Marks & Sparks Christmas Cards

Seasons greetings to you too Lyndiloo and have a very happy Winter Holiday :P

I'm surprised that many posters here are annoyed at my use of the word 'furious'. I'm 'furious' when the car won't start. I'm 'furious' when I trip over the cat. At this very moment, I'm 'furious' because I've just dropped my hairbrush down the loo! (Perhaps 123coco is right ...? I must live a charmed life, and get up every morning ready to be offended! )
I know there are many horrendous things going on in the world which deserve our very real fury! And they get mine too!
Dontaskme Not sure that this explanation satisfies me ... but thank you for sharing.
A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL - AND MY BEST WISHES FOR A WONDERFUL 2019!

The trees & trimmings may certainly not have anything to do with Jesus Christ, but for Christians it is ‘A’ day chosen to Celebrate his believed birth. Either way it is a extra or special day to make some time to think of others , to share with family if we are lucky enough to have people to celebrate with . Commercialisation in my opinion spoils what it is all about, but the fact that people do make an effort or go over the top at least shows that it is still about giving,caring & sharing, even if at times over the top & a bit misguided.

Not being a Christian, I always try and avoid overtly religious designs and prefer Season's Greetings - my parents did too so I think it's been around longer than the 60s!

I seem to remember that back in the 60s there was a fashion for having Season's Greetings on cards because it looked more sophisticated than Happy Christmas.

Not worth fussing about tbh. Christians will still know what it means to them. But happy holidays instead of happy Christmas does sound silly.

Had to laugh at miss footloose very amusing!

Spelling: 'agressive' should of course be 'aggressive'. My mistake.

Witzend, perhaps I did not make myself clear. Your comments are rather agressive; unnecessarily so. I never said I don't like sending Christmas cards. I always have done and will continue to do so. I think handing somebody a card when you live next door to them or see them on an almost daily basis is strange. When I worked as a secondary school teacher I received cards (handed to me) from colleagues and pupils. One Christmas I counted about 150 cards. I call that a waste of paper. Should we not all start thinking seriously about how we can protect the environment?

Yes, M&S Christmas cards are very gloomy this year. I went in to buy some the other day and didn’t like any of the dull, bland designs. Didn’t get round to checking the message inside as I left the store feeling depressed that M&S have nothing I want to buy.

Well, Greta, since I believe the first ever Christmas card was sent in the UK back in the 1800s, maybe it is a particularly British thing. It soon caught on, and many of us still like sending and receiving them. We don't much care what anybody else thinks.
If you don't like it, there's no law to say you have to do it. It was a Brit who dreamt up Scrooge, too! So all the Bah Humbug types are also carrying on a good old British invention.

so sorry that you were in too much of a hurry to examine your cards before spending money on them, and that you don't know the history of xmas, and that you want to send cards because it's Christian (?) but can't spare the time to write two words to your friends. Sorry, lost track of the other reasons you were angry and wanted sympathy.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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 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’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

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

'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.

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

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

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.

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.