Do you still send Christmas Cards?

I have always tried to send Christmas cards only to people I don’t see during the year. I think it’s a way of letting people know that you are still thinking about them occasionally! Old work colleagues, old neighbours etc. It’s nice to hear how they are too.

My 8 year old granddaughter has designed a card at school. I've ordered 12 and that will be all I send.

I like to send cards and receive them.I don't send as many as I used to when I was working .We do give to charity as well .I have decided to use vouchers I have from te__o to do a shop for food bank as my main charity this year .

Yes, I will still send out Christmas cards this year. As so many have pointed out, it is lovely to receive them although I do wish people would make quite sure that thier signature etc is legible!

I always buy the cards in Jan & Feb, usually from charity shops and have a large box full of them so I won't have to buy any for some time.

At my age, so many friends are "falling off the twig" that it seems to be more and more important to send (and receive) Christmas cards. Especially as not everyone uses or even owns a computer!

I love to send , and hopefully receive, Christmas cards. I prefer getting a card to a present and like to let people know I'm thinking of them. I have been making more cards this year, recycling cards kept from previous years so feel they are at least getting a second use as some of the are so pretty. In the last couple of years or so I also send an e card to a number of people I don't necessarily get a card from to let them know I'm thinking of them. I usually use a photo I've taken of winter flowers for example. When you are on your own it means a lot if you get a card from someone and I like to display them. I've made more donations to charity this year anyway both monetry and donating things to the shops when open. I know postage is getting more expensive but I'm part of an online survey that sends books of stamps for your time so that reduces the cost a bit and anyway the price of a stamp to show you care isn't that much. As I can't play my usual League sports I will probably be sending a few less this year as I won't see people but if I have an email will add them to my e card list.
When my Mum was poorly and in a home I also continued to send some cards out on her behalf to her friends as if she had been able would have wanted to do it and I could let them know how she was. It was lovely to hear back from them and I still keep in touch with some of her old neighbours who thought so much about her now that she's gone.
Christmas is a difficult time now I have no immediate family left and my sister passed away on Christmas Eve so I am thankful for all the friends who have been there to support me. It will be a lonely one this Christmas but God willing things will improve in the New Year.

I do, but fear that this year might be the last year of sending to everyone. My Arthritis is playing havoc with my fingers and wrists, so I have been writing about 5 a day since the start of November. I still send out quite a lot, former work colleagues, member s of a committee that I am on, OH's former work friends that we usually see at least once a month when we all got together at a local pub for a meal and a chat, of course that has gone "down a rabbit hole" this year ( since March anyway). We always 'traded' Christmas Cards at these meetings, but will have to post this year.
That's on top of family and friends, both from big families, so think we will have to cut the load next year, it gets very expensive with the price of stamps these days. I have taken to sending cards together, asking the recipient to give out, and it has cost me considerately less in postage, "my tip of the day"

Yes. I do, about 40 and love receiving them. This year will be particularly lovely as I usually go away early December for Christmas and New Year so I am usually opening them after Christmas.
I always buy charity ones shared between RNLI and Parkinsons. I like them to have a picture relating to the Christian meaning of Christmas but, they are becoming fewer. I don’t expect everybody to send religiously themed cards but it is frustrating for those who, like me, do.

Yes, I always send cards and I like to receive them too.

Like TwiceAsNice I also send cards still, despite the ever increasing cost. The friends I send cards to are mostly those who do not use Social Media, or in some cases, Smartphones - so it's a regular "catch up" exercise. I buy Charity cards too, so feel that I am balancing out my carbon footprint to some extent.

Yes, always charity cards. This year it's for Neuroblastoma UK, a small charity fundraising for research into the horrible aggressive brain cancer that mainly affects children. I came across them online.

I don't send very many, though, as we don't have many friends. We are not very gregarious.

No, not since DH died five years ago. I couldn’t face writing just my own name.

To be honest, I used to send around 60 cards and always found it a chore, not to mention the cost of ever increasing postage, so it’s one less thing to stress about.

Yes I make and send about 50 cards each year and have made about 35 so far. Yes it will cost me more this year as I can’t hand them out to my WI and embroiderers guild friends. However as we can’t meet up I feel it’s important to show we haven’t forgotten them especially those shielding or living alone.

I normally have cut my list down to just a handful (people who live away who I don't see often) but this year I thought I'd go through my address book and send a few more - feeling that perhaps people need a cheer up these days. Also a good reason to get out and walk to the mailbox.

Over the last five years or so we have been told we will not be getting a card and money was going to charity, so we stopped sending back but this year I am wondering whether to send out cards anyway, even if they decide not to send any. On the bonus side I have found I get a phone call in lieu so perhaps that is better.

I used to keep in touch with friends scattered around the world/uk with Christmas cards but now emails are the thing (not the same feeling as recognising a foreign stamp or handwriting of course!) And they do decorate the house, although I nearly set the house on fire lighting the candles on the dining room mantlepiece after a few vodkas one New Years Eve. I still send cards to family though.

I don’t as I don’t really like them at all.
Very wasteful, if there is anyone is want to wish a merry Christmas to I just send them a message or give them a call.

I'm undecided. I've noticed over the past few years that a number of friends on my Christmas card list appear to have waited to see if I send them one before they send one to me. I took the same stance last year and the number of cards I received did reduce. I'm wondering if people generally are concerned about the cost of cards plus of course postage, and if the wrong postage is on for the size of envelope then that probably stays within the confines of the Royal Mail sorting office as who wants to pick up from there when it could be quite a distance for some people to travel only to find they have to pay not only the balance of the postage but a charge.

I still send Christmas cards and enjoy doing so. I like being in touch with people, who in many cases I haven’t seen face to face for years or even decades.

I send about 25 and buy them in the January sales. I buy from the website of the National Trust, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home or Cancer Research etc.

I buy books of second class stamps during the year and put them away with the cards, thus spreading the cost.

I love receiving cards and hanging them up in the living room and dining room.

Will continue to send about 80 cards to friends and family. It is the only contact I have with some people throughout the year. When I was younger, I hated getting those boastful round robin letters listing friends' children's spectacular achievements during the year, but now I look forward to hearing a little bit of news. Also enjoy putting the cards I receive up around the house as decorations. Most years they stay up till Epiphany, but some years I keep them up till Candlemas.

I love to receive cards so I send them too. Most people I know like to have cards up in their homes.

I love sending and receiving cards and I plan to carry on as usual. I hand deliver as many as I can and put cards for family groups into the same envelope.
I can't imagine a Christmas without cards! We string them across the room and they are a major element of our decorations. I keep them afterwards and use them for crafts, gift tags etc.
Also it is a good way of knowing who is still alive.

No, haven’t done for about ten years. Got really bored writing the same thing, and never seeing half the people anyway. Then the ‘ Round Robins’ started, and that was me done. We do send lovely ones to our children/ grandchildren, so the individual families. I hope they keep them, but otherwise, no.

Love receiving cards, there's something so nostalgic about them. Not keen on the chore of writing them, and my hand gets tired so quickly these days! But if I want to get them, need to send some out soon! Notice fewer people are sending them these days. But I will keep on!

I'm sitting on the same sofa as Iam64 and Witzend. Can't see why the sending of cards and giving to charity cannot co-exist. Charity donations can be spread throughout the year if funds are tight at Christmas but I'd hate to forget people who have lived and supported me over the years.

I make my own and write a poem inside too. Only very simple. But my friends and family seem to enjoy them. Also decorate the envelopes with festive stickers. Why not, ‘tis the season to be jolly