I never have and never will hand someone a Christmas card!

[Metalguru]

So I dutifully write cards every year to DH's family that we rarely see, and I try to include a few lines about our DC and not just sign our names. But I totally fail to see the point in handing a card with nothing more than To......, From.......... in it, to someone you are face to face with, nor do I have the time! Why not just say it? I met with friends at a soft play and the first thing they did was get cards out and hand them to each other, it's not really Eco friendly is it? that's my excuse

DoJo you expect people to actually keep cards? For years? Where are they supposed to store them all? This is a whole new world for me...
I love Christmas, it doesn't 'bring the worst out' in me as some have suggested about non-card givers, we often have oriole to stay for Christmas who have nowhere else to go, but cards? Don't get it.

People not oriole. What is my phone thinking of?

No - I don't expect anyone to keep cards - my husband does out of choice because he appreciates the things I write in them. My parents choose to keep the cards my son writes in because they are relentlessly soppy and cherish everything his tiny hands have ever touched, especially pictures drawn specifically for them.

My son doesn't get a choice - I have kept the cards I have written to him (birthday and Christmas) in his baby box so that he will have them when he is older. He may not give a shit, but they take up a minuscule amount of room in our house and basically form a twice-yearly diary of the most interesting things we have done with him so I am sure I will like looking back at them when he is older, even if he doesn't. I can see that it's not for everyone, but I can't see how my doing it would bother anyone else...

I think people should be free to send or not send, without other people being bothered by it!

I don't give cards to people I see frequently. I do send them to friends and family who don't live near, with a short letter. They might be getting new year cards this year, mind you...

It doesn't bother me, DoJo. You can do as you like. I'm bothered that my not sending cards seems yo bother so many people and make them judge me as mean, miserable or unChristmassy!

I don't send cards. And i do receive them. I'm not miserable it's just something I don't do. The main people who send them to us are dh's friends and he always says oh we must start sending cards. By we he means me. Nope! I love his friends but I'm not his PA!

I do give cards to close family though.