Christmas Cards

With Facebook I send less cards now both for birthdays and Christmas. I only send cards to close friends and family.

I was not one for sending cards, but an interest in calligraphy changed all that! I not only hand write them, I make my own too with little paintings on the front.

An enjoyable hobby for me

Every year I buy the cards early in anticipation of writing and posting them in time for surface mail rates as we live overseas. Every year I find myself writing at the last minute usually having to buy more cards as I don't know where the last lot are ? I have spent a good deal of time today and yesterday writing out the piles of cards we just bought as I can't find the ones I bought at the January sales last year! We got all of them posted off today. I love writing and sending them, get a childish enjoyment from posting ally brightly stamped cards in the box. Postage usually costs more than the cards but so worth it if the recipients get as much pleasure as I do when I receive and put my cards up. I like people to see my card and know I'm thinking of them. I dometrs send calendars as that's a useful thing to give. Card sending is one tradition I shall continue with. And one day I might hit the jackpot and find my hidden stashes of Christmas cards ?

Tanith
Isn't the point of sending xmas cards for those who are not close enough for you to convey the seasons greetings in person. Apart from dgc who love to receive cards I now give the money I would spend on cards and postage to a charity.

There have been recent threads on the subject of cards.
I find it's a good excuse to sit in my dressing gown with a few cups of tea on a cold dark winter's morning and write my cards.

Why have we got two threads on Christmas cards

I have written my cards ready for posting on 1st December, for many years now I have written them mid-November.

No letters to go in them this year as many of my friends are on fb so no new news from me (apart from birth of GS2 in May which they all know about). It's been a pretty "normal" year, no excitement.

I also email friends if I have important news to pass on.

I love receiving Christmas Cards particularly as I'm a Widow, love to have them dotted around my Lounge.

Can't bear miserable people who don't send cards

I get mine done as early as poss just to get them out of the way , then they will all be posted on 1st. I feel quite relieved as they are all out of the way, and I even have all Xmas gifts wrapped and ready to go. So I can start the Dec madness calm and chilled. When you have a big family it pays to plan in advance and alleviate the stress.

I didn’t send any cards last year and since the sky didn’t fall in I won’t be sending any this year either. I think spending the money on a charity is a better idea and majority of my friends and relatives feel the same.

If you feel like that why bother at all? I’d find it lacking in any genuine sentiment of good will to receive an e-mail greeting. I enjoy making my cards with love. All Sunday and yesterday I spent making 30+ little cards for DGD’s classmates - it’s her first Christmas at school. I worked at a primary school for a few years and sent a simple homemade card to every child - there are always unpopular children and if I made just one of these children feel included then the effort was worthwhile.

Don't understand why you would send a card to people you see regularly. Wish them a happy Christmas face to face! I send personal emails which are much more detailed than a card.

I stopped doing them 10 years ago. I donate the equivalent in £ to Shelter to provide Christmas dinner at homeless shelters

I do the same as chelseababy and have the labels on my computer. They usually need updating but make life a little bit easier!

I love to get cards, therefore I must expect to write them. I generally sit down to write them during early December to 'get them out of the way'.
A rubber stamp can help with a generic message so all I have to do is add my name.

I'm still writing mine. About 40 left to do. I know it can be expensive but I wouldn't drop the custom for anything. I love to receive cards from people I hardly ever get to see all year. I hate the recent trend of a message on Facebook telling all that they are giving money to charity instead of a valued card to friends and family. I have always thought that charity giving was to do with a little self sacrifice not making others do without.

I have the addresses on my old [email protected] and print them on to sticky labels. This has reminded me that I need to do an update and copy the labels to the laptop. Not writing envelopes does save time.

I love receiving cards but what a chore to write them. 'Luckily' I have had to have the electrician in so wrote them and letters in one go whilst the electric was off. First time ever done in November.

As a 70 year old I still value the tradition of sending Christmas cards as they remind me of the traditional Christmases we had before everything became so commercialised. In fact I enjoy receiving cards more than lots of presents, most of the cards we get are from friends mainly in our age group. These friends go back to our younger years and hold special memories.

Oh! I knew there was something I needed to buy today...

I sat for hours the other day writing out cards and I still have more to write eg for members of groups we attend. My husband writes ONE per year -to me, but would be fair huffed if I missed anyone out! This year I am cutting out a few folk that we rarely see and will wait to see if they send us one or not. I am planning to use the local Scout Post for cards in our own county as it's only 35p each and it helps the kids too.

I do find it a chore but can't bring myself to stop the habit.

I have taken to putting a notice on FB advisin my friends that the money this year has been spent on....whatever cause I decide to donate it to. A few older relatives and friends get a card because it means something to them.........but I find sending bits of cardboard through the post a bit wasteful unless the recipient really wants it.

DH did our cards 4 years ago for the first time as I announced I was having a cull he was appalled that I would ruthlessly cut off people!
He has done them ever since.
Perfect?

I wrote mine in an afternoon last week. They are still waiting to be posted, one to go to South Africa, and one for New Zealand. They are getting less every year (phew). When we first got married, my DH had what seemed like thousands of Aunts and Uncles. ?

I haven't even bought all mine yet.
I fished in drawers and cupboards yesterday to find the 24 which I bought in the January sale so just a few more to buy plus family ones.
Like so many, it is a job I hate although there are less each year, but I do all the posting ones one day and the hand delivered the next. It seems to come round very quickly.