Birthday cards

I would just accept them gracefully. Presents, yes, but cards are nice to leave up for a couple of weeks.

Our family rarely send cards even Christmas. Personally I buy cards for my younger Grandchildren but either hand delivered or the overseas ones I post. We have a family Watsapp group and birthday greetings are posted there. It works for us but I’m sure not for everyone.

When I was a child my three aunts never wrote in a card. They put their greetings on an enclosed slip of paper so the same card could be used over and over until it started to fall apart.

I use Jacquie Lawson e cards. There’s a huge variety, all with musical accompaniment. You can send them through email or WhatsApp. The recipient can then send a message by return.

I still send cards to my family and they send to us ,Christmas cards, I only post half a dozen.

I think a lot of the e cards are nice but there is nothing like a row of cards on the shelf!

Enjoy those cards and treasure those from your loved ones.
I wouldn't say anything about the cost .
Careful what you wish for !

I buy most of my cards from Whistlefish, 10 for £12 + p and p. They are designed by Cornish artists and are beautiful cards.

It sounds a very Gradgrind notion. Never do anything just for the pleasure, make sure that every penny goes to some useful purpose.

I have just had a birthday, I loved receiving cards from people who cared enough about me acknowledge the day. They stand somewhere prominent in the living room, which I see constantly when I am sitting there and passing through it.

Quite a number of them are humorous and each has been chosen to specifically apeal to my sense of humour, showing that the person who sent them knows me well.

The cards have given me so much pleasure over the last fortnight that it is a shame that they are about to come down to make space for DH's cards, whose birthday is imminent.

I really do not think an email card is in anyway comparable or a replacement for a physical card. You only see it if you sit down at a computer and dial it up. There are few cards to chose from so that if two people send you ecards the chances are quite high that they will be identical. As for trying to appreciate it when on the screen on a phone, hopeless.