Xmas cards 2021?

That's the card we made for our mums last year - DH does the technical stuff, adding the lights!

I'm cutting down this year and just sending to immediate family and extended family I have seen in the last year. The 15+ nieces nephews great nieces and great nephews I haven't had any contact with or ever received a card from aren't on my list.

I stopped sending card to most of my card list around 2006. I donate money to the Cystic Fibrosis trust. The amount varies according to what I can afford that particular year. I use to send £25 but it was sometimes more. I will continue to do that whilst I have the money. Everyone that has email or social media gets a Christmas Themed message. I send to elderly or to relatives that dont have or use electronic media.

I buy charity cards and send to family and friends all charities need our help more than ever. As my dad used to say a card cost nothing also I’m helping Royal Mail too lol

I do love Christmas cards, but posting them these days costs more than I paid for the cards themselves. I think putting them up at home adds to the festive feel. Several people have swapped to emailing now, so that’s what I’ll do for them. I resolved last year to just send cards to those who sent them to me and that’s what I shall do this time. It’ll probably take me a decade or more to get through all the cards I have!

I buy charity cards or make my own every year = love sending & receiving Xmas cards - all part of my Xmas Decs. Tried reducing my list but peeps still send - have just one friend who had stopped and told me last yr by letter they are giving the money saved to charity ..

For years I have only sent cards to the very few people of my parents' generation who are still alive, and who do not use the Internet.

Everyone else gets an e-mail with an attachment telling how our year since last Christmas has been.

I will be doing the same as previous years; buying some lovely charity cards with every intention of sending them but before I know it, it’s Christmas Eve and I still have them! ?

Still send them although did cut down on numbers last year. Many go overseas so postage costs a small fortune but they go to people I don't see anymore but had happy times with that I like to remember.

I love sending and receiving cards - remembering friends from more than 70 years ago. I love to hear news from old friends made throughout my life. Also from newer friends made more recently. I would never give it up! I guess I’m quite childish in my pleasure at hearing the letters plop through the letter box?

I have always enjoyed receiving and sending Christmas cards.I buy Charity cards also. I include a letter with a photo or two if I can remember the technology. Friends/family who saythey are no longer sending annoy me.This year might be hard as my DH died and I’ve only to sign my name this year. I’ll need to get them posted early as some people on my list won’t know my sad news. I hope this tradition does not end.
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I’ve always sent cards in the past and enjoy receiving them, but this year I’m undecided.
I’m trying to be more green so am wrestling with the idea of not sending any and just putting out a Christmas greeting on FB
I usually make a donation to charity anyway but would make an additional one in lieu of cards.
Still not sure though.

Still send Xmas cards (charity ones), love to do this and receive them brings a smile to my face and hopefully the people I send them to.

I try and buy mostly charity cards, often in the sales. I like sending and receiving them. They make lovely decorations by themselves. I try and match each card l send to its recipient. I write a card for each of my pupils and give it to them at the end of their last lesson of term. I also have a tub of Cadbury’s Heroes and they are allowed to choose two each. Collecting parents and younger brothers and sisters are also offered the tub.

I love the whole business of sending and receiving Christmas cards. One hardly has time to keep up a correspondence with fifty odd families and individuals even with email so a once-a-year exchange is wonderful and part of the Christmas magic.

I have a tradition of choosing classical art printed on good card. I usually send Renaissance painting prints of the nativity or mother and child variety. This year, however, the 'Museums and Galleries online shop' had an offering of Dutch winter masters so I have gone with these as they are beautiful pictures. I have already bought my Christmas stamps (had to extend the mortgage but what the heck!)

The DH and I sit one Sunday afternoon at the beginning of December and write our cards, remembering and thinking about the people we are sending to. We use our fountain pens and ink - never a biro.

I always include a Round Robin newsletter and try not to be too boastful or annoying. I keep it light and newsy with bad jokes and plenty of goodwill.

The cards are then posted on the Sunday nearest the middle of December which this year will be the 12th December. Then I feel really Christmassy.

I also love the sound of Christmas envelopes pattering onto the doorstep and opening missives from friends and family.

Afterwards I make gift labels from the cards for use the following year.

Love to send & receive Christmas cards. Charity cards mostly but special cards for family.

I only give cards to my sons, partner and best friend, I don't post them because postage often costs more than the cards these days.

i have an online catalogue that reduces all christmas cards to about 10p a packet, i have enough to do me about 5 years, i have 54 neighbours and most of them give me a card, i wrote this years cards back in january but will now have to re-write them as i lost my partner back in may, the only personal ones i buy are son&daughter in law, mum and grandsons. i keep special cards like christmas, birthday and valentines, i have cards from my husband who died 22 years ago, also from my partner and my son. some of my neighbours, the only cards they will get are from other neighbours, everyone is different so either send or don't send, do what keeps you happy.

We’ll write and send the usual ones. I like to receive them too. I exchange e-cards with some folk as well.
Each to their own.

Christmas cards are such a lovely part of Christmas, the more and the glittery the better.?
I probably send and receive about 30 through the post and then about a dozen hand delivered.
I don’t add messages about the family in the cards, or do any round robins ( annual firelighters.)

I agree with Bluebelle. Giving to charity instead of sending real Christmas cards to people is no substitute, I do both. It is a Christmas tradition I would like to always be there. A very sad sign of the times to stop sending real cards.

I use Jacquie Lawson E-cards. I’ve bought two years subscriptions for the last 8 years and o love them!

I love sending and receiving Christmas Cards, and as many have said they add to the Christmas decorations around the room making the room look alive with colour !
Stamps are ok bought over the months from Sept onwards, put away and not really adding to the cost of Christmas (which is costly enough).
I think that Royal Mail should think about issuing a special Christmas Card stamp, to be used between 1st Dec and 25th Dec and costing around say no more than 30p.....this will keep the postage cost down and may entice people to send out more by post, so the Royal Mail don't lose too much money.
I also save money by putting cards for whole families in one brown envelope, asking the recipient to hand our for me, it does work out cheaper doing it this way if you can.

They are lovely silvertwigs and very clever and cost effective but people can’t display them! I receive some every year and just wish they were real cards I could put with others, and signed by the sender. They might not be as appreciated as you think.

Thank you MissAdventure.xxx