To not send Christmas cards this year?

If you want to stop, an easy way to be to email everyone an e-Card soon (before other people have sent their cards out) wishing them happy Christmas and saying that you won't be sending physical cards. If you have friends or relatives without eMail/Whatsapp or whatever, you'd better phone them (or just send a card).
I'm sending about 30 cards this year, mostly to people I only occasionally see but who have a place in my heart. I don't send them to people I see everyday. And I don't include a round robin update of the year, just a handwritten message.

I was very relieved when they stopped being a thing. Waste of paper, money and effort unless actually writing a message to people you want to keep in touch with and don't WhatsApp etc.

I said I'm not doing cards this year, mainly because MIL died 29th Dec last year and my heart isn't in it. Also I cannot be arsed, if anyone is offended I have no fu@ks left to care. I did put a post on FB mainly for DH side of which there are many, some I've not met so wtaf. I won't be giving to charity in place of the cards because I have no idea why people do this and who decided it was a thing. Hopefully I won't be doing them ever 😂
I used to spend a fortune on cards, time and care was taken with messages inside and I loved it. It just seems the spirit of Christmas and what it means has gone. It's all black Friday and cyber whatever and who wants what Hairdryer and clothes etc. You'll be getting a tangerine and a candy stick and bloody appreciate it!
Bah humbug from here.

You wouldn’t know I don't like them though. I say thank you.
Mostly I objected to the condescension inherent in ‘poor lonely singles light up at my card’. If you see that, you are with them. Maybe they ‘light up’ (vomitous phrase) because someone has called round.

I used to send appeox 80, but over the last few years I've got it down to around 30. I keep thinking I should stop, and I know lots of people don't bother, but I just feel bad to not contact these people that I actually like! Many of my friends I've known for 40+ years, and they're spread all over the country, so I can't begrudge them a card and a stamp. I buy high quality, unusual cards from the Royal Academy, so I also know that I'm contributing a small amount of £ to a favourite place.

Totally agree. Blatant virtue signalling!

@cardibach we’re all different 🤣

please see reference to “we will send to those who genuinely enjoy them (because some people don’t, and that’s ok. Happy to respect that)”

hope that helps!

But surely you can say Happy Christmas to people you see regularly? Even when I sent cards I didn’t do people I see all the time.

Nope ,stopped cards and stopped all presents,

This is me.

They ‘light up’ at a card? Really?
I’m 60 and live alone. Can’t stand the annoying flappy things to be honest. Obviously I appreciate someone thinking of me and thank them (by text) but the cards go straight in the bin. What a waste.

I haven’t sent cards for a good 15 years. I speak to people or message them. If they aren’t people I speak to or message regularly why would I be sending a card, really?

I just post to neighbours near by. And close family. That's it. Haven't the inclination to post to faraway relatives due to time factor and cost of postage. Stopped several years ago.

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A few years ago we realised we were spending about £150 on cards plus stamps but that our chosen charities were only getting a fraction of that. So we stopped sending them and instead donate the money directly (with Gift Aid so it's even more valuable).

If the on,y contact/info you got was at Christmas, contact was effectively cut anyway. There are som many easy ways to keep in touch - if someone is only doing it in a few words in a card once a year it’s basically saying you aren’t friends.

Exactly as I and several others have said. Why do people have to announce they are giving to charity instead of giving Christmas cards out? 🙄 Why even say anything? No-one knows if you actually have, (and no-one cares!) And as a few posters have said, it's pretty much just an excuse to get out of sending cards/giving cards. You CBA to give cards anymore. Fine. Just own it, and stop the 'I am giving to charideee' bollox!

I know several elderly people who love to receive Christmas cards, and always give them, so I do send them to those people. But I have reined it in now, and don't send many.

One thing that annoys me is when people send a Christmas card when they aren't bothered with you for the rest of the year. That is literally the ONLY contact you get. ALL YEAR! (Along with the ghastly round robin!')😬 Blathering and carping on about their 'talented and gifted little Johnny' and their amazing hubby's promotion, and how PROUD they are of their little family!' I stopped sending Christmas cards to such people eventually - and when we moved house I never gave them my new address.

Hilariously, although we moved to this property about a decade ago, we get a Christmas card every year to 'Louise, Tom and the kids.' From 'Pat and Steve.'

I don't think they can all be very close, seeing as Louise, Tom, and the kids, didn't give Pat and Steve their forwarding address TEN YEARS AGO, and Pat and Steve don't seem to be aware that they moved! 😆

I'm sending 50 and I'm very excited about it. Personalised (BF deal). I've done it for a few years now and everyone always comments on how they look forward to them. I usually write a little message and it's a way of ensuring we touch base and exchange communication (irl). I don't buy presents so it's not an extravagant (will be £75 everything incl).

I still send around 25ish and I’m mid 40s. I love sending them and I’m not bothered if I don’t get any back. The joy of giving 🎄❤️🎄❤️

Just send a handful now to old work colleagues and some relatives. Don't mind that but will never add to my list. I sent more years ago - what a chore. I also hate the charity announcements. Nobody cares!

I stopped 2 or 3 years ago. I make a donation to charity instead - either my local food bank or local branch of Women's Aid.

I've kept cards from the past few years and I'll just put those up. I'll send a few to the olds.

I reckon we stopped sending cards about 8 years ago. The number we receive has dwindled to about 5! Used to be dozens. I shove them in a drawer as I hate the mess of them.

I give a donation to our local hospice instead.

I wouldn't be travelling to swap biscuits. I would have felt guilty not to a few years ago and would have done it. After dealing with my father's dementia which made me ill, I wouldn't and I wonder why I put everybody else's feelings before mine and my immediate family's. Do what feels right for you and your family

I just give them to people I see in real life, neighbours, local friends, kids teachers and club leaders etc. mainly because the children want to.