Christmas Newsletters

I’m fortunate to receive newsy but not boasty updates. One can mention a nice holiday or whatever without waxing lyrical - always remember the circumstances of the ‘audience’.

We had ‘round robin’ once, all about where they had been, who they had met, how much they had spent etc etc etc. At the end the information that they had bought a holiday home in Cornwall. Plus a price list. DH tore it up.

Aveline

That's not necessarily true annsixty. Everyone has ups and downs but why write about the downs? I alway think people who perceive others as lying or boasting might have a bit of a chip on their shoulders...

Or are jealous?

That's not necessarily true annsixty. Everyone has ups and downs but why write about the downs? I alway think people who perceive others as lying or boasting might have a bit of a chip on their shoulders...

I have sympathy with the OP.
I only believe a % of what I used to read in such letters.
It is boasting at best and exaggerating or fibbing at worst.
Most people have some angst in their lives during a year sad to say but the letter writers seem to go year after year without any at all.

I agree they are just talking about their lives and activities. We can't all have such exciting lives. Just be happy for them that they are enjoying what they are doing.

I agree with Aveline, it sounds like a nice 12 months for those people. It is better than a moany newsletter about the husband crashing the car, the boiler blowing up, the DGS being excluded from school, the state of the economy etc. Even though those things might have happened to them too.
Live and let live!

If that is what they have been doing then it makes sense to include it in their letter, what should they put instead?

Maybe it it is just what they've been doing. It's their real lives. Why write about dreary times?