Page 6 | To think this is strange from my neighbour?

FoxtonFoxton · 02/01/2025 15:59

I'd find that so funny. What an absolute dick.
I'd be really temped to buy her one of those absolutely massive padded naff ones next year with a gushing sentiment written inside.

Didimum · 02/01/2025 15:54

Post them back with ‘Dear Janet. These are far better off gifted to someone who sends Christmas cards, which isn’t us. Wishing you happy and healthy 2025.’

Cotonsugar · 02/01/2025 15:52

housethatbuiltme · 02/01/2025 15:02

Charity shops do NOT want Christmas supplies in January... they want them in November. They often ask not to send stuff out of season as they can't store them so they end up having to pay to get rid of them.

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I know. I volunteer in one. I didn’t specify the time of year when the op should donate😊

Starsandall · 02/01/2025 15:50

I’d be equally passive aggressive and post them back with a note saying we don’t celebrate Christmas. I’m also a non card sender.

NameChanger91736 · 02/01/2025 15:48

NetZeroZealot · 02/01/2025 15:44

Agreed. I judge people who choose to send cards that do NOT support a charity.

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I hope that judgments spreads towards other things too then, do you buy everything you own from shops that support charitys?

I hope with that judgement you arnt buying brand new clothes, pots pans ect, towels ect and are getting everything from shops that support charities

Sazzerss · 02/01/2025 15:48

So funny OP, batshit and PA in equal measure.
I love @tilypu suggestion😂

BlueSky2023 · 02/01/2025 15:48

Pekitothebunny · 02/01/2025 10:43

This morning I woke up to a pack of Christmas cards that have been posted through my door. They are new Christmas cards, still sealed within their pack, unused. A note came with it saying “hi, it’s Janet from number 5. I bought these for you to send out to the neighbours next year”

Huh? Why would anyone do that? She’s isn’t my direct neighbour, she’s like 4 houses down. We don’t speak or have any kind of relationship. However, since we moved in a few years ago she has always sent us a Christmas card, and I assume she sends them to everyone on the street. We don’t bother with Christmas cards and never send them out. Could it be that she’s offended that we never send cards so this is her not so subtle way of hinting that she will be expecting a card from us in 2025?? Why would anyone care so much?

Im planning on just throwing the cards away and ignoring it. Would anyone else find this weird?

It’s very strange but I think I would ignore as I don’t know her motives, she may be batshit,
I would keep them though in case she quizzes you on them later in the year or if they come up in conversation, in that case you can say you don’t sent Christmas cards ( input reasons) and say you will return them to her

Tink3rbell30 · 02/01/2025 15:47

NetZeroZealot · 02/01/2025 15:44

Agreed. I judge people who choose to send cards that do NOT support a charity.

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Most of them definitely lie about that.

NetZeroZealot · 02/01/2025 15:44

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2025 15:40

If you don't see a problem, that's your view. I think it's a snotty remark. Charity shop Christmas cards are intended to raise money for good causes and are appropriately priced so most people who wanted to buy them to support the charity, could afford to. They are not meant to give the appearance that you are someone who buys expensive cards - the intention is to raise money for the cause (whatever it is).

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Agreed. I judge people who choose to send cards that do NOT support a charity.

NameChanger91736 · 02/01/2025 15:44

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2025 15:40

If you don't see a problem, that's your view. I think it's a snotty remark. Charity shop Christmas cards are intended to raise money for good causes and are appropriately priced so most people who wanted to buy them to support the charity, could afford to. They are not meant to give the appearance that you are someone who buys expensive cards - the intention is to raise money for the cause (whatever it is).

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Why do you care so much what someone thinks about charity cards ? 🤣

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2025 15:40

Rosscameasdoody · 02/01/2025 15:31

No, the comment is factual. They are cheap cards from a charity shop - thus confirming that the neighbour hasn’t spent a lot of money on them. Don’t see a problem.

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If you don't see a problem, that's your view. I think it's a snotty remark. Charity shop Christmas cards are intended to raise money for good causes and are appropriately priced so most people who wanted to buy them to support the charity, could afford to. They are not meant to give the appearance that you are someone who buys expensive cards - the intention is to raise money for the cause (whatever it is).

Rosscameasdoody · 02/01/2025 15:31

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2025 15:25

The remark about charity shop christmas card is snotty and unpleasant.

The neighbour is just a small-minded nutter.

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No, the comment is factual. They are cheap cards from a charity shop - thus confirming that the neighbour hasn’t spent a lot of money on them. Don’t see a problem.

thepariscrimefiles · 02/01/2025 15:30

Tink3rbell30 · 02/01/2025 11:28

Gross selfish attitude.

