Is there a tasteful/non-tacky/non-cringe way of putting DC on Christmas cards?

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Obviously my DC are the cutest so should adorn all Christmas cards ever. But some may disagree.

Was thinking a nice shot with matching outfits and "Merry Christmas from the Yoplate Family" or something.

Tacky and cringe. Photo cards go straight in the recycling, I don't even bother displaying them.

I love receiving cards like that, and seeing the family and how the kids have grown.

I couldn't care if it's deemed as "tacky". I fail to see the point of a cheap pack of random cards bought in the corner shop, with a hastily written "merry christmas, love from xxx". I find a card that people have taken the time to order, and to write on much more friendly.

I keep the bland cards for my boss I don't send my boss a card, but if I was, I would send some crappy generic one my neighbours or the randoms. Family and friends are actually happy to see photos - and do various things themselves, so it's not just me!

If you feel it's smug to send news and to write a letter, you must have the wrong friends. I am happy to get news and updates from friends and families. My cleaner can get a landscape, I know my card will be binned within 2 minutes but she's happy about her bonus.

@GameOldBirdz

Why?

I'm interested to know why too Game?

Binning, on receipt, a Christmas card displaying happy kids, is a very bitter thing to do.

I personally like them and did them when the kids were smaller but they won't let me now

If you want something personalised, how about doing one with their artwork. I did something like this when DD1 was about 4

I've just wasted five minutes looking through the Queen's old Christmas cards and they are fantastic: lot of kilts, dogs, big hair, gawky teenagers, little kids, people caught mid-blink; cheesy casuals (everyone going for an unconvincing stroll, a bit like Reservoir Dogs) and faux picnics; several which look like any 1970s family photo (everyone standing in front of a random door, half the family not even looking at the camera).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-40836655

There's something really nice about a family photo to mark each year, assuming it's not a Kardashian-style ode to conspicuous consumption. No reason why you shouldn't send it out with or as a card. Anyone who feels obliged to sneer and bin it because they didn't get their standard holly/nativity/santa picture is being ridiculously unpleasant.

I like getting personalised cards from family and friends, but I admit I'd find it a bit odd to get them from acquaintances.

The last few years, the DCs school and nursery have done a thing where we can order cards made from the DCs artwork, so we've been doing that for cards to family and friends.

No, but do bung a photo in with the card!

Well there are a couple of reasons.

I'm not a big fan of colour photographs at all. The small number of photographs in my house are all black and white.

I'm also not a fan of having pictures of random children (nieces, nephews, friends kids) up in my house.

I'm also very picky about which cards go up in my house. Only the ones that I think are beautiful or go with my interior design go up.

I'm very shallow

I have done this

Because people have sent me cards with their kids (or dogs) in Santa hats and surrounded in tinsel and I have gone awww so cute and kept them for years.

They may be tacky, but it is Christmas you know, what's not tacky about it?

Bah humbug to you 🎄

Curating your Christmas cards to match your interior design scheme is, IMO, much tackier than any actual card could ever hope to be.

I guess it depends who you are sending cards to. A huge number of ours are to people who have some kind of relationship with the children (eg Cub leader, football coach, school teacher, as well as family) but I wouldn't send something so explicitly about my family to a business contact, for example.

Our school does Cauliflower cards with the children's artwork on - which is the obvious way of putting DC on the cards without having them gurning at your friends for weeks. I send those to people who know the children, and choose shop cards for those who don't (this year they're Nutcracker) or church cards for those who are actively Christian.

Curating your Christmas cards to match your interior design scheme is, IMO, much tackier than any actual card could ever hope to be

Curating your Christmas cards to match your interior design scheme is, IMO, much tackier than any actual card could ever hope to be

I have very limited shelf space because I don't have windowsills so I can't put up all the cards I'm sent. I have to select which ones to put up

Game I'm struggling with your reasoning too.

You would rather put up a card from your local bank because it matches your interior design than one from a dear friend.

I get it. Christmas cards are part of the Christmas decorations.

If you have an eclectic look, you can mix up nephew's handmade glitter handprint with neighbour's BHF robin scene and hairdresser's chinking champagne glasses, just as you put plain baubles and handmade salt dough on the tree.

If you're going for Instagram perfect, you read the non-matching card and smile, and put it in the children's craft box. Because once you've read it, it doesn't matter who it's from.

Do you display birthday cards? I don't - though the DC do.

Game I'm struggling with your reasoning too
You would rather put up a card from your local bank because it matches your interior design than one from a dear friend

Where did Game say she put up cards from her local bank? (Do banks even do this any more? I don't think so - we been customers of Barclays for 30 yrs, never received one) Don't put words into people's mouth that were not uttered.

It's Christmas - some people like tacky, cheesy cards, others don't. It's entirely up to the recipient, surely, what cards they choose to display.

This started as a light-hearted thread, asking for opinions. Don't turn it into a bullying thread.

Yes I display birthday cards for approx a week. When I look at them I am thankful that people remembered me and they make me smile. When I take them down and put them in the recycling, I tend to forget about them.

What is a cauliflower card, please, MrsH? Sounds interesting (I love children's craftwork to be displayed).

There is always one who has to use the word 'bullying' when someone disagrees with a post on an anonymous Internet forum. Please don't.

We have a lovely Bramley apple tree in our garden. Every year we put out baskets of the excess fruit at the front of our house for neighbours to help themselves. Last year, we had a really lovely card from a neighbour who is a childminder - her young charges had made a 'Thank you' card for all the apple crumbles they'd made with their childminder.

That was really lovely, and sent from their little hearts, so meant something. I had that on the shelf for weeks.

I love them. I love my friends and family, I love seeing photos of their children. I like that the Christmas cards on my mantle etc are a bit personal. What's not to like about photos of happy smiling children / families?

I'm boggling at only cards that match the 'interior design' being displayed. I stick up every card I receive, even if the image on the card isn't something I love. It's someone who has taken the time to write a card to DP and I, I appreciate that.

Although I do have a calendar composed entirely of photos of my wee nephew on my desk at work, so I'm probably tacky as fuck in the eyes of some people on here .

Yep - always one. You and a couple of others have 'ganged up' on Game, IMO, because she doesn't conform to your idea of what a Christmas card should be. Please don't! This is a light-hearted thread on opinions on Christmas cards. A jolly occasion. If Game doesn't choose to display cards she doesn't like, she doesn't have to. Simple, really.

Probably not. No.

You can do them for the grandparents. Ditto photo calendars.

Only. Seriously, nobody else would want one. They'd be polite. They might not.

And only until they're old enough to say "please don't do that anymore, it's cringetastic" (dd was about 7)