Xmas cards 2021?

We have been considering for a few years whether to continue with cards; I have a huge family, and keep in touch with most of them regularly, so this year we won't be sending. As birthdays have come along I've enclosed a note to say we're donating to charity. I will send a jolly 'ecard' to everyone that I can, but the amount usually spent on postage and cards will go to a local charity.

I stopped sending them years ago, and it was such a relief!
It does look a bit miserable in mine, though, all card-free and bland.

I send about 30 cards each year and will continue to do so. This is often the only contact all year with some of the recipients. We buy charity cards and it’s worth the price of the stamps to keep in touch with friends and distant family members.

Mine are written, stamped and ready to pop in the postbox second week in December. We all lead such busy lives these days so i find this once a year contact most welcome.

Sadly the passage of time has reduced my Christmas card list to sending only about seven now. Most of my family and friends have died so I don’t receive many either.
But each year I delight in choosing the most beautiful cards I can find, and I buy them and decorate the lounge with them. They may all be blank but nobody notices ! Then I keep them and put them up with the new ones the next Christmas. It always cheers me !

We buy charity Christmas cards too.It’s a bit of a chore writing them but we love receiving them!

Just bought ours from the charity shop, I check they’re recyclable, ours get hung up and are part of the decorations, I love them.

I always buy charity cards and although I never relish the tedious job of writing them I do love receiving them and reading about what friends in other parts of the country have been up to over the year.
I do appreciate folk for making the effort to write, queue up for stamps and post cards to me, knowing the effort involved.

I also love to see them displayed around the house as part of the Christmas decorations.

I send charity Christmas cards to help fund and publicise my chosen charity. I do like to receive cards as they form part of my Christmas decorations stood on the window ledge.

For dh’s remote work colleagues and our football players we sent e-cards from Jacqui Lawson. It would be way too expensive otherwise and for some we only have email addresses. We will do the same this year I expect.

I’m reducing my cards this year as so many in past years were from DH’s old colleagues and those he knew through his sports - so just my family, friends and neighbours this year. Most will be delivered by hand, but as I’ve suggested in the past on GN - add a book of stamps to the weekly shop - it’s hardly noticed and saves a fright at the Post Office later.

I've reduced my card list drastically. but still send a few .
I always buy charity cards now so at least feel that helps a bit.

Loved your photo Notgran. It looks like you get a lot of fun out of your Christmas preparations.

I so enjoy sending and receiving Christmas cards and they make the place look so festive. I always buy charity cards - this year The British Hedgehog Preservation Society. The post is expensive but it's a small price to let someone know you're thinking of them and to know someone has remembered you.

After Christmas I cut the cards up to make gift tags for the following year.

The electronic ones do nothing for me. Just not the same 'twinkliness' or level of thought behind it.

I still do Christmas cards.

We no longer have contact with people who have given up on it and decided to send to charity instead. As Christmas cards were our only means of contact anyway, perhaps it doesn't really matter. Bit sad, though.

I shall continue to send the same number of cards this year as in previous years, about ten by post, the rest by hand.

I started writing mine the other night - I had found some out of date mulled wine spice ‘teabags’ and there was half a bottle of red that needed drinking, so I put them together. ?

It felt quite Christmassy and I crossed at least 20 off the list.

I still send cards, yes the stamps are expensive but it is only once a year!!! I hate to think the tradition may die out. they cheer the place up and its lovely to hear the postman at the door. As long as I'm able I will send them.

I love sending and receiving cards as well. Its enjoyable to open up a greeting from a friend or relative and then have a lovely cheerful display. I agree with BlueBelle about the charitable donation. E-cards are not the same at all. My children & grandchildren don't send cards except to me because they know I like them.

I like to send and receive cards. If nothing else, it's a way of finding out if any friends or family are no longer with us!!

We still send them, and like receiving them. They form part of our decorations, blu-tacked to painted surfaces.
We only buy charity cards though.

The list gets a bit shorter each year, either because someone’s died, or because we’ve otherwise lost touch for so long, there seems no point any more.

TBH the two couples I know very well who’ve stopped sending them, saying they’re donating to charity instead, could very well afford to do both (before anyone suggests otherwise, I do know this) so I suspect they just can’t be bothered - admittedly it can be a bit of a chore to write them.
Dh always needs quite a bit of prompting to write the few he has to do.

I like sending and receiving cards, but I always find the e-cards a disappointment as I can’t display them like ordinary ones. Convenient and cheaper for the sender but a bit of a cop-out I feel, though at least I have been remembered. I’ve bought my cards but won’t be writing them for a while!

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I'd rather receive a card than a gift. They make such a cheerful display during December too.

Same here.

I still send card's and always include a little letter.
I love receiving a card especially if I don't recognise the writing on envelope ! I've noticed that long distance friend's do telephone once card has been received!

I still send cards although it gets less each year. I love to find nice ones for close family and special friends.
This post had reminded me to have my usual November trip to the Post Office for my stamps.

I enjoy sending and receiving Christmas cards. I'm about to start writing mine as our youngest daughter borrowed and lost my address book last year so I will have to play detective on internet searches for people.
I don't think actual postage is too expensive when a card travels from say Portsmouth to Edinburgh. It's just the big quantity of stamps in one go.

I'd rather receive a card than a gift. They make such a cheerful display during December too.