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Hardly. They aren't friends. They don't even know each other. The card is addressed to No 11 so it's not as though the neighbour's Christmas will be ruined if they don't receive a card from No 13 or whichever number OP lives at.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 02/01/2025 15:30

Yogibearspicnic · 02/01/2025 10:48

Wait for next year and write them all back to her. Post one a day through her letterbox until used up.

I was going to suggest writing & posting them all now, with 'Merry Christmas 2025', 'Merry Christmas 2026' etc on them. Problem solved for the next 5, 8 or 10 years, depending on how many cards were in the pack.

WidgetDigit2022 · 02/01/2025 15:28

NetZeroZealot · 02/01/2025 15:22

This. And add something about Cards not being eco-friendly.

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Or that you just send cards to friends and loved ones.

WidgetDigit2022 · 02/01/2025 15:27

Pekitothebunny · 02/01/2025 13:19

I might ask my next door neighbour if they received any from her. I’m hesitant to go and speak to her because I don’t think she’s particularly pleasant. Earlier in the year, DP and I were putting stuff in the car to take to the tip and a delivery driver knocked on her door. She answered and was very rude to him, saying that the ring doorbell works perfectly fine and she didn’t spend so much money on it for it not to be used. Might not sound so bad, but it was her tone of voice as well. When I first moved in I knocked on her door to ask if she had taken a parcel in for me because the driver didn’t specify which neighbour he has left it with. She responded to say that she doesn’t take in parcels for neighbours. So I just think she’s a bit of a funny bugger

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What a hypocrite! Did she knock on your door when she posted them?!

She needs to be called out.

Wellwellwellys · 02/01/2025 15:25

Hilarious! I think I’d have to play the long game and send one back every year or every other year. It’s just such a bizarre thing to do.

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2025 15:25

Rosscameasdoody · 02/01/2025 15:22

The OP has a snotty attitude ? Have you actually read the thread ? The neighbour is trying to shame OP into doing something she doesn’t want to do and is totally unnecessary. That’s what I would call a snotty attitude.

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The remark about charity shop christmas card is snotty and unpleasant.

The neighbour is just a small-minded nutter.

Rosscameasdoody · 02/01/2025 15:22

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2025 15:20

What a snotty attitude you have.

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The OP has a snotty attitude ? Have you actually read the thread ? The neighbour is trying to shame OP into doing something she doesn’t want to do and is totally unnecessary. That’s what I would call a snotty attitude.

NetZeroZealot · 02/01/2025 15:22

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 02/01/2025 10:48

I'd take them back and hand them to her with a firm stare and tell her that I make a charity donation rather than sending Christmas cards.
She'd have to have balls of steel to counteract that .

This. And add something about Cards not being eco-friendly.

WearyAuldWumman · 02/01/2025 15:21

I used to exchange cards with the neighbours, but we're all getting older and - I think - at the stage where we're not feeling particularly festive. Three of us in a terrace of three were widowed during lockdown and the couple across the road are not in good health.

The immediate neighbour and I exchanged cards, and I exchanged cards with another neighbour whom I've known for more than 40 yrs, but that's all.

The OP's neighbour might just be a bit lonely, but everything else that's been said about her suggests that she's a bit strange.

The best gloss is that maybe she thinks she can kickstart everyone in the street into giving cards next year.

If OP is feeling particularly wicked, she might consider shoving a card through the neighbour's door on 6th Jan - Eastern Orthodox Christmas Eve.

handsdownthebest · 02/01/2025 15:21

Just post them back with a note stating that you won’t be doing that next year and never.

Purplecatshopaholic · 02/01/2025 15:20

That’s hilarious op. Talk about batshit passive aggressive! You don’t know her, and you defo don’t want to, lol.

LuluBlakey1 · 02/01/2025 15:20

Pekitothebunny · 02/01/2025 10:55

Yes this is a good idea. I feel a bit bad giving them back though as she’s spent her money on them. Although it looks like they might just be cheap ones from a charity shop so I’m sure it hasn’t broken the bank

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What a snotty attitude you have.

itsgettingweird · 02/01/2025 15:19

My late mum has a large family - she was 1 of 7. Each of 6 of them have between 2-4 kids and of those many also have 1-2 of their own.

It's now my dads responsibility to deliver cards.

I think he has a new found respect for my mum come Christmas 😂 (after writing about 100 birthday cards spread over the 12 months previous to this!)

Me and my siblings always ask "are you writing from us all" 😇