To expect a 'sister' card for Xmas from my brother

[mightyducks]

His card arrived today in the post, just a bog standard one out of a box of cards. I always get him and his wife a 'to my brother and his wife' card every year. He used to but the last two years it's been a box one. AIBU?

This has to be a joke thread. Please let it be a joke thread.

This has to be a joke, right?

Xmas really does make people go loopy over the strangest things doesn't it?

Oh, also gave MIL an "out of the box" card one year, wasn't impressed, the following year she went on and on at DH saying she wanted a "big" "mum" card, think the foot tall hideous thing he bought from the pound shop which was literally made of thin paper shut her up, it's nonsense! We all know how we are related!

WHY do people send cards anyway
PLus to people they live with
plus NAFF to have sister cards

I have never ever seen a nice 'relationship' card, would much prefer a nice normal one.

This is my first married Christmas and DH and I are having a competition to buy each other the worst husband and wife ones. Mine's a cracker, it has PAGES with different verses on...

My 2 sisters and I stopped sending cards to each other years ago. My other sister hasn't sent one for at least 30 years. My brother used to send one more than 10 years ago but as he has two homes I never knew where he was in December. It turns out that my sister told me yesterday that he always sends her and my niece and her husband one every year. He also telephone them 2/3 times a year but the last time he rang me was 8 years ago. When my sister told him that my DH was in hospital last year he changed the subject and even though she has spoke to him 3 times since he never asks how we are. I could go on about the in-laws they are even worse. Families are not worth the bother.

never bothered buying those, they get a boxed card.

I would rather get a boxed card with personal message than a card addressed to me as sister with just a generic message and signature.

DH went out to Card Factory this year and bought home personal cards for his family. I don't like them or the poems in them but it's not a big deal. They were cheap.

My parents got a boxed card and phoned me to say how nice it was. She lives overseas and nice boxed cards are expensive where she lives.

Off topic but I really wish I could find a voice recordable card but they don't seem to exist anymore. I sent one once, and my parents have kept it, and ration how often they open it so they can save the battery.

My in laws do the whole cards thing at Xmas. OH and I can't be bothered but have to do them as they are expected.

I found a shop that does 3 cards for £1, so that's where I'm getting them from.

No it doesn't really matter at all in the grand scheme of things! It was just a small thought when I opened it this morning. I get my close family ie mother/father, sister/brothers special cards as I just think it is nice to get them nicer cards than I give to the neighbours who I don't know the names of.

I haven't even received a card from my sister who lives round the corner and I see a few times a week but I don't actually give a shit, honestly I wouldn't stress about it op

All those who are saying "who actually cares, and is this real?" there are actually people out there who are complete card freaks my mum being one of them
It HAS to be a special mum and dad card, all hell would break loose if it was a normal boxed card.

I much prefer box cards. Those one with "to a dear (insert relative here)" always make me a little bit sick.
They usually seem to come with a naff poem and an over-use of glitter too.
Each to their own.

He sent you a card. Plenty good enough in my world.

yabu i never send my sisters and brothers a card we see each other at least 3 times a week
its the thought that counts

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I haven't even had a card from my brother. In fact I can't remember the last time he sent me a birthday card. Or phoned me.

So in the grand scheme of things, get a grip.

Ha ha ha. What an unbelievably petty thing to get in a stew about.

I still think this has got to be reverse AIBU. Nobody really gets upset about this kind of thing do they?

What a shit your brother is!

Not really.

Dp's sister sent one with 'John & family' (not real name) and inside it said nothing but 'Jane & Fred' (their names I mean).

So yes, YABU. I always wondered who it was required the massively specific cards in card factory saying 'to our dear step son and his fiancée'!

They are never very nice. I always find it a bit weird how specific they can be "To my daughter and son-in-law", "To Dad and his partner" etc

My grandma was like this. Who would have thought that you could actually buy cards "To a dear granddaughter and her husband"?

You can, incidentally, I (and my husband) have received several.