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How many Christmas cards are you sending this year?

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Extraspecial · 12/12/2024 15:50

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?

OP posts:

flutterby1 · 14/12/2024 07:56

Posting- is a different story these days I don't want to pay for the stamps. I post 5 and a couple of overseas .

Cards without stamps- 50

LostInTheMoonlight · 14/12/2024 07:59

None. I can’t remember the last time I sent one.

We have received 3 but they’ve gone straight in the recycling.

LindorDoubleChoc · 14/12/2024 08:44

LostInTheMoonlight · 14/12/2024 07:59

None. I can’t remember the last time I sent one.

We have received 3 but they’ve gone straight in the recycling.

We desperately need a GRINCH emoji !

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MothralovesGojira · 14/12/2024 08:50

Can I just ask why the cards have gone straight in the bin @LostInTheMoonlight ? Is it that you don't like the sender, hate Christmas or hate clutter?

RedRiverShore5 · 14/12/2024 08:51

In the bin, how wasteful, aren't they part of the Christmas decorations.

Thoughtsareswirling · 14/12/2024 09:00

If you don’t want them, cut them up and use them as gift tags!

fussychica · 14/12/2024 09:09

Actually sent in the post 3.

Will send cards to half a dozen neighbours by hand plus another half a dozen at my Zumba class. Give one to son and his girlfriend and DH.
Used to send Jacqui Lawson ecards but felt they were getting a bit samey so knocked it on the head a couple of years ago.

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:12

Bignanna · 12/12/2024 16:07

25- I enjoy receiving cards, the people I send them to do as well. E greetings aren’t as good. The people who begrudge the cost of second class stamps once a year don’t mind wasting more than that on a takeaway!

Or they don't see a takeaway as a waste but do see bits of (often unrecyclable) card plus the extortionate cost of getting the PO to cause pollution just for the whole thing to be looked at for half a second, then keep falling all over the place and then go
In the bin a waste? Maybe?

LostInTheMoonlight · 14/12/2024 09:13

@MothralovesGojira @LindorDoubleChoc

I love Christmas, we have 5 trees up and the house is fully decorated inside and out, I don’t really like cards and the few we get each year are from family we cut off years ago so there is no way they would be displayed.

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:13

mysparkleismissing · 12/12/2024 16:13

3 - parents, hubbie and son
I donate to charity in lieu of the rest

Hubbie has sent 30/40 to his friends and his side family

I've never understood giving a card to someone you will actually see over the Christmas period.

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:15

Dutchhouse14 · 12/12/2024 16:22

About 50, I enjoy sending and receiving cards, the one time of year the postman delivers something nice!
Also look lovely on the ribbon I hang up on picture rail so it's part of our decorations and not in the way.
However numbers have definitely dwindled and my teen /young adult DC don't send to anyone other than closest family, they dont do birthday cards to friends either so guess card sending is dying out.
But I love sending and receiving cards !!
Not a fan of digital cards, used to like the animated ones in the late 1990s when it was all new and exciting, now I'm less impressed, can't display that on a card ribbon!
Also I don't believe in all this donating to charity instead crap, Its perfectly possible to donate to charity AND send cards, it's just laziness disguised as virtue signalling and I bet loads of people who publicly announce they will donate to charity instead never actually get round to donating either....
I'm 53 BTW not 93!

It's only possible to donate as well as buying cards if you have twice the cost of the cards spare. It's also not laziness not to do them - MN things all sorts of weird stuff is lazy - or virtue signalling.

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:17

myladybelle · 12/12/2024 17:09

I send about 60, probably receive 30. Some close relatives don't send me any but what am I going to do, send to friends but not my own sister ?!

If I was your sister I wouldn't want you to send. I don't send any and I don't actually enjoy receiving them. It's nice to know people are thinking of you, but I know my sister is because we text and speak regularly. Cards in the house are a nuisance. The few I still get go straight to the bin.

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:20

Can't re ok y to a message with a quote in as on the app, but @Bignanna it's not insulting to put a card straight in the bin. It makes zero difference to the person who sent it. I didn't ask them to 'make an effort' and I dislike cards. Most people who know me well enough to send a card know this about me. I could as easily argue it's disrespectful of them to send one when they know I dislike the waste of and the actual card

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:22

MargaretThursday · 13/12/2024 07:14

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.

It's not smug, it's a decision about how best to use our own time and money. Also cards don't bring pleasure to everyone. I'm just as pleased when somebody says Happy Christmas by text or in person, and the cards themselves annoy me hanging about the place. The pictures are rarely something I'd choose to look at.

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:25

tarheelbaby · 13/12/2024 19:19

Well, there's all the moaning but people do actually like to receive cards. Sadly, many Brits can't enjoy life. It's jolly expensive now but worth people's joy, I think.
I'll be reciprocating since those are the people who think it matters. I'll also send a few that I think matter. Stamps are expensive but they are a social.
DH and I used to send about 60 total to both sides of the list but many have chosen to donate and then send an e-card or, sadly, have died.
Not sending cards is giving up ...

Some people like to receive cards. I don't. Others in the thread have said the same. I'd be happier with a text.

RedRiverShore5 · 14/12/2024 09:27

What is it with donating instead of buying cards, surely if you want to donate you will anyway whether you send cards or not. Should we donate instead of buying Christmas crackers, many don't buy them also.

LaPalmaLlama · 14/12/2024 09:29

Probably about 35-50. I admit I didn’t get round to my overseas one this year. I like getting them and put them up as part of my Christmas decorations.

cardibach · 14/12/2024 09:29

RedRiverShore5 · 14/12/2024 08:51

In the bin, how wasteful, aren't they part of the Christmas decorations.

The waste is created by the sender. The fact they go in the bin now and not in Jan 6th don't change the level of waste. And no. They aren't 'part of the Christmas decorations'. I have nowhere to put them, they fall over all the time and most aren't something I'd choose to look at.

MothralovesGojira · 14/12/2024 09:43

Oh I completely understand about cards and unwanted contact @LostInTheMoonlight - I have a few of these myself. It is indeed the best way to deal with people who just don't get the 'go away' message!
Wow - 5 trees! I wish that I could have that many - I have one big artificial tree and a small real tree plus some window lights. I love Christmas and enjoy sending and receiving cards. It's a way of just making a bit of contact with people you don't see often and I do love the pictures on the cards as they reflect the personality of the sender. I listen to A Christmas Carol every year as I find it lifts the spirits and is life affirming.

pilates · 14/12/2024 09:50

Every year they are reducing in numbers because of the cost of stamps. A lot hand delivered this year.

Sheknowsaboutme · 14/12/2024 09:53

Zero. Stopped many years ago.
I just cannot be bothered TBH.

Manchesterbythesea · 14/12/2024 09:56

I’m in Ireland. Sent 2 cards to the uk, one to my cousin who I’m close with and one to my very elderly aunt & uncle who are big ‘card people’
We’ve received 3 so far. So different from when I was a child, the house would be strung with cards.

Andnowshesatoddler · 14/12/2024 10:04

None from me
9 from my daughter who did them of her foot at nursery to immediate family only.

tigger1001 · 14/12/2024 13:37

RedRiverShore5 · 14/12/2024 08:51

In the bin, how wasteful, aren't they part of the Christmas decorations.

Nope.

They are unwanted clutter in my house. They go in the bin at some point anyway so not wasteful - makes no odds whether they go in on the day of receipt or a couple of weeks later

TortolaParadise · 28/12/2024 01:40

6 cards sent
2 received

A sign of modern times; card shops had no queues.

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