How many Christmas cards are you sending this year?

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Precisely zero here.

I used to send one to an elderly aunt who is no longer with us so this year I am not sending any at all.

I have received one card from a cousin and one from the hairdressers!

Anyway it’s a relief so I’m not sorry the days of sending about fifty are gone plus I wouldn’t be able to afford it any more!

Am I typical? Are you sending any cards this year?

About 30 (all sent). I used to send 600 including to clients.
I have received 8 so far.

Only long distance ones now. Postal rates means I consider it wasted money . Always thought it was odd to receive ones from people I see all the time . Hate getting them if I haven't sent one to that person . Pity it's out of fashion but it was a way to keep in touch. Probably wouldn't know anyone's address to send things to .

Posting ? About 20 - 25

Delivering ? About 30

A few to neighbours (just through the door) and one or two to older relatives and the odd friend who sends me one. The cost of stamps is so extortionate now that I'm not bothering otherwise. I did send one last week to dd at university with a small treat inside.

Wrote 8 cards, sent 5. Used write many more but with the cost of postage now, it's just not worth it, with relatives I never see or hear from.

That’s insulting to those who’ve gone to the time and expense of choosing a card and sending it to you!

Second class would have been £ 34! Cards to neighbours or family nearby didn’t need a stamp

About 30 I think.

About 25. I didn't send any last year for the first time and was not going to this year either.
But then ... a dear friend died suddenly and unexpectedly last week and I realised how important it is to me to keep in touch with the people that mean a lot to me (and who live posting distance away).
So I have written and sent them now.
But can't be arsed to do it for people who live locally and I see all the time.

I usually post them to a handful of surviving aunts, and reluctantly reciprocate when I get cards from people who I only ever hear from at Christmas. A kind of confirmation that we're all still living when we're not otherwise in contact. Maybe a few overseas ones. And even so, I spent over £20 on stamps. Twenty quid! That could have gone on my Christmas wine supplies. The teetotal aunts would approve.

17. About 8 are pointless and they are to friends I'll be seeing next week or before New Year but I still like for them to have them. Every year I drop a few off the list either because I realise that that person has not contacted me for many years and clearly doesn't want them or an elderly person has died. I don't mind if people don't reciprocate but I'd expect a message or some contact in response. The ones I stopped sending had been silent since covid so last year I decided it was time to take the hint!

I'm under 47 and most of my friends send them, none of us are active on SM. I suspect that's quite unusual.

That should read 17 cards, not point number 17!

None. Haven’t sent or given them for years.

We don’t receive any now, but when we did, they would be looked at and then put in the recycling.

I haven't bothered for years. I put any I receive straight in the recycling. I'd prefer if people didn't send them to me. I can understand sending them to elderly relatives etc but sending to neighbours you barely know seems pointless

Zero

Mine is 15 and I still have some primary cards left!

None. Gave it up a few years ago.

Seven, but three in same parcel. The latter are family who we can't see before Xmas, one is a longterm penfriend, the others I was friends with approx 30-35 years ago, they all moved away but we exchange cards and a letter to update eachother.

For the first time ever........... none!

7 personalised to close family and another 16 to friends/wider family and family and neighbours. I absolutely love sending and receiving Christmas cards. It's hardly any nowadays, used to send a lot more and receive a lot more. Will still probably receive about 15 though.

About 20 by post. They are to relatives, and old friends not on FB. I don't mind the cost because I never see these people but want to stay in touch - if I saw them I'd be paying for coffees or train fares.
I was asked my surname at church last week by two people, so I imagine I'm getting cards! I will reciprocate, but at least I can hand deliver them. So in total will be around 30, including friends who I see. I didn't give them cards one year and got told off!

About 40.

I don't get the smuggery around saying you're sending none. It's something small you can do that brings a little bit of pleasure to someone else.
If people were saying that they couldn't afford it, that's one thing, but that doesn't seem to be the reason.

I remember my Gran. She was widowed at a young age and not a lot of family living near.
I remember her telling us how she would take the cards down on the 6th January, and read each one again and spend time thinking about each person who had sent it.
She'd then cut the pictures out and take them round to the local children's home for crafts where she would go in and spend a little bit of time there.
For the time it takes to write a short greeting and the cost, if our cards bring that pleasure to someone, it's worth it.

Send about 40, already received about 15, am late this year as only the international ones have been posted. I like getting cards!

Only a handful, to near family and close friends. Too expensive to send the piles of cards as we used to. I also hand post some to a group few neighbours.