AIBU to expect a Christmas card that isn't from a 'pack of five' from close family?

[SurferJet]

I know cards can be expensive, but it's only once a year & I'd like to think I'm getting a card that's had a bit more thought behind it.

AIBU?

[girlguide123]

YABU

if you enjoy buying special cards, great! I sometimes do myself, especially for close family.

however, not everyone wants to/can afford to/attaches that much importance to cards - you can't reasonably expect everyone else to adhere to your standards.

let it go & enjoy Christmas x

[ghostyslovesheep]

awwww this thread got all warm and fuzzy

[OhMrBadger]

Bloke queueing in front of me in WH Smiths yesterday, was clutching one that said 'To The Woman I Married'. Made me chuckle, it did.

[SirChenjin]

squoosh - I may even credit you as the sonnet's inspiration in my Poet Laureate acceptance speech if I get onto my second glass of peach Lambrini and come over all emotional

[SirChenjin]

One too many actuallys there perhaps.

[squoosh]

That is just beautiful. You'll be the Poet Laureate soon Sir, I can feel it!

[Theworldmakesnosense]

#firstworldproblems

[SirChenjin]

I'm liking that squoosh

Oh Hubby How I Doest Love Thee
Your back hair is bristlier than a Christmas tree
Actually my period is not due
You are, however, a big smelly poo
And sometimes I hate you.

I think that's coming along nicely actually.

[IamSantaClaus]

My close family are lucky if they get a tag so imo yes you are bu.

[shebird]

Jesus wept - If someone has sent you a card they have thought of you, even if it's from a pack of 40.
Does it really matter? Cards and postage so adds up.

[squoosh]

[squoosh]

'your back hair is bristlier than a Christmas tree'

[SirChenjin]

Funny how I never get past the first line of that sonnet squoosh

[squoosh]

SirChenjin you show him! And once you've reconciled you can get back to that sonnet you were penning for him 'Oh Hubby How I Doest Love Thee'.

[SirChenjin]

Golden - he bloody does, but instead of accepting that he was in the wrong for doing what he did and apologising, he started with the whole 'is you period due' thing

Anyway, I'm hijacking - sorry

[MizK]

Aaargh you sound like my in laws. All their cards have to be specific ie 'To a wonderful grandmother' etc. I don't do Christmas cards at all any more but they would kick off if we didn't get them their special cards. I would not love them any less if I gave them cards out of a box of 10.

I just don't like Christmas cards at all.They clutter up the house and cause unnecessary bother.

So YABU.

[ouryve]

Some cards in packs of 5 are more expensive than single ones.

YAB silly. They all get chucked in the recycling at the end of the year, anyhow.

[AliciaMayEmory]

I used to send individual named cards, but found that I could get much nicer ones in packs from the likes of John Lewis or m&s so have started doing that instead. Some of the named cards are really naff or sickly sweet so a pretty card from a pack can be much nicer IMHO.

[Goldenhandshake]

SirChenJin I think he knows

[We3KingyOfOblomovAre]

YABU
Dh and I buy a special card for our mums. Everyone else gets the same one from a huge pack.

[Summerisle1]

I think it's a generation thing isn't it?

Not round here it isn't. I'm 62. DH is 67. Our dms were in their mid 80s when they died and my gm would be 135 if she were still alive. Not a one of us have ever (or would ever) send a 'named card'. So not. Not an entirely generation thing I think you'll find but certainly inclined to be a 'specific to this family' sort of malarkey.

[OneFlewOverTheDodosNest]

Did everyone else miss the fact that NerrSnerr got a wedding present from her PIL's dog? And the fact that the PIL send themselves a Christmas card FROM THE DOG???

[Rafterplease]

Seriously?!!!!

I'm afraid when I get a christmas card I look at it for about four seconds, think 'what a waste of money that was' and ... well, I would throw it away, but DH is a big softie so I stick it on a shelf for a bit. And then throw it away.

Call me a grinch but the whole thing is a farce.

The thing that pisses me off most of ALL is that people who I'm about to see over Christmas anyway go to all the trouble and postage stamp expense of sending me a card and all they write in it is 'To Rafter, love Rafter's PILs'. That's IT. Why bother?!?!

[StrapOnDodo]

Dh and I bought soppy cards when we first met about 20years ago as a kind of kitsch consciously vomitacious act (like calling each other snooklebum or similar) ; they live in the Christmas box and come out every year. We also have Valentine cards from the same year which we also reuse.

I am giving hand painted cards this year to several friends who have sent photos to my phone of things they like- I have used the pics as a reference for the mini paintings. At least they are properly individual and unique- hopefully a nice surprise.