Are you sending Christmas cards this year?

Well I like writing then, love getting them and enjoy them being on display all over the Christmas season, so yes, I’m sending them. They’re a lovely tradition, and a major fundraiser for all sorts of charities. We’ve only around 20 to post, thank goodness - DH has the job of delivering the rest.

There are some absolutely beautiful cards, and I see them as part of the Christmas decorations. Unlike e-cards ( though I do have a Jacqui Lawson advent calendar, and have got a bit addicted to one of the games ).

I love sending them but one sad fact of getting older is not just that your Christmas card list shrinks but the ones you receive from more distant friends and relatives often contain sad messages.
I wonder why people wait until the festive season before plastering the card with details of death, divorce, illness or Alzheimer’s? It must be a quaint old British tradition. 🤔
I award a gold star to the ones who slip a discreet, hand written note inside that wont be read by total strangers who can’t resist, ‘Oooh, can I look at your cards?’ 😳

This morning dd sent pics of the Gdcs (10, 9, 5) writing 90 odd cards for their school friends and teachers! But at least no postage costs involved…

Yes, wrote mine 2 weeks ago, and posted 10 days ago. I love sending and receiving cards.

This year I haven’t sent any. It seems pointless. I used to put a personal note in every card I sent. But every one I received was just “happy Christmas x and x”. We have texts and emails now, so I can contact them that way if I want to. I did send them to elderly people and relatives as they are of that era, when cards were a way of keeping in touch.

But the way I see it is, They just get thrown away. And achieve nothing. So I haven’t bothered. I’m donating to my local hospice instead. I feel the money is better spent there.

I send Christmas cards every year.