To utterly hate those self appreciating, smug Christmas Round robbins

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You know the ones that begin with "As another year draws to an end, I find myself sitting trying to find a few mins, to tell you how many wonderful holidays I have been on, and what gifted little children Jonny and Jane are blah blah blah, bahhhh humbug

My DM gets one every year without fail, from the most awful woman who writes about the whole family in the third person...

"there is absolutely no truth in the rumour that the only reason Dorothy has taken her new job as Headmistress at LaDiDah Girls' School is so that she can whizz up and down the M6 in her new sports car"

puke, puke, puke.

Oh I love these. The best ones are the bragging naff ones of course.

I have always secretly wanted to send one of those. Somehow I don't think I will now!

Kanyo you made me

I send a photo of the DSs in with the Christmas cards to family and friends we don't get to see often but that's about it

onelittle "we introduced the children to falconry this year and they loved it " brilliant

I hate round robin letters with a passion. We receive one every year which makes me wince without fail. It is always a blend of smuggery and boasting with the occasional "WTF " comment thrown in. Last year's included DCs attending top uni's, their contributions to world peace, the mahoosive house they had bought and succession of holidays, and then casually dropped in very specific details of the DWs pelvic floor surgery.....which was a nice touch, I thought :o

YANBU but on the other hand, my parents get one from an old school friend of my mum's and over the years we've howled at her boasting about numerous exotic family holidays, amazingly gifted children, ridiculous hobbies and our personal favourite, the year she chose the Christmas family newsletter to tell all and sundry about her 'heavy period problems'. She'd recently had treatment and finished by saying 'my flow is much better now'.

ballroompink that is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My cousin once sent one with full details of her firstborn's birth and I mean full.... her cervix dilations, etc etc...younger members of the family got a biology lesson there!

my great aunt sent a classic and a sentence started with 'My friend's friend Gladys......' 'Why would I bleedin' want to know about her friend's friend Gladys,' said my Nan....

My cat writes from his POV, in Christmas to various carefully selected people who find it funny friends every year, bragging about the number of mice he's slaughtered in the grain sheds, the local farm dog he's beaten up and the general chaos he's caused. As he's a mean & tough old farm tomcat, who lives on a working farm, he also slags off the staff (me and DH), passes comment on the softy wussy pet cats that live in the house and various other really offensive things.

My best friend finds it hilarious. It was initially written as a spoof response to his wifes round robin letter which is always unbearably smug and sent to our group of friends. As I can't stand his wife and she can't stand me because she's a carping shrew of a woman with no sense of humour, it always has the desired effect of winding her up. ALWAYS. The few other people who get the letter always take it in the way it was meant - a piss take. But then it is always written after a bottle of wine or 3

The best we got was from some ghastly cousin of DH - "blah blah, everything is wonderful, blah, so rich, blah blah, skiiing in Chamonix, blah blah, working in the City blah blah"

The silly woman updated her FB status the same day to say how very miserable she was, that she and her DH were now in an "open relationship" and she was looking for "men for pleasure without commitment".

We were

Love the cat version QuietTiger
We get several, the catch up ones from friends who live abroad are lovely to read but the boastarama from DH's cousin is still sitting on a table unread.

I get one from a lad I was at college (2 year long course) 20 years ago

They've been coming for 20 years now, all with stuck on prints of his ever increasing family. The pictures are all done in moody black and white and there is always some blurb about his wife and kids who I've never met.

I knew him for 2 years 20 years ago. He now lives in Canada. So he obviously pays the postage to mail this junk to everyone he was at college with and God knows who else.

I bumped into him at a shopping centre some years back and I desperately tried to eek out some polite smalltalk. He couldn't get away quick enough to which I was quite relieved. But it baffles me why he sends all this personal information about himself and his family year after year to a bunch of near strangers.

YANBU, but I do find these funny.

The only one we get that I tolerate with more than just scorn is from an old friend of my mum's who is genuinely witty and knows about a million people so really does send Christmas newsletters for a reason!

Even Her Maj is at it this year....here

YANBU we receive two and I don't even read them.

You all know funny people-I don't know why you stay in touch.
I get round robins but they are perfectly normal, newsy letters and love getting updates. I care about the people.If I got all these boastful ones I would simply stop contact.

YANBU, although I do get quite excited when I see one in a card. We got one this year with photos of the family's new business premises To be fair, they're my dh's friends, not mine, and if they were mine I'd probably be more interested, but instead it does induce a little guffaw

I agree with exotic fruits. I love getting these - great way to catch up on what's going on with people when life has been too busy to keep in touch. I'd love to send one but have been put off by reading threads like this. Would people just think it was smug rubbish? I hope not. I suspect my friends would think the same as me and just enjoy it.

Ba humbug to you old miseries - some people can find the negative or something to be whinge about in anything.

I've just sent my first one, and am slightly worried that someone will post extracts of it here.

I sent it as we are having a major change to our lives next year (good things) and it seemed the easiest way to tell everyone.

Is that permitted, I will I just look smug? Agghhhh! Too late!

YANBU but I do find them funny.

I've never received one but my parents receive one every year from the same person without fail full of exciting news such as "this year we've had the dining room decorated" along with a photograph of the dining room.

We always have a good laugh about it, it would be disappointing if it stopped.

I am with *Exoticfruits" I actually enjoy getting these newsy letters. We live abroad and I like to hear our friends' news with photos and lots of our friends are not on Facebook. I think it is much better to receive a round robin than just a card saying "will write in the new year." I shall have to admit that we send one too. It is only one side and mainly photos of the DCs and certainly doesn't list their achievements. Does that make me sad?