To think this is strange from my neighbour?

Yes I like this suggestion. Make her feel guilty! What bizarre behaviour! I send Christmas cards to my neighbours but I couldn't tell you which ones send them to me, I don't give to receive. Odd year I haven't sent as didn't get round to it. That's such bizarre and rude behaviour! I would pull her up on it. Send them back with a note saying that you give to charity instead etc

I kinda secretly love her, how hilarious!

I don’t send cards either and wouldn’t be sending one next year but my god she’s got some big balls!

More fool you buying into this kind of crap.

"Im planning on just throwing the cards away and ignoring it."

Simply proceed with your plan.

Haha, this. Ridiculous.

The OP doesn't want to. That's the only excuse needed.

Agree. She's got some cheek. Maybe she should take a hint.

I'd ignore. Although my first thought was to give them back to her.

Very odd not sure what I’d do to be honest, good luck lol x

Send them back with a note saying ‘sorry, I don’t engage in this crap, so in future leave me off your christmas card list’. It’s passive aggressive shite and I would have to say something.

Ha ha! That is very passive aggressive and verging on communism.

Reminds me of someone I know - but really do not like - who was desperate to get a key regional job that came up for grabs. The first interview went OK but he was narked that the process in front of the executive board took too long and there were other candidates there. When it came to second interview he thought he would 'impress them' by showing where they might improve their hospitality in the company. He strode in, with trays of sandwiches and drinks and said "Right, this is how you look after people you value..." plonked the trays down in front of them and proceeded to pour drinks for them all. They laughed him out of the room.

This. If she’s a disagreeable type, as you say, then if you make a comment she will use it as ammunition to justify sending you a nasty note back and keep the card argument going.

The OP doesn't do Christmas cards, as is her right. She didn't ask the neighbour who she doesn't really know to send her a card. It's not impolite to not send one in return.

I think it’s your own perception that it’s smug behaviour. Times are changing and people for whatever reasons choose not to send cards. I didn’t bother this year for personal reasons but had to justify it to family and friends because they would have wondered why they hadn’t received one from me😊

Don’t waste them. Put them back through her door with a note saying thanks but we don’t do Christmas cards.

That is breathtakingly pass agg! I'd return them with a note saying 'Think you may have posted these through my door by mistake? I don't send out Christmas cards for environmental reasons.' What a weirdo.

Using the whole pack of cards, write her out a Xmas card for each consecutive year. Then post them all through her letterbox.

This. Please donate to a charity shop😊

Yes weird behaviour but I think she is trying to make amends for previous awful behaviour over the last 19 years but I'm not having it. Keeping her at arms length is the best thing after what she's done over the years.

She's early 80's and loves a good gossip (amongst other things). I saw her in the front garden last summer and she subjected me to a monologue about 'her over there, in number 56, she's left him! he's been left with the kids! Just upped and left' and 'i see no 51 have a new car; not sure where they got the money for that'...'No 48 have planted a tree in their front garden, they're not allowed to do that due to the covenants so I'll go and speak to them about that' ...I don't bloody care about what the neighbours are doing! Horribly judgemental and quite nasty. So I avoid at all costs.

Why are the 'I don't send cards' brigade always so smug about it as if they are breaking ground in some way? I especially dislike the big announcements on social media about how they are not sending cards and donating to charity instead- it's just lazy and it's always people who could afford to send cards as well as donate to charity at the same time.

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

Well there you go then- she is perfectly happy asserting that she wont take parcels in for neighbours (which is of course, her right) so you have every right not to send cards! Cuts both ways

It isn't 'escalating' the situation it's making a very clear statement to this silly cow of a neighbour that you're not going to be pushed around. I know this middle class hyacynth buquet type well. They're uncivilised bullies in their own way. They're just perhaps more subtle about it than people who are less economically advantaged. However they feed off people not challenging their awful behaviour. 'Escalating' it would be going over there and shouting at them or putting the cards through a paper shredder and posting the bits through their letter box or slashing their tyres. What I suggested is just letting them know you've got their number as politely as possible IMO

I have a really odd neighbour and can imagine her doing something like this. She presumably doesn’t realise how odd it is. I would do as pp have said and just put it back with a cheery ‘thank you but no thank you’.

OP you need to find out if this is the case. I'm invested! Please ask your other neighbours. Thanks.

And how would the OP know that the neighbour saw the post??
You made a silly comment and it deserves all the ridicule 🙄 of course it's not a requirement to send one back!