CHRISTMAS CARDS.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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 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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I love receiving them though.