Sending Christmas cards or not ?

Yes I still send, though as I get older I try and wait will I receive one from someone who I am not sure will still be here!!! I wish I could tell friends not to send to me, as having recently moved into a Retirement Flat there is nowhere much to put them, just makes the place look smaller than it is already, so I dont display them, and wish I could tell friends not to waste their money on me.

Yes you can print of jacqui lawson ecards. It is quite a good idea. You could maybe group the ecards together with a bit of holly and tinsel surrounding them.

I gave to charity on the assumption that I would spend less on cards this year. To find cards that were anyway decent I had to spend rather a lot of money, add to that the cost of postage and we are talking silly sums of money. DH went to post a card to Spain and it cost him £1.47, I was organised and gave my sister her card to carry home in her luggage in October

Can you not print off the ecards? Then prop them up round the room.

I stopped sending xmas cards years ago and I get very few now...why send xmas cards to someone who you never see and only hear from at xmas...
This year I will get even less as I've moved and no one knows my address...lol.. ��

Probably the end of next week. I am not sure what I am doing. I am not keen on the e cards.
I still send to the elderly- I have several who are past sending cards but I send them one with a letter, although several said they much preferred a phone call so I do that instead.

Those that do it online, when do you do it? Anytime in December? Or a few days before christmas?
I havent got to that yet. A lot on my list are quite elderly.

I do sometimes wonder whether christmas card giving will end up skipping a generation Geraldine62, like knitting did.

Gracesgran, I always keep my cards, for crafts, if I don't use them I put them up again! so this may be a solution for your mum,

I am getting fewer as the tradition is dying or too expensive, which is a pity, I have been sending postcards to my Granddaughter as it is the only mail she recieves, she loves them.

For her birthday I bought her thank you cards she can make and stamps and postcards too she loved them, I even gave her an address book filled with all her aunties addresses.

Don't let tradition die out I say but actively encourage the next generations.

'Tis the season to be jolly afterall!

I love the cards and letters- the best part of Christmas!
However the postage is ridiculous now. For the last 2 years I have cut back, doing online and phone calls instead. This year I have gone down the list and emailed anyone that I can to suggest that we do it online- the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
They will die out- the young don't send them.
When you can't even send 2 for £1 it is time to call it a day!

One year I donated money to buy a goat in Africa and e mailed everyone to tell them but still felt bad when they sent me a card. It is the postage that costs so much. Today I wrote most of the cards that have to be posted ( very organised for me) and have cut down a lot but I will still feel guilty if I receive one from someone I missed. For me the e mail cards are not the same. Some local friends do give me cards and I do reciprocate as we all feel it is nice to have them on display. Maybe we should ask people to keep the cards and then e mail saying put up my card from last year, the good wishes still apply.

I love to display them as part of the decorations.

I used to write loads when working but they were hand delivered of course. DH delivers all the local ones. I only post about 10 and always second class.

I'm to old to change. I still send cards (about 100 each year) and it's just like filling the car with petrol. I may moan about the price, but I still do it.

I also send postcards whenever I travel and recently my daughter told me how much my grandchildren love to get them because it's the only mail they ever recieve.

If we must base all the joys of life on the price, giving up a nice glass of wine or a ticket to a concert because it has become too expensive, then we have given up everything.

I'll choose carefully the things I want to do and the price be damned. I'll do without elsewhere.

Have a Merry Christmas and if you're on my list, you'll get a card.

Travelingman.

Stopped sending cards last year. Money goes to a local homeless charity. We phone and email people now. Feel bad but try and get to people befote they send us one.

I am glad to see this thread as I was just beginning to worry about my Mother's cards. For the last few years I have printed off labels for her and she has signed the cards over several days and then I have sent them out.

Last year I felt I was almost bullying her to get them signed. She really didn't know how close to Christmas it was and it was exhausting her just to sign them. Finally, she got a letter after Christmas reminding her that the person she had sent one card to had died a couple of years previously! I should have known but hadn't picked it up .

So, this year I shall check if she wants to send one to the people when cards arrive but otherwise I am not going to put her through that. She does like to get cards though and doesn't want any other decorations up. Has anyone any ideas how to bridge the gap of her getting fewer to enjoy?

I must be the exception then! I actually enjoy writing and receiving cards. Wrote them all today and will post them over the next few days. I know they're expensive to send, and an awful lot of mine can't be hand-delivered, but like Eleanorre, I don't get a lot of joy from receiving e-cards, so I don't send them, either.

Thanks Nonu

Sorry but I hate getting e cards .I feel they are a waste of time as you cannot put them up and are not to my taste. A couple of years ago we duplicated a little note which said we were cutting down on cards but gave our phone number and e-mail address if the recipient wanted to keep in touch .Nobody did reply . I like the local delivery of cards by the B Bs who charge 20p here. I feel the money is well spent with them .

I haven't sent any for over 20 years and have sent the money to charity instead.

SOON, don"t be worrying your mind about it ! In the scheme of things it will pass ! That is my take on it !!

Just crack open the Bailey"s [might be a bit early though ] I will send over to yours, a bottle !! [tchwine] .

Concentrate your mind on the fact that it is only 21 sleeps till the BIG MAN arrives !!

This will be the third year that I have not sent cards to anyone and it will be the third year that an Alzeimers (sp?) charity has benefitted ( I am hoping that if I donate to the charity I will not need it !!). Instead of cards I ring people up which costs nothing in the uk and by using one of those numbers you ring first, it only costs about 1p per minute for international calls. It is lovely catching up with all those people I hardly ever see.

Last year it cost me over £12 for family cards by the time I had done all the different connotations. I am not doing it this year as my DGS's just got opened and threw on the floor! I have never seen my daughter put up cards I send her/them. So this year I'm buying cards from a charity and each family will receive one instead of individual ones. At least that way I am doing good also. X

Oh it's blued itself. Magic.

There are some out of the ordinary ecards from Liverpool Museums .im assuming they are free . You can send the same one up to ten times I did use the British Library ones once but they weren't terribly interesting.
I can't blue this for some reason. Sigh .
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ecards/vintage-xmas/index.aspx

Just got a couple from the UK today- 97p stamp. Now I feel really guilty!

I keep trying to leave out people I knew at work, (I left there in 1992), but 2 people keep bon sending me cards every year, and I feel mean if I don`t respond. Last year I thought I`d at last succeeded, then on Dec 23rd, my daughter, who still works there, brought cards round from the 2 people again, too late to respond, I ended up sending them each a New Year card.