Marks & Sparks Christmas Cards

Well said, Luckygirl I agree.

Esspee me too (or I also). Any excuse for a get together with family or friends ????

I cannot understand why a Christmas card can have anything but Happy (or merry) Christmas. Whether you’re a Christian or not, Christmas is a festival that we celebrate in this country.

"We know what the problem is without spelling it out"
Sorry, don't get that. Would you spell it out for me please?

Well let's put it this way. If Jesus is ok with it then so am I, and something tells me he's got better ways to celebrate his birthday than worrying about what's printed in shop-bought cards.

NannyC2 do only persecuted Christians matter?

Anja how did you extrapolate that from NannyC2's post?

I always buy charity Christmas cards.

This year I bought an assorted pack with different charities benefiting from the proceeds. (Hopefully).

I think it’s a bit wasteful buying and sending cheapy ones.

Christmas has nothing at all to do with Christ nothing at all , he wasn't born on December the 25th , you are celebrating saturnalia. It is all pagan .What has a tree got to do with Christ , what has any of it to do with Christ . Nothing , it would be a good thing for all to do some research on this subject .

Mustn't upset the minority.

So that's us told!

Am I being utterly dim or is GN in cryptic mode today???
Where did "mustn't upset the minority come from"??
Talking about pagans? Muslims? What?
And still waiting for the "no need to spell it out" explanation? Or was that it?

Sorry to be oblique mcem! My post was in response to the dressing down we got from lizzyann.

I love the way in which DH designs our cards, prints them and prints the envelopes too. Minimal cost and done and dusted without leaving the house.

It’s really nothing to get furious about or argue over. For me the motive of the card is most important and then I proceed to write my own message and a little extra for each person. Mind you I don’t write many (maybe 10 or 15). I don’t write a card to anyone I see or speak on the phone around Christmas. Never understood why colleagues or neighbours give each other cards when you can give your wishes verbally.
If I received a card from any other religion wishing me a blessed time (Divali, Ramadan Hanukkah etc), I would be very happy and reciprocate. What I find unacceptable is when we are told at work not to mention Christmas to our business partners because it could offend someone. We have to write happy holiday which I never do. I don’t think anybody is offended by Christmas wishes it’s the very small yet influential politically correct brigade (media) that want us to believe that.

chew yours was one of the less oblique posts!
I saw your point but am still puzzled about earlier ones!

Take a chill pill love, and have a cool Yule!

'Christmas has nothing to do with Christ nothing at all' This may be true for your Christmas lizzyann. Not true for mine and a lot of others. I send nativity cards, I think about Christ coming to earth and I go to church on Christmas Day. It is the season of goodwill and sharing Christ's compassion and love is important to me. Is 25th the exact date Jesus was born? Probably not but that doesn't matter a jot to me.

Pittcity I was only saying to my DH that hardly any of our cards look very christmassy the other day.I didnt think of the glitter as being not recycable. It seems that the traditional cards with santa claus, robins, and other festive scences are becoming a thing of the past. Instead of reds, greens and gold a lot of our cards are pale blue and in very subdued colours.Must be a sign of the times

I’ve been sending more and more ecards and have received more including newsy Christmas letters too. I realise some folks don’t like them but I can’t stand waste and just see cards as more landfill. I said to DH I’m going to send ecards only next year except to folks who don’t have email addresses of course! He thinks we (I!) should carry on sending cards “to keep in touch”. I do that ALL year esp to those alone, bereaved so don’t need to send a card for that. I, too, am a practising Christian and love to celebrate our Saviour’s birth but don’t need this retail madness to do it-a Happy Christmas to you all

I don't like 'Winter Wishes', so wouldn't knowingly buy cards with that message. 'Season's Greetings' has been around forever, though - well certainly since I was a child, and that feels like forever .
If I found that I'd bought cards with words that I didn't like, I might be furious, but only with myself for buying them. Can't see the point in being furious with the shops for selling them - I don't like Marmite, but I wouldn't be furious with shops for selling it

I'm not a Christian, but I send cards to friends who all celebrate it, whether they believe or not. It's a nice thing to do, especially when you live so far from friends that you never see them, let alone get to share the Festive season with them. I enjoy making them, it's a creative thing to do and recycles all sorts of bits and pieces. And I agree about the use of X.... I have noticed so many messages on forums here use abbreviations, most of which I have trouble translating to be honest. If you can't be bothered to write the whole word, then shame on you. We have a beautiful language that is being debased by the stupid text language people use nowadays.

I don't even like 'Season's Greetings' - Happy/Merry Christmas only - at least for those I know who celebrate it.

So I do check before buying - it can be annoying if I particularly like the design.
I really dislike 'Happy Holidays' - best kept firmly to the other side of the pond, IMO, but I only ever get those from the US/Canada.

Lumarei: I don’t write a card to anyone I see or speak on the phone around Christmas. Never understood why colleagues or neighbours give each other cards when you can give your wishes verbally.

If I may say so, I think the giving of cards, rather than just wishing people a happy Christmas when you see them, is a very British thing. It has always baffled me. The problem I have is that all my neighbours give me Christmas cards so over the years I have done the same. I have not wanted to be seen as unfriendly and unkind.

Like many people I have friends and family of different faiths . I acknowledge the various faiths with specific cards, Hanukkah and Dwivali, but also send Christmas cards as well.
I do think it is very important for us all to celebrate all our special times, and Christmas is Christmas, not a season.

I thought this post was going to comment on how gloomy the M & S cards are. At least the one we have received is quite gloomy. Very dark green with a little glitzy writing. Haven’t actually read the front to be honest. (I managed to get some cards with a religious theme this year, not often that happens).