to be annoyed how this Xmas card is addressed?

[mrsHawk1ns]

On the envelope it just had DH's name, and in the card it says to MrHawk1ns, MrsHawk1ns and kids. we only have 2 children, not 10! Would it have been so difficult to have written their names too? They're short names not long names if that makes any difference.

Crumbs, my dh's AFrican name is unspellable and unpronounceable. You should just see what gets written on our envelopes! Talk about Bongobongo (UKIP quote!)
And because we have cats, some people write Mr & Mrs Bongobongo and pussies Or they try and write his first name (similar disasters)
We have a right old laugh. And we're always delighted to get the cards. We have strings of them all over our tiny little house and I don't know where the next batch will go. Over the loo I expect!

Yabu.

I couldn't be arsed to write any cards this year - so they've made much more effort than I have...

I think after op has admitted SIBU it's time to stop piling in!

ive received a card this morn adressadresssed to smiley and kids..but mentioned the bloody cat by name..

You'd take serious umbrage with me, I don't write "to whoever", I just sign my name

DH threw out all of last year's cards from the neighbours so I've had to wait for this year's cards before writing ours. Mainly because although I know everyone's first names I'm not sure of the spelling or which kids are still at home. Imagine my dismay when one came with everyone's name signed at the bottom but I couldn't decipher the handwriting. That one got a 'to Peter, Jane and family'

Unless they're close family - parents or siblings then I wouldn't care.

I can imagine being a bit narked if say, my brother wrote "to the kids".

Well, mrshawk1ns, I'm with you. Family and friends who care enough to send a card, should include their names in my opinion.

Colleagues, distant family, old friends you never see may be excused. I think '& family' is acceptable in those circumstances.

Personally, I don't write cards to folk I don't know well enough to call their kids by name!

We had an odd one last year. An uncle sent a card naming me, dh and dd but missed out ds. It's not like he didn't know ds existed- I named him for this uncle's father! We'd had a long discussion about it! And the child in question was 4- not a new addition....

Yabu.

We frequently get cards 'to Sam, Steve and boys' or to 'Sam and family' or 'Sam, Steve and family' from neighbours or people at work.

I do the same...I'm on quite friendly terms with a woman who lives opposite us and we often stop for a chat and we've been to a couple of her barbecues over the years...but I'm buggered if I can remember what her 3 ds's are called. So she gets 'To Jack, Jill and boys'.

YABU.

I had a slightly dotty elderly great aunt who always included me on family cards...only it wasn't my name she including. It was a random Welsh name she had decided was mine instead. No amount of gentle telling her worked so my mum gave up in the end.

Bet that would make your head explode op

We even sign our cards " from Jill, jack and family "

But that's because we lost one child and it seem odd to write out all the other kids names and miss him out . And clearly it woudl be even more odd to include him

Although one year we did get a card from someone who wrote out the names of all the children, then remembered that one had died so they scored his name out and still sent the card

My mum and dad always sent their own cards from Mum name dad name and girls me and my sister they couldn't be bothered too write their own kids names out!

Have not read whole thread. YABVU and very precious.

My DAD this year sent me a card to 'Mrs' exH's name... despite the fact we are getting divorced and I have reverted to my maiden name.

I also had a card from exH's auntie, which was kind of her and everything, also addressed to Mrs exH, and inside instead of Merry Christmas etc she had put 'sorry about the breakdown of your marriage'. Erm... thanks?!

@ kristingle. Sometimes I've written one child's name and then realised I can't remember the second.

Next year I am just signing all cards from 'The Castafiores'.

No 'to' anyone at all just in case I know people have so little to think about that something like this cud offend them

I love that there are people in the world that give a shit about this sort of thing. It amuses me greatly.

Ok I'm going to be a lone voice here! I have no problems with "and family" or "and kids" (which I know is frowned upon in MN-land!) but I think it depends how the writer refers to their own family.

A few years ago a cousin of DH's sent us a card addressed "To GrumpyDP, GrumpyRedhead and kids, from Cousin, Cousin DP, child 1 and child 2"

To me, that reads like her DCs are more important than ours. Which obviously they are to her, but you (hopefully!) see the point I'm making.

So, OP, I know you've accepted YABU and all, but I'm with you

Hahaha worra!!

kristingle

Thank you clown

I can't believe how many threads there are complaining about Christmas cards. Ffs why would you care. Just be grateful you got a card instead of complaining about it not being addressed to your specification.

I can't believe so many people on here even give things like this a second thought let alone get upset about it

Seriously?