Christmas cards

I find Jacqui L cards really useful for both Christmas and other occasions, once addresses added so quick and relatively cheap

I don't like e-cards either, though I do get a few. We've cut our list back somewhat over the past couple of years but I still send around 40 myself.

When we had the postal strike a couple of years ago it was particularly bad in this area and our postman told us that it wasn't worth posting anything, there was more and more post simply stacking up in the sorting office as the days went by.
I used WhatsApp where I could and sent a Christmassy picture with a personal message.

My friends in Australia were able to open the Jacqui Lawson cards I emailed them and really appreciated them, also a friend in USA

I love sending and receiving Christmas cards.For people living alone it’s an absolute joy.Decorating the home with cards makes you feel as if you belong .

Yes, I admit to using Jacqui Lawson's e cards too. I feel guilty - as recipients can't put an e card on display, but as I send around 30 cards, it's just become too expensive to buy stamps.
I try to make it a bit more entertaining in the message I can add. And by the way, you don't need to use Facebook with an e card - you can send them from JL by email. Jacqui Lawson is quite simple - you can pay a small sum which lasts for a year, so can then send cards for all different occasions.

This is the message I've sent this Christmas

I’m really sorry that I’m sending less
Of seasonal cards that arrive by the post
And cutting right down my written excess
(Having done little of which I’m able to boast)
For warmth now comes first in my monthly bills
As I mutter expletives about the cost
Of paying so much to fight all the chills
That keep on arriving from Old Jack Frost
So I’ve succumbed to the aid of our digital era
To send you warm greetings to read on the screen
Hoping I’ll make you feel somewhat cheerier
Though I’ve not sent a card to add to the scene.
May you enjoy a great Holiday with family and friends
And good food and wine
That all recommend,
For
soon it will be New Years Day
Known in Scotland as Hogmanay!
Whilst analogue missives are a bit like a dream
With festive pictures to the extreme
I have to admit that the price of a stamp
Damages my enthusiasm and makes it damp.
I know my ecard cannot be displayed
Along with ‘real’ cards exquisitely made
So I’ll have to revert to that hackneyed excuse
When Senior citizens have to reduce
And promise their good wishes are really profuse!
!Happy Christmas !

I did it!!
Thank you all.
Have a lovely 🤶Christmas 🤶 all Gransnetters

I actually love writing Xmas cards and it's the first thing I do towards Xmas. It's not too expensive as I put whole families cards in one large envelope ie sisters, nieces nephews children as I know they will see each other often. Don't care if I only get a few back it's not a problem.

I raise my eyebrows when a family members makes her usual pronouncement on FB every year that she will be donating to charity instead of sending cards.
Make a donation to charity and send me a card you tight b***er! Our family is small enough.

I enjoy receiving and sending cards. After Christmas, I cut them up for gift tags👍🎄

To you all
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I have a number of slightly irreverent images collected over the years, and for those who cannot see my Jacquie Lawson, I just send an image.