to ask what grandparent names you use (in light of frustrating lunchtime experience)

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So what happened was, among the 17 or so other jobs I was trying to squeeze in to my lunch hour, I had to buy two "Grandma and Grandad" cards for DD to send. Yes she would normally take care of this herself and will no doubt pay me back for them, but she is at school all day and there is a particular urgency for one of the cards. It needs posting soon and we want to put it inside our card to save on stamps.

Anyway I found the relevant section only to be confronted by a plethora of cards to "Nan and Grandad" or "Nanna and Grandad". I scanned the rack in growing frustration but the only "Grandma and Grandad" I could find was a large letter size so would have to be posted separately, which would cost nearly as much as the card itself. (Well I was in Card Factory)

At last, when I was about to give up in despair I found just one card of the right size for people with Grandmas not Nans or Nannas. So with at least a dozen choices for this Nanna person there was only one large and one small design for Grandma.

Now this I find hard to understand. I don't know anyone who has a Nanna. Seriously, among all my family, friends and acquaintances I can't think of one whose children say Nan or Nanna.

This being the case why would the shop have so many cards for her? I suppose one answer might be that there are hardly any Nannas only Grandmas so they have sold out of Grandma and are stuck with a lot of Nanna left on the shelf. But surely these shops aren't stupid and would stock what they have a market for?

So, in my long-winded way, I thought I would ask on here what names you all use for the grandparents so that I could tell whether IABU or Card Factory are. That's it really.

Use Moonpig in future then you can use a card you like and have grandma printed on the front.

This is why Moonpig exists. DD has a Grandma & Grandad and a Bonneke & Grandad (Mum's side is Flemish) so only Moonpig will do!

My parents are Granny and Grampy, DH's parents are Nanny and Grampy. Cards with these variations do not exist! At least not in Card Factory. I'm too tight frugal to go elsewhere. I had to buy Grandma and Grandad for my parents and Nanna and Grandad for the in laws. Couldn't find the right ones for our own grandparents either!

My dad is Bumpy (as was his dad before him, and his dad before him..), you never find that in a card!

Aside from him they have a Nanna, Granny and Grandad. It still confuses me sometimes though because I had the opposite pairings when I was a kid.

Is it a geography thing? We live in Liverpool and my daughter constantly asks why she doesn't have a Nanny or Nanna, as all her friends do. We try to explain that Granny and Grandma (who live in the Midlands) are the same, but she insists that they are not quite the same as they don't pick her up from school, and she doesn't go round to tea all the time... I often overhear her telling friends that she is going to her 'Nanny and Grandads' at the weekend when we have a trip planned.

Lol @ GrannyYuk

We have a Nana and a Nanna (although mostly referred to as Nanny as I kept forgetting and now Nanny has stuck). I get frustrated by the Nana vs Nanna spelling - IMO Nana is a yellow fruit, while Nanna is your parent's mother. But MIL chooses Nana so that is what we look for. My dad was Grandad, but we only had a couple of brief years to worry about cards for Nanna and Grandad before he died. But, yes, I remember the frustration.

I had no idea Granny was thought old fashioned. I have one and my daughters Grannys are both granny! (Granny and Grandpa and Grandma and Opa)

My son has a grandma and pops & grandma and pops & granny and grandad.

My mum is Granny, MIL is Granny, FIL is Dadgran - impossible to get cards so we do photocards instead

DH's Nanas were 'a bit rough' (to quote him) and did drink too much, were a bit loud and brash.

sound like fun to me!

My Nan's are polar opposite - Southern Nan SAHM, 5 children, very homely/men rule the roost, women should cook/clean/care and NOT work. Northern Nan always worked, 3 children, social clubs, brash, liked a drink, so much fun.

Both are amazing, unfortunately Northern Nan now has dementia and is very poorly, a shadow of her former self. Southern Nan, still going strong, looks 10 years younger than she is.

Having such polar opposite influences I am torn between both p.o.v - can see the good and bad points of both.

Sorry, I digress. Sitting here with stinking cold and miserable!

how strange. I was looking for a card saying 'granny' and all I could find was 'grandma' ... If you can find a granny one I will pick up a grandma one for you!

Granny and Grandad (mine)

Nanny and Grandpa (DH's)

Great Grandma (my Grandma)

Get her to make her own card - it costs nothing, and will be much more appreciated than a shop bought one, plus you can put whatever you like on it .

I can't stand Nan or Nanna, though my mum insisted on being called that when we had the DCs. We also have a granny, a grandad and a grandpa.

I have a Nanny and a Gran

DS has a Nanny and a Grandma

We agreed that each grandparent would have their 'own' name, to avoid confussion. This was fine growing up, as there were two sets, one Nan and Grandad, one Grampa and Gramma.
Then I married, and DHs parents have split and remarried, plus he still has 2 grandmothers.
We have:
Gramma & Grampa
Nan & Grandad
Nana & Papa
Nanny & Poppy
Grandmother
Memere & Pepere
Granmere

The kids have already told DH and I that when we become grandparents, we will be called "Aggy and Oggy" I don't know which one I am supposed to be!

Nana and Grampy

Blimey, - why didn't you just get a card that DIDN'T specify who it was for on the front!?

Kids will give their grandparents any old name, (and it sticks because people think it's cute), so it's no wonder that there is such a plethora of terms. I'm surprised that the card shop had as many variations as it did, - all those nannas and grannies and grandy-grandy-pops.

so that I could tell whether IABU or Card Factory are. That's it really.

Card Factory is NBU. It can stock whatever it likes. And you don't sound like an U person, - but you would be if you got arsey with anyone at Card Factory for their refusal to stock ENOUGH different types of card with the name you specifically wanted on the front

My son calls his grandmothers 'Nanny X' and Nanny Y'.

I think Nanny Y asked to be called Nana though but we don't see her that often and it was clearly to hard so we stick with nanny for both of them.

I called my grandmother 'nan'.

My son's BF calls his grandmother 'Nanna'.

I used to call my grandfather 'gramps' ('grumps' behind his back).

I cannot recall anyone I know calling their grandmother 'grandma'.

Mil is Nanna, my mum is Grandma, my dad and FIL are grandad .

DS has got Grandma and Grandad on my side and Nana on DPs side.

DM really wanted Nana but MIL already had GC who called her Nana and we didn't want to confuse them as we see them regularly. DM didn't want the same name as MIL.

When I was a baby I had 2 sets of Grandma and Grandad. When I got a bit older the names changed slightly to diffferentiate between them. On Dad's side it was Grandma and Grandad chickens (they kept chickens). Mum's mum was Grandmary, Grandad died when I was young.

Mine are Granny and Grandad
DH's father died before DS was born. His mother is Grandma