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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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to hate christmas cards?

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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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cardibach · 14/12/2013 14:27

TheMaw - how can you love writing them? Not doubting you, just not seeing anything to love - repetitive, boring, time consuming, expensive...
I haven't sent any for about 5years. THe year I decided to donate to charity instead was an enormous relief. I got a bit of flack and sent some email type ones to some people that year, but I have stopped that too now. I let everyone know where the money has gone (Philippines this year, Plan's Because I'm a Girl campaign for a couple before this). There was no way there was any Christmas spirit in them due to the resent I felt while writing them!
I don't mind getting them, but hate displaying them - I stick them to doors with blu tack to avoid the falling over issue, but it's a chore and my house is messy enough without adding another layer.
YANBU!

SatinSandals · 14/12/2013 14:29

I love the whole thing! Sadly I think the postage is making them a thing of the past. I am cutting back each year.

GoldenGytha · 14/12/2013 14:36

I think this may be my last year of sending cards too, money is just too tight to justify spending it on postage for people that I never see anyway.

Will continue to give the DC cards though, I do like choosing nice ones for them

FunnyFestiveTableRunner · 14/12/2013 14:45

I am definitely hearing more complaints about them this year than ever before, mainly because the 2nd class post is so dear. I only had to post about ten and will hand deliver the rest. I do feel like they keep a connection going with people you rarely get to see so it's a bit sad that they seem to be dying out - but as people have said there are other cheaper more efficient ways of keeping in touch.

ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 14/12/2013 14:46

I love getting Christmas Cards!!

I love choosing them, I don't mind writing them (I wouldn't go as far as to say I enjoy that bit!!) and I love to pop them in the post, knowing the people who they are sent to enjoy getting them as well (well most of them do, some I guess might be like you grinchy lot!!).

My house is normally very clinical minimalist, but I love the 'tat' of Christmas and the 'bliss' when it all goes back in the loft :)

What's not to love about Santa, Reindeer, Red Robins....

hiddenhome · 14/12/2013 14:49

Any I get go in the recycle bin unopened.

Unless, they're sent from somebody who lives away and I never see

Pointless bits of cardboard and we have no room to put them up.

LittleBlueMouse · 14/12/2013 14:50

I used to spend time pinning them to ribbon over the mirrors round the house, now I just open, read and shove in the drawer. Can't be arsed with it.

grimbletart · 14/12/2013 14:51

Wonder how many of those who think that an evening once a year spent sending Christmas cards is a waste of time, spend hours on the utterly trivial time-wasting Facebook and Twitter and posting on MN(which I would not dare call time-wasting or trivial…..).

ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 14/12/2013 14:51

OMG how rude - you don't even open them to see who has taken the time to send you good wishes?

Mintyy · 14/12/2013 14:53

Completely love Christmas cards! They are one of the best things about Christmas and I hope they don't disappear.

Some of you sound utterly joyless.

grimbletart · 14/12/2013 14:53

Agree chipping - rude and unkind.

So glad as an oldie I've had the experience of a traditional Christmas before it was taken over by pester power, plastic tat and grumpy Victor Meldrew types.

Mintyy · 14/12/2013 14:55

My mil has the same attitude to Christmas cards. She puts them in a drawer. Now that is one joyless lady. She is negative, pessimistic, obsessively tidy and feels that everyone is out to get her. I can't help but see the two things going together .

jerryfudd · 14/12/2013 14:58

Hate them too. Thought it was just me. I've already started phasing out. Last year, instead of card to my aunt and uncle and then individual cards to cousins they just got "to aunt, uncle and family" and so on. This year I have refused to get personalised ones - not even for mom and Dad - Close family will get one of the kids cards that they designed at school. I figure within next couple of years, making cut backs each year, I can have totally phased it out

TinyDiamond · 14/12/2013 15:02

hate them, I pretend I don't send them because of environmental reasons which is half true as my family do not recycle anything (arrrgh) so hate adding to that waste. Don't enjoy receiving them either as I feel they are wasteful and just fall down and are annoying.
I have a 2yo dd so she has made four cards for grandparents that's it.

SatinSandals · 14/12/2013 15:57

I think postage is easing them out, but it is very sad. It is my best part of Christmas, much better than the presents. I love getting them and the letters and displaying them. However I am trying to go online or phoning two for £1 postage is too much.

CocktailQueen · 14/12/2013 16:05

I like sending and receiving cards!! And we gave heart shaped card holders that go on the wall that I pop all cards into. No messy ones anywhere! Also blutack them up the stairs or on our glass dining room doors. Lovely!

CocktailQueen · 14/12/2013 16:07

Hidden home - what if someone has sent you money in the card?. I couldn't bear to throw away cards unopened. They might be from someone really exciting!!

hiddenhome · 14/12/2013 18:06

No money in them, just cards from colleagues

notimetotidy · 14/12/2013 18:13

I decided not to do them this year. They are usually sent the first week of December. It was an experiment to see if people only reply to the cards I send; they do. I now have a massive metal card holder thing with a card from my sponsored child in Kenya and an elderly Aunt (I've sent her one as I felt guilty!).

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