Christmas cards out of fashion I wonder !

I still send about 40 but some are hand delivered. I get about the same number back. Every year I say I won't do it but I would feel bad to receive a card from someone I had crossed off my list. I suppose by the second year of not sending them the numbers would have reduced somewhat. We have had two years of just the two of us for Christmas (various reasons including covid) but this year we are going to our lovely daughter's, assuming there is not another lockdown, so I am looking forward to it. I do feel for those of you on their own. I know this has been said on here before but Christmas goes on for far too long imho.

the amount i send and we receive every year gets less sadly I do love them

Last year l decided to not send christmas cards, donated the postage and cost of cards to the local food bank it being £50.00p.
Might do the same this year.

Years ago before social media and email, it was the norm to send and receive Xmas cards. Due to the above its lessened I suppose. Like receiving written letters.

I send to close friends and family and whoever sends me one. It's the same with birthday cards. I receive very few these days but receive greetings on Facebook. It's a sign of the times sadly.

I still like to send and receive Christmas and birthday cards. During the first lockdown I got round to making quite a few either from my own photographs (therefore unique) or recycling old ones. I also enjoy receiving a card rather than a present as it shows people still think of you (important when you live on your own). A few years ago I also started designing an ecard - again from my photos - and send that out to friends I don't see very often but want them to know I think about them, it reduced the number posted.
When my Mum went into a home I still sent Christmas and birthdays cards out to her friends on her behalf as I know she would have wanted to if she was able. I could tell them how she was and got some lovely letters thanking me as they thought a lot about my Mum. I take part in a postal survey that rewards you with a book of stamps so often have nearly enough to send out my cards. What I don't like though is the standard, non personalised letters telling you what all the family have been up to (and I don't even know them). If I write letters to people with their card it is at least personalised to them

It’s lovely to read how many of you put thought and care into making your own cards. It’s my treat to myself to design and make my Christmas cards each year. I think it’s really special for people to receive a hand made card and personal message and, yes, I really think about the recipient as I write. A bulk mailing to a friend in the UK for her to post pre second class stamped cards is a lot less expensive than sending cards individually from Australia.

Definitely not - myself and my husband send or hand cards to all family members and friends every year. I am also a member of a Facebook Christmas Card group that was started to get cards sent to people on their own, for whatever reason, who did not get many cards. Most of us signed up just to send cards but, understandably, the recipients wanted to return the favour. We have been going for five years now and send between 5-10 cards each per year. I love receiving Christmas cards - although maybe millenials feel a little differently about them.

Oh please - people moaning that a stamp is too expensive! For that price you can send a card from one end of the UK to the other - including the islands - to be delivered a day or two after you posted it! A fancy coffee in Starbucks et al costs three times that - I never fail to be amazed about what people will and will not spend money on, one thing I know is its rarely logical!

Definitely dwindling - postage so expensive, and we have so many other ways of keeping in touch - I'm not sure I really care anyway. I buy a very small number of really good non tacky cards just for people I don't see often, and don't care if I don't get many tbh

I don't do cards at all these days. It just seems frivolous and silly to post a paper card - when you can text, email or pick up the phone.

It's environmentally unfriendly too. I know some people just love sending and/or receiving them, though.

Historically people sent cards to people whom they wouldn't see over the Xmas period, then cards became a status symbol, now few cards are sent but emails instead, often with the money usually spent on buying cards sent to a charity. I only send 2 cards now; to my grandchildren.

I send a few and love getting some back, especially the newsy ones from friends I haven’t been able to see for ages.

They seem to be out of fashion more with younger people I think. I like to send Christmas cards and I always will, you can't beat a handwritten card.

Must say I’m glad that nobody (except little Gdcs) sends us home-made cards - I’d feel so bad for chucking them out come the 6th January.

This Christmas will be my first without DH. It’s my intention to pop a little note in cards for those people who sent sympathy cards etc at the time and/or donated to the Just Giving page Charity in his memory. Next year, I’ll probably not send to them again, as they were mostly old work colleagues or friends through his hobbies who I only knew by name.
A much shorter list for 2022 to just a few family and my friends.

Witzend

Must say I’m glad that nobody (except little Gdcs) sends us home-made cards - I’d feel so bad for chucking them out come the 6th January.

You could, if you want to, get some frames and then they would not be just cards stored in a drawer but works of art conserved in a frame.

I don't know where you shop but Tesco will deliver frames with grocery orders. Here is a link to the general index but what they have available in particular stores can vary with the size of the store, Superstores having a smaller range. The framed cards need not be displayed permanently, the object could be stored in a drawer, but is nonetheless conserved. A written note could be tucked hidden from view at the back and/or stuck on the back with a record of which year the cards were received so that it would become an heirloom.

If that were done each year a collection would be accumulated.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=frames

Lovely idea, ElderlyPerson, but at this stage of life - past my three score and ten alas - I’m trying to get rid of ‘stuff’ rather than accumulate even more!

Oh I am that age too but I am building up my art collection.

Each to their own choice.