CHRISTMAS CARDS.

It is a chore, Nonu so I get mine out the way as soon as I can.

I love receiving them though.

Didn`t buy mine till last week, finally got around to writing them last night, hate the job.

I quiet enjoy doing -mine- ours. We don't have a large family, and I refuse to send to anyone that hasn't sent to us in the past 2-3 yrs.
Conseqently only have to write about 20.

I wonder who amongst us writes the most

I only write about 20 as well. Family and close friends and that's it.

Hate it - I wish the practice would die out...!

With Mrs. G sent 86 last year. Thanks to the grim reaper and some judicious pruning the number will be down a bit this time round.

I don't send out many.Seems alot people wait till they get one from you...then send one back. I wonder if you waited till the last minute how many you'd get?

Actually *Envious I don"t really care about cards from people I have seen fo a least a decade , it all seems a bit pointless .
Must make me seem a bit harsh ! I am not really !

I keep all those I received from lat Christmas and go through making sure everyone who sent one to me gets one this year, then I hit the address book. Love it, but it can be sad when I find one, as I just did today, from a dear person who died in 2013. I'll put that card in my memory box.

No not harsh at all! If I think about the best reason to send cards it would be to people you don't see at all....let them know you still think of them and wish them well!

But I do care and wish I didn't! The problem being we have moved around such a lot that I have good friends all over the country. I would hate them to think that I had forgotten them, and the thing is, I only discovered relatively lately that when you leave a good friend, they do take it fairly personally even though they know they shouldn't. I have managed to whittle my list down to 60ish but the expense of the stamps is a killer. I buy really cheap cards but even when I leave my cards really late I still get cards arriving, and as far as I can make out, some people send cards to people far away who they never see, and others send cards only to those who live near enough to hand deliver, others only to people they know they will see the week before Christmas - everyone has different ideas of who they should send cards to.

I just wish I had never started in the first place. I hate the whole thing. I don't even want cards all over my house, it's cluttered enough already. The good thing is, my son has left school so at least I won't have his as well. The bad thing is - my husband is a teacher so all the kids he teaches will send him one! Plus Iwe have to buy cards and little gifts for his whole class. Which I we have to wrap.

Oh dear! I'm the wrong one for advice! I don't even know 60 people! Unless I can start counting you all!

This year we are donating to Charity the money we would have spent on cards and sending them. Lots of our friends have e-mail addresses and I have designed my own card with our special greetings which I am attaching to e-mails to friends, with the explanation. There are some friends who do not have e-mails, these will receive cards, and at the Museum where we volunteer we do one card for everyone, which gets posted for all to see, the same applies to bowls club people, that way we feel no one is left out of our greetings.

Haven't eve thought about starting yet! You have jogged my memory!

I write them and send them. I rather like doing it.

The increasing cost of postage is a concern to me. It is painless and cost-free to send e-cards, though, of course, these can't be propped up on the mantelpiece as proof of one's immense popularity.

We have had a Christmas card from one of DHs cousins. Typical of their style.

A glossy vista print photo of a man and wife very poshly dressed gazing lovingly at each other in front of a lavish Christmas tree.

The caption underneath reads......

December 2012- we had a wonderful time in the Carribean on board Celebrity Eclipse celebrating our 40th Wedding Anniversary, and the new year in style.

Oh dear Oh dear! IMO not what your should send to people. Is it supposed to say look how successful we are?

DH delivers the local ones by hand on his daily constitutional to keep costs down. So although I write about 20 I only pay post on half of those.

86!!! I don't think I could name 86 people.

I get a card each year from someone I used to work with but no longer see. The card always contains a round up of her family's year, telling me about all their successes, holidays etc. I find it odd.

I posted 40 yesterday and bought 'Scouts' stamps for 20 people in the village. I could easily deliver those by hand but it seems a good idea to do it via the scouts. I suppose I hand deliver a further 30 to people I will see fairly regularly before Christmas including family.

I love getting cards and regret the passing of the 3 or 4 deliveries a day that we used to get when students did the post.

I love sending Christmas cards to keep in touch with people I don't see very often due to life changes but care about. I like to add a little catch up note and ask about family. Sometimes this leads to a phone call or meeting for coffee. To me it is a happy thing. Carols playing on my iPad and a little festive drink - sherry or Baileys (mmmm) the card list has diminished a bit due to the Grim Reaper but it is to me the beginning of Christmas!

I'm a bit sentimental about Christmas

I hate writing them too, have to do about 50 that go in the post but I deliver locally by hand and family ones are given by hand also.. I tried to cut out about a dozen for people that I never see but once their cards started arriving with nice messages catching me up with their lives I just couldn't do it so reinstated them and they all sit on my desk waiting to go in the post now... I just wish the custom would die out quite frankly.

Oh and don't get me started on the fact that 30+ are for OH's friends and family , if I didn't write them they'd never get one. Does anyone else's husband actually help with the card sending?

Mine writes one tanith - well he hasn't done it yet.

The irritating thing is that I have to send them to people who are friends of DH that we never see, I don't like and only send one when they get ours.

Living so far away from the majority of my friends and family, I always enjoy receiving cards. If the sender has taken the trouble to write an update of their year I appreciate it . Just because we have had a lot of sadness and difficulties doesn't mean I begrudge anyone else their happiness.

The cards I am sending this year came from the hospice in Edinburgh where my sister died seven years ago. They had a lovely selection and were not too expensive.