Sad to see Christmas cards going out of fashion

Still popular in this house, but it is the way we keep up with very old friends. I don’t see today’s younger people carrying on as they are in touch on social media.( so am I with more recent friends).

I think that Christmas itself seems to be dying out

Oh, I don't know I've posted 24 this week and I myself am getting a steady stream of them. Work friends from throughout our lives and a former next-door neighbour from some 70 odd years ago who's still in the same house ! Old school friends.

Even a daughter from my IOM cousin, who died, sends me cards, so as far as I'm concerned I'll keep sending until such times that I can't.
Family abroad of course.

I have sent cards this year, probably with more thought than previous years. My DM loved to get post and fretted if she didn’t have cards from the usual people. As we have been unable to see so many friends and relatives for a couple of years I thought a card dropping onto the mat would be nice to let them know they haven’t been forgotten. Much nicer than a text or email.

I do send them I noticed a couple of years ago some people sending emails instead. Its just once a year if they can’t be bothered writing and posting cards then they are off my list.

I enjoy choosing special family cards and charity cards. It’s a nod to old colleagues friends or neighbours you don’t see an old tradition I like to keep up. After Christmas I use cards we have received to make gift tags for the following year.

We’ve still had quite a lot, and I’ve sent the same.

I hadn’t thought dd (very busy working plus 3 small dcs) usually sent any at all, but the other day we had a lovely Christmassy photo card of the Gdcs, and presumably she ordered quite a few.

The two couples I know best who’ve stopped sending them, say they’re donating to charity instead. And I’m quite sure they are, but I can’t think it’s the cost of postage - both couples are well off (I do know this.). To be frank I think they just can’t be bothered any more - admittedly writing cards can feel like a chore - but it might be nice if they just admitted it.

E-cards are all very well - Jacque Lawson does some lovely ones - but I still prefer the ones the postman brings.

If anyone cites environmental reasons for no longer sending them, I will believe them, unless I know that their environmental concerns are very selective - i.e they don’t apply to anything they actually want to do.

I only send a few, but my friends are mostly far flung so it isn't practical because postage costs would be prohibitive. DGS did deliver a card to everyone in our small street this week though. He loved doing it.

If I didn't have him, I would make very little effort about Christmas.

I have noticed a few people I know use the environmental excuse not to send cards. I know they do not practise what they preach in reality they are actually very wasteful.

I sent a few more than usual this year and received a few more but from different people. I like them.

Sent out 3 dozen this year. All 2nd class stamps.
Just counted - we have 15 up and 5 more delivery days. Not that I’m counting per se, just illustrating that for us and the people wot we know, it’s still a nice tradition.

I think the practice will die out gradually, it already has to a certain extent even people of our generation have given up the habit, God knows it's a chore, but sometimes I love the newsy type accompanying letters I get at this time of year from an old school friend who I haven't met up with since the lockdown. I thought twice about sending a card to a cousin in Canada because we do exchange emails, but then decided to send her one in spite of the stonking £1.70 postage, I was glad I did, I got hers today and as others say it is a nice way of keeping in touch.

We always send cards, about 35 this year. We always get the same amount back.

I had cards ready for some of my local neighbours, but they have put Christmas greeting notices in a local magazine and stated that they are no longer doing cards.
So I don't know whether to deliver my cards to them or not.
I do think cards are gradually dying out, although I've still received a few in the post from friends elsewhere.

My list is definitely shrinking. Only a couple of DH's family left (he was one of the youngest ones) and I've lost 5 friends to a combination of Covid and cancer in the last two years, quite a chunk out of my list.

I send cards and enjoy receiving them though I’m always a bit disappointed to get a Jacquie Lawson e-card. They’re lovely and very clever but not the same as having something to open and display. My son’s generation don’t seem to do cards, though he and his wife always send us one they don’t do that with friends, so I wonder if the tradition will pretty much die with us.

Like Gagajo, most of my childhood friends are spread around the world. We WhatsApp one another, but Xmas cards, no. I send cards to friends in the UK, and to neighbours.
While I’m here, I wish all my GN friends a Happy Xmas and a peaceful 2022 ??? ? xx

Urms mine started out at about 3 dozen years ago but over the years the poor souls have died,, but still a couple of dozen remain.

Which reminds me, my address book ( my Bible ) badly needs editing or renewing altogether with its crossed out people/ addresses and nee names, which I've been using for the past 10 years or more so I've got to a stage where I can just about make things out

The Christmas cards I get are part of my decorations. I only put up a small tree so the cards give an added sparkle.
I am sending and getting less cards now. Some of my older friends have died and I have to pass them by in my address book and younger ones just aren't interested in cards.

It has been a steady decline rather than sudden death.
DH died just before Christmas last year so I didn't send cards
I am a bit shocked this year as it seems we've been dropped from a number of lists. But maybe they have also died.
I have received a couple addressed to both of us so clearly the news hasn't reached everyone
Due to covid we only had 15 at the funeral so that could be another reason.
The email round robins still come. I haven't sent my cards yet but I have bought them.
I don't mind if they are late. It's the season for me rather than the day.

Merry Christmas to you all.

I’m always a bit disappointed to get a Jacquie Lawson e-card. They’re lovely and very clever but ....

I feel exactly the same about them GsMum. I’ve got 2 waiting to be opened. They arrived on Thursday ?
Put me off ‘repeat this password to open your card’. I wasn’t near a pen/paper. Better do it today. You get a reminder if you don’t open the (pretty) thing.

EV you could buy yourself a lovely new address book (I love stationery i’m Sad that way) and spend a pleasurable winter afternoon updating it. Of course keep the old one too, just to wander down memory lane occasionally.

I love sending and receiving cards and was a bit miffed this morning to see a message on Facebook from a friend saying they wouldn’t be sending cards this year to ‘save the planet.’

I was tempted to reply, ‘Oh so you’ve waited until you’ve got all yours before telling us we won’t be getting one back.’

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Take them off your Christmas card list immediately - ‘every little helps’!?

My list is shrinking too. A few people I know have said they’re not sending cards this year due to ill health, bereavement etc. I can understand that. It’s sad though to see dwindling numbers of cards arriving.