to NOT buy my child's Christmas card

[Crunchymum]

£6.50 for a pack of 10 and quite frankly its not very good (he is not yet 4 and its actually pre-school)

Much nearer the time like fucking December we were going to make some cards for family with lots of glitter and stuff.

However there is a bit is a begging letter "all monies go to the poor, underfunded PTA" and the kids seem to have been indoctrinated [my almost 4 year old has mentioned his cards a million times already]

Shall I just suck it up?

Our primary school tried this a couple of times when mine had only just started there (reception I think).

I never bought them. Far too expensive. Also, I object to any attempt to use my children to guilt-trip me into paying extortionate amounts for something.

As others have said already, you end up contributing financially in so many other ways (non-uniform days, raffles, tombolas etc.) so no need to feel guilty really.

I've never bought them. They are expensive & rubbish

I think him being excited trumps the school's emotional blackmail and would buy them if I could afford it.
Have said it before but I hate the PFB thing being used as an apology for being sentimental about your child. So what? Emotions aren't weakness. Save the apologies for when you're blase and don't give much of a crap - then call them your DGR - Disappointing Genetic Replacement perhaps.

I'm on the PTA - we do them every alternate year. Personally I hate them - I only send the odd Christmas card anyway (guess about 4 a year) so the minimum of 10 cards is too many for me anyway - especially when you have more than one DC in the school and you end up with 20 or 30 ...(although in theory they can do a design at home -so you could get them to do a joint one and not use the ones done in school - but then that's the ones the DCs want...).
To use them up, you can leave them blank inside and use them as thank you cards as well ...but I would prefer my DCs to make ones themselves. In fact for eg my parents the DCs will make cards to send as well as the one they did at school... I get my DCs to make all cards for the family -they prefer that. (In fact my DM was really disappointed one year we didn't have time to make a mothers day card so bought one and the DCs wrote lots in it - but apparently her face fell when she opened it)
I don't even think it is that fantastic a fundraiser - iirc we get orders of close to £2k and get less than £300 in commission.
I would drop them BUT apparently lots of parents do like them and buy them - for every parent like me there is one that wants us to do them - in fact asks us about them in the year we aren't doing them...
And you do need to get them in early to have them in time -they take a lot of sorting out for the PTA - and also you need to let parents know about them before they buy Christmas cards elsewhere...

I am not sure at 4, I probably would because he is excited and it's his first one

I did this in primary school, I was about 8/9 and it was only that one year we did it. My parents bought the card and over 20 years later I can still remember exactly what it looked like and how proud I was to have made my own real proper card. I could draw it almost exactly as it was from memory. My parents kept one and then gave others to grandparents etc, I think they still have the one they kept