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Original poster

to hate christmas cards?

44 replies

realblueprint · 13/12/2013 20:55

I don't send christmas cards, and I bloody hate receiving them.

Have nowhere to put them, they clutter the place up and make it look untidy. They need dusting.

Bah humbug.

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pianodoodle · 13/12/2013 21:04

Indeed!

I'm just rubbish at thinking of things to write. Mine are all short and sweet "To blah Happy Christmas love blah xx"

Sometimes I don't know if that's worse than sending nothing Grin

KrabbyPatty · 13/12/2013 21:29

I'm with you OP.

We don't send them and we don't display them either. I think they will soon be a thing of the past.

My FB is full of 'We're not sending cards this year...' messages.

BaDaBing · 13/12/2013 21:32

Hate cards - make the place look messy!

SatinSandals · 13/12/2013 21:49

Houses must be very clinical if a few cards are deemed 'messy'. ( I bet it is said by people who make people take off their shoes)

StinkyElfCheese · 13/12/2013 21:53

yep me too i have 3 kids at school each class 30 kids they have had around 10 each ... i am going to have to go out and buy 90 cards ( the kids are begging and dd friends keep asking her when she is doing hers)

reception classes mums are writing the cards ffs ....... i have 58 of the buggers to do..... may just paint the cat and lay the card on the floor and liberey sprinkle the card area in catnip .....

dreamingofsun · 13/12/2013 21:59

oh thankyou for saying this. Each year i feel guilty for not sending them, but what on earth is the point in sending one and they dont even know all our names, let alone give any news?

what is the point of them? And yes, surely its polite to take your shoes off?

AnUnearthlyChild · 13/12/2013 22:03

Hate em

Don't send, and give those we do get to toddler dd to play with.

Terribly wasteful. Time, money, resources .

Sparklingbrook · 13/12/2013 22:04

I don't mind them. I keep them in a nice tidy pile ready for recycling on Boxing Day.

madmomma · 13/12/2013 22:07

Hate them, and it's precisely because my house is messy that I resent their presence

DancingLady · 13/12/2013 22:08

I've just been thinking the same thing, op. feel obliged to send them every year and really resent it... Just need to stop.

pianodoodle · 13/12/2013 22:08

Houses must be very clinical if a few cards are deemed 'messy'

It's just more fodder for toddler DD to make a mess with as there's only so much surface space out of her reach now Grin

I prefer "minimal" to "clinical" though :)

Clutter makes me Angry

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realblueprint · 13/12/2013 22:12

I wear shoes in my house, as do my guests (though I take my shoes off in other people's houses).

Of course they make my house messy - we don't have anywhere to put the bloody things, except for all lined up on the dresser, and every time someone shuts the door they all topple over. Waste of fecking time.

I also hate the way they seem to be a woman's job, just at a time of year when there is so much other christmas related stuff to do, we're all expected to sit there and write reams of christmas cards. Sod that.

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chickydoo · 13/12/2013 22:24

Have just done 50 cards to relations & friends we don't see all the time, but I am NEVER doing them again, a whole evening wasted. Next year it will be an email. I think they are thankfully going out of fashion, and in 10 years time cards will be deemed a thing of the past, fingers crossed.
Fwiw I display mine around door frames leading off from the hall, I just feel guilty if I don't put them up. How I love January when my nice clutter free home emerges from all the Christmas stuff.

pixiegumboot · 13/12/2013 22:26

I bought some card strings from the £ shop to peg them all up on the wall. Bonus, as now my nosey MIL can't help herself to them either without looking really, really rude and nosey, instead of just nosey.

TheMaw · 13/12/2013 22:28

I love getting Christmas cards, and I love writing them so there!

Aniseeda · 13/12/2013 22:28

Yanbu

Last year I decided I couldn't be bothered with finding places for them anymore so I just put them in a festive gift bag and stuck them in the recycling soon after boxing day.

I put a few up - ones that the senders are likely to visit and see them - but that's my limit from now on. It feels strangely liberating (most of ours are from DH's friends, aquaintances and colleagues so, if he wants them displayed, he is welcome to knock himself out but I suspect they will stay in the bag!)

pianodoodle · 13/12/2013 22:30

Funny we were just chatting and I informed DH that I've written and posted all the cards to my family plus any joint friends etc...

The rest is up to him. I don't want to set the precedent of doing his for him or I'll be stuck with the job forever :)

Gluezilla · 13/12/2013 22:32

Christmas cards = fire lighters in this house Grin

Bowlersarm · 13/12/2013 22:33

YABU

I love love love them.

ZoeZoeZoe · 14/12/2013 01:01

We always do a donation to charity in lieu of cards for the people we see anyway just sending cards to those we don't see

CooEeeEldridge · 14/12/2013 01:09

Chuck them then! Eventually people will stop sending you them and you'll never have to worry. Why get so uptight? You can tell what they are, just bin them in the first place.

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realblueprint · 14/12/2013 13:45

I stopped sending them 4 years ago, I still get em!

"Why get so uptight?"

Because it's AIBU, I have to state my cause Grin

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Sparklingbrook · 14/12/2013 13:50

i think 99% of people have a list that comes out year after year. They do a card to everyone on the list and don't even give it a thought.

ManAliveThisThingsFantastic · 14/12/2013 14:04

I opened a Christmas card yesterday, glitter fucking everywhere.

And all those with "special cousin", "special niece" etc. on that you have to return with the equivalent not just a regular out the box one. Xmas Hmm

GoldenGytha · 14/12/2013 14:26

I don't mind cards, I get very few, and I only have 12 to send,

However, I got 2 packs of 7 cards from Asda for 50p each.

The cost of sending them is at least 50p each, so £6 postage, and that's something I can ill afford.