To think this is strange from my neighbour?

This is what I'd do. What a passive aggressive twit she is

I think her note is very rude, and that's probably how she meant it

Is it just me picturing this pair?

I'd absolutely put them straight back through her door, bloody cheek!

But seriously to avoid waste if you don’t want to throw them out just return them with a note saying “we are not Christian and don’t celebrate Christmas” which is my go to response.

I am laughing out loud at your neighbour. I think this is them “dropping a hint” but like you I would probably bin the cards and ignore her.

Post them back with the original note addressed to her entire household saying you're an atheist and don't celebrate Christmas.

Aw. I’d say a Janet from down the road is not quite ok hun and is sweating the small stuff, so I’d smile and give her a card, to lighten the load. Goodwill to all , etc!

She doesn’t take in parcels, you don’t send Christmas cards. Simples !!

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It’s not style, it’s rude and passive aggressive. If others want to indulge in the stupidity of running round the neighbourhood posting cards then fine. Doesn’t mean you have to reciprocate.

No apologies needed You just won’t get the answers you want in the middle of this thread. There’ll be loads of helpful advice if you start your own (ignore the more sanctimonious). The money matters board might be best but quieter than AIBU or chat.

Send her a Wassailing card in a couple of weeks and a Happy Spring Equinox card in March and ask her if she will be out celebrating Summer Solstice with a ram's head in June.

How about posting the box of cards to number 12 and tell them you got them from Janet in No 2 and because you don't send Christmas cards can they send one to Janet in No 2 ever year for the next 20 years please.

She doesn't take in parcels. You don't send Christmas cards. Perhaps give her that message.

You could stack them all up on top of each other and glue them together like a house of playing cards. Then leave your lovely Christmas card tree effect creation on her doorstep and run off. Maybe that's what she was angling for. What a very strange person. She sounds absolutely unhinged. During the long lockdown, someone kept leaving bags of baked bean tins and little home made cards with prayers in them on our doorstep. Never found out who it was. Very generous but equally bizarre!

If there's say ten in a pack just write merry Xmas ,all the best for
2026 2027 2028 etc in each one and post all ten back thru her letterbox job done ! 😂😂

That really will be what it's like aswell 🤣

The neighbour sat seething in her house because she hasnt received a card from people she doesnt know

Mumsnet is hilarious today

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I mean, you could just post them back through her door with a note saying “no thank you.” But it sounds like it would be more fun to try knocking just so you can wind her up some more by deliberately not using the Ring doorbell.

I haven't sent Xmas cards for years. I thank anyone that still sends us one but tell them they don't need to send us one in future, if they persist that's up to them (and a bit silly IMO). I don't display them, they go into paper recycling. What a waste just to follow some unwelcome tradition. I also don't feel obliged to send one just because someone sent me one, that's phoney BS.
Some people feel snubbed by the lack of a return card but it may help her to know you don't send any cards at all and it's not personal to her. Return the cards with a brief note.

I would definitely put them in her letter box with a polite note saying thanks but you don't send out Christmas cards.

It is a bit of a batshit thing to do, but she could just be lonely.

I thought Chanel lived at No 5?

“Hi, Janet at No. 5,

Thanks for the pack of Christmas cards. However, we don’t have any desire to start sending these out, as we never send any to anyone, so please accept these back for your own use next year.

Ps. We also will not be offended should you desire to refrain from sending us cards in future!

Best, No. 11”

@GlitteryX you’d be best off starting your own thread for advice

She may be one of those busybody people who try to make everything social and everyone must join in. You see this bustling type online too. Wouldn't be my cup of tea but I would simply ignore the pointed dressing down from her or else send a diplomatic message as suggested by ohnobackagain - page 1? - as it is not aggressive or hostile and conveys a sense of goodwill.

I've had my own dilemmas with Christmas cards, like the new next door neighbour - the kind that asks you your name as soon as they meet you - who sent one and I felt obliged to reciprocate. Another time I had bought and written one for near neighbour; they'd gone away for Christmas and I didn't get one from them so in the end I didn't send mine! Now they are back to sending me one and I reciprocate. A few other neighbours I receive from because we have been friendly so I do the same.