AIBU XMas cards vs boxed ones?

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My mum has had a huge rant at me over xmas cards she has recieved from me DH and kids....

I sent

1 x mum & 1 x Dad card from me and DH.... just about acceptable.

1 x nana card & 1 x grandad card (3 kids).....

I should have sent 3 nana cards so 1 from each child. Same with grandad cards and uncle cards.My DB has SN and is 'home' for the holidays' and should have sent another 4 cards to my sis??????????????????????

So i sent 4 cards... according to my mother i should have sent 8 to them.

Oh and they have to be 'named' so have Nanny on the front - boxed cards are not acceptable even in card factory they are at least 85p each and i cant get away with a cheap one

IABU to say no more bloody expensive cards !!!!

YANBU definitely. I actually think you've sent too many cards to them anyway! The only cards worth getting from children are ones they've made themselves imo.

YANBU that is totally ridiculous.

We see each other and do one card to each person, from all 4 of us. So granny gets one from all of us and grand-dad gets one from all of us.

If we were sending them then it is to everyone in that house from everyone in this house IYSWIM

I've never purchased a 'named' Christmas card either. Colossal waste of money to get so many for each child to give in your case IMO. Everyone I know gets boxed cards.

YANBU.

My PIL are the same about "named" cards and don't send a single card that isn't "To my Son and his wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/dog/budgie/neighbour" and similar. They are always the massive cards, "classic" in design (ie a watercolour of a robin on a postbox) and have pages and pages of typed verse inside. Costing about £5 per card. I very much appreciate the thought that goes into picking it, but still think it is madness!

I don't buy into it. I send them a card, but it is the same as all the other cards I send, from a box, and always a charity card.

Your Mum is being unreasonable and as bonkers as my PIL

Haha, bloody hell YANBU! My family all got one per household, signed from all 4 of us. DS1 made us a card at school but apart from that, everyone gets one from the 3for2 boxes from Tesco.

Yes it is bobbins but I can empathise. I could only find one "To Great-Grandma" card this year and therefore bought the same one for each great-grandma, which would be fine, however they are going to cross paths briefly this season and only speak to one another to swap signs of being the favourite great-grandma.

I just know one is going to say to the other "Oooh I had a LOVELY card from great-grand-Pishwife with a sparkling robin on saying "Best Great-Grandma." Fur might fly.

I hate the "To my daughter and her boyfriend and their cat" type cards. Went in Clintons today and there were aisles and aisles of them, plus a bunch saying "To Sarah" etc., and various rude ones. Not much left that was just normal, nice cards.

I only do boxed cards, TBH my family are lucky if they get a card at all!

MIL does the Son and DIL/Grandkids cards, and we have a competition each year as to whose has the most waffley verse. :o

WTAF?? She's lucky to get any cards, Christmas cards are a major PITA and I HATE doing them. One next year, "To you from us". Done.

Good lord. Yanbu. Mad as a box of frogs.