Christmas cards out of fashion I wonder !

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

Each to their own choice.

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!

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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I still like sending and receiving them - they form part of our decorations, blu-tacked to various painted surfaces. I only ever send charity cards.
We do receive fewer now - I dare say the cost of postage must be a factor with some people, but two couples I know who stopped sending some years ago are certainly extremely comfortably off - I suspect that they just find it too much of a chore to write them.
I know it’s like getting blood out of a stone to get my dh to write the very few he has to do, and he can’t be the only one.

For the last 20 or so years of her life my mother-in-law couldn't manage the task of writing Christmas cards (about 100 cards to friends & family of all ages and all over the world). She got her three sons & DILs to take over the job for her as she worried that if her friends didn't receive a card they would assume she was dead. MIL died at the age of 102 by which time a good number of those on her Christmas card list had pre-deceased her.
DH and I still send Christmas cards but not to people we see on a day-to-day basis and never with a round robin letter. I buy my cards in January when all my local charity shops have them in the sale.

It’s estimated that we in the UK sent a billion Christmas cards in 2020, more per head than any other nation. So no, they’re not “out of fashion”, thank goodness.

I buy mine directly from favourite charities, love to receive them from family and friends and see them as an essential part of our Christmas decorations.

As for e-cards, whatever the occasion, I give them as much thought and effort as the sender has put into sending them out. One click and they’re deleted.

Last few years we've had quite a few e-cards but much prefer the paper version with a few words of news especially from friends abroad and those we only see infrequently. They look so festive too btu are costly once the postage is taken into account. Have recently stopped sending cards and gifts to nieces and nephews who we never hear from and who never even let us know a gift has been recv'd.

Love sending and receiving Christmas cards and think Christmas is a wonderful season apart from all the hype months before.

Yes, definitely they are out of fashion. Cards have become far too expensive and the postage is horrendous, so I either write a letter or send an e-mail to anyone who I won't be seeing at Christmas and want to wish Happy Christmas.

Admittedly, I never saw the point of just writing "best wishes for Christmas and the New Year" or the like, and writnig dozens of letters to people who never reply and probably don't really want to know what we have done since last year seems equally pointless to me.

Last year I sent all my overseas cards via TouchNote with a personal photo on as I did not want to queue at the Post Office. However my card to my brother in Canada arrived at his house in March via India and I wonder what happened to the others.
I agree cards are out of fashion with younger people. But I think they send them to “old folk” because they know we like them. ?