoming a thing of the past, or do people still send them? I send about 20 but my mother sends tons of them and gets tons back.

kneemos · 17-12-2014 11:51AM

Camille Odd Tourism wrote: »

Just wondering if Christmas cards are becoming a thing of the past, or do people still send them? I send about 20 but my mother sends tons of them and gets tons back.

Just keep the one's she has and save the postage.

Badly Drunk Boy · 17-12-2014 11:52AM

I try to avoid sending any. If somebody sends me one, I'll usually reciprocate but at the last minute so they'll probably only get it after Christmas. Definitely no more than 5.

The recession was great for getting people to reduce the number of cards they sent...

mrsbyrne · 17-12-2014 11:55AM

I think its the biggest load of nonsense ever. It was lovely years ago when not everybody even had a house phone. You got a card from Carmel and Paddy who used to live next door before they moved to Borrisokane and your happy that their both this side of terra firma. Good news. Now your daughter is friends with their daughter on facechat or whatever it is and you know what Paddy and Carmel had for their dinner last Sunday so what's the point?

One eyed Jack · 17-12-2014 12:07PM

mrsbyrne wrote: »

I think its the biggest load of nonsense ever. It was lovely years ago when not everybody even had a house phone. You got a card from Carmel and Paddy who used to live next door before they moved to Borrisokane and your happy that their both this side of terra firma. Good news. Now your daughter is friends with their daughter on facechat or whatever it is and you know what Paddy and Carmel had for their dinner last Sunday so what's the point?

I can understand it from that point of view alright. I sent all my cards last week, I'm not on Facebook or whatever, but I was fairly miffed when I got a text message from my brother saying "thanks for the card". I just thought "it would have been better if he hadn't texted at all!".

I still like to get postcards and exchange letters with my friends abroad, but it's definitely dying out as people are made aware through social media of practically every waking moment of their friends and families lives. Reading a status update just isn't the same as reading a card or a letter, and I'm not usually the sentimental sort...

whitewave · 17-12-2014 12:17PM

I usually never send them or give them to people, but a few close friends moved abroad this year and won't be home, so decided to send them a card to let them know I'll miss them over Christmas.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 17-12-2014 12:21PM

Some people I know seem to see them as a popularity contest which I don't really understand, as half the cards you get are dutiful ones from aunts and cousins and in-laws, or neighbours sending you one because you sent them one.

cassid · 18-12-2014 12:57AM

Children swap all the little cards now, spent 3 hours with them writing out names last night, total pain. Hallmark must be going into the schools on the sly, telling children how lovely it is to say it with a card.

Cantremember · 18-12-2014 01:02AM

They're funny. I get them from relatives and there's pictures of camels and stars and stuff. There's a baby that glows in the dark and ISIS type dudes with mysterious boxes.

vicwatson · 18-12-2014 01:15AM

I f****n hate writing christmas cards....I hate paying 68c to post the bastarding things too

vicwatson · 18-12-2014 01:16AM

whitewave wrote: »

I usually never send them or give them to people, but a few close friends moved abroad this year and won't be home, so decided to send them a card to let them know I'll miss them over Christmas.

Sap

JaseBelleVie · 18-12-2014 01:24AM

I try to avoid sending them if I can. If I forget someone, they'll be all "offended" and I don't need an additional pain in the ass than the ones I already have!

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