to find christmas cards annoying

[whiteandyelloworchid]

ok its a bit bah humbug, but christmas cards really bug me, they make the place look scruffy and i cant wait to take them down.

ive put them up nicely, but they spoil my nice coclour theme as they are all coulours and messy

Oh, they're very annoying. The least good part of Christmas.

Yabu. Sticking the cards our family receives to doors/hanging them from shelves etc means I don't have to buy shiny foil decorations to go up. So our friends have helped us decorate our lounge :)

I've never liked Christmas cards. Have only sent to grandparents this year. And I don't put them up but will put close family ones on the windowsill. Actually we've received less this year than usual, my bah humbugness must be catching on.

I reuse the ones the DSs bring home from school as tags for Christmas presents. They don't notice and it saves me buying tags.

Win win!

I don't send cards due to disorganisation and the fact it costs 50p for a stamp but I do send lovely photo thank you cards with a proper letter in.

Yanbu. U open mine and throw them straight in the recycling bin. They also say to... From.... Hardly interesting or personal. And makes me think I'm just a name on a list of doom which someone is trudging their way through due to ILs fashioned formalities. Waste of time, I don't bother.

We too have a large pile accruing on a kitchen shelf. Can't bear them. Especially the cheapo ones from the fucking milkman that won't stand up. I'm sure my Mum thinks I have no friends, then she sees the pile and starts putting them up. Ds says 'Nan, Mum doesn't really like the cards up all around the house' and she looks at me like I'm a crazy person.

I get the fact that OP thinks it ruins her decor - that's not the reason I don't put them up though, I just don't like them, comments like 'to Von family from Matt, Cassie and 'bump'...bleurgh...

We do have a lovely tree and other deccys up though, it's just cards I dislike.

I'm sure my Mum thinks I have no friends [Quote}

I'm sure my mum thinks this as well. She sends out and gets about sixty cards at Christmas. I send and get around twenty. It's a generational thing. Some of the people on her list she hasn't seen in about twenty years but still they send cards. I suppose it's nice in a way but nowadays with emails etc. it doesn't really serve the same purpose as it used to.

You need to get a better class of friends who are well acquainted with the proper, posh, in-keeping colours and styles for Christmas cards that tone in naicely with your decor.

YANBU

Hate the damn things, always have.
In fact I think cards in general are a PITA.
Stopped sending Christmas cards about 10 years ago and instead make a donation to a charity. last year I bought a goat from Oxfam.
Fortunately my family are finally catching on and have stopped sending them.
I can see the point of sending them to relatives overseas etc, but someone I see all the time... WHY!!

I'm fed up with them as well. I have just finished writing them and have cut the list down a fair bit this year.
I will, however, always send to family, especially the older members who we don't see that often, as I know it means a lot.

They are annoying and messy as well. I put them up in the family room, so I don't have to look at the gaudy multi coloured, unstable things they are. I'm not having my lovely elegant colour scheme ruined either OP!

I read them then put them in a drawer - I'm no fan of paper anyway, and cards can't be recycled. After Christmas I either bin them or make gift tags out of them (my bit for the environment). They do look rather tacky displayed, and with the few cards I get, it would look even tackier.

I think possibly there are other things to worry about.

Yanbu I don't like them either. We have also stopped sending them and instead donate to charity (this year it was refuge). DD1 did make cards to post to her grandparents and great grand parents but I think that's different somehow

I have a card holder, i put the ones that match my colour scheme on the top!!

lol good to see some fellow card haters

good to see i'm not the only meanie!!

i dont put ours, up they make the place feel cluttered and untidy,it would drive me mad lol

Put them up facing the wall OP. All white.

I was actually saying this to DH earlier, I just can't be bothered. I have some up, ones for each other and our parents, abroad and the handmade ones (people have gone to effort to make them) but the 100 for a pound don't stand uppers are in a pile! And at least put my name on them rather than just from X &Y!

I am very anal particular about my house & it's the same at Christmas, I spend a long time getting things "just right" because I am tragic and should get out more

People have no consideration for my beautiful decorations when they choose their nasty 3 wise men on camels cards - how very rude of them. But I am grateful that they think of me at this time of year.