To think cards with the recipient named on the front are common?

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Class issue alert: inflammatory if you are bothered by that sort of thing

I was told that cards with 'To my wife/Grandad/Auntie' on the front were considered a bit non-U.

AIBU to go on thinking they're still a dead giveaway of background? Or are they OK?

Sorry, what are you on about?

Eh? What is non-U? How do you know who the card is for if there is no name? Why do you care if someone can tell what class you are?

What do you mean??

What the fuck is a "bit non-U"?

I'm with you x

Why the fuck do we need a trigger warning on a Xmas card thread?!

Eh??

I couldn't give a toss. HTH

This kind of shit is what I hate about the UK and what makes other nations laugh at us. It holds us back. Pathetic

Well I buy them for Mum and Dad but that's it. Never thought of them as an indicator of anything though.

I'm with you too.

Not sure but since I work for the largest greeting card company in the world I'm intrigued and will be following.

I heard this, but it didn't stop me buying personalised ones for my mum because I knew she liked it.

I muat admit that I find them a little tacky, but not sure that's any indicator of class in modern Britain! IME the only people who fret about such things are lower middles

People go bonkers about class threads.

The 'To X' is on the cover, obvs.

Completely non-U.

Still a giveaway.

Also, assume you use 'Auntie' as ironic, knowing illustration.

Otherwise Nancy will haunt you tonight..

marking my place. wtf?

I agree

I think you can get awful, tacky cards that don't have names on the front, bit it's all down to taste isn't it?

No one is going bonkers, I think people genuinely don't understand what you're on about.

Do you mean the envelope, or the cover of the card?

Never understood why you need a card that says "Merry Christmas Mother" unless your mother has some condition that prevents her from knowing she is your Mother - and in that case it's probably moot anyhow.

They do seem very popular though - so common in the same way as, say BMW cars.

Non-U - person using this is aspiring class jumper in the mould of Hyacinth Bucket.

Basically making the erroneous assumption that the upper classes do things radically differently than the oiks.

However, Debretts makes no comment on the matter.

www.debretts.com/debretts-a-to-z/c/christmas-cards/

And what IS non-u?

I have no idea what non-U means (please someone share!) but I agree named cards are about twee, mil always goes in for them but I think it's a generational thing, I find them quite dated

A Christmas card to Nanna is probably considered common. To grandmama perhaps not so much!