To expect Christmas cards?

[mintich]

For the last couple of years, I have received around half the cards I send out to friends. I normally get a text saying "thanks for the card but we aren't sending cards this year" I think it's sad that they aren't sending cards anymore. I get if people can't afford it but I'm pretty sure they can. It seems petty to only send a card if I'll get one back but that's how I feel!

Cards are made for people who are too lazy to pick up the phone and wish someone Merry Christmas/Happy Birthday/Condolence etc.

Good grief what an odd view!

Who has time to have 24 different phone conversations in a short space of time?

I like a Christmas card and I send them but I don’t get upset if I don’t receive one in return.

I send Christmas and Birthday cards and everyone who gets a card are people I talk to weekly, if not daily.

I also receive the same amount of cards back. My list only seems to get shorter as people die!

This will be my first year not sending cards (except to an aged aunt). I think they are pointless in an age of electronic contacts. I open the ones I get but never display them and the younger people I work work with apparently open and chuck straight away!

Yes, but it’s only ‘happy bloody xmas’, not ‘soz, your dad’s died

Not according to this poster it isn't!

Cards are made for people who are too lazy to pick up the phone and wish someone Merry Christmas/Happy Birthday/Condolence etc

People send cards because they cant be bothered to actually talk to someone

I would rather have a card than a shit load of people calling me. Cards are great to look back on, I keep all mine. My dad passed away 5 years ago on Xmas Eve and I am so pleased I kept all his cards from the 27 years of my life he was alive, I always get them out at Christmas, he’s never gonna write me one again and I’m pleased he sent them rather than just calling. Can’t physically keep and display phone conversations can you

I had a freind in college 30 years ago and i gave her a card

And she got out a box of cards in fornt of me!!!! And filled it out

I was

(Meant to be a lighthearted anecdote...not a treatise on society)

I love cards and send quite a lot especially Christmas.
We always seem to have a card holder full and more up at Christmas, it wouldn't be the same without.
Each to their own.

I don't send as many as I used to but continue to send a card to anyone who I think would miss it or be offended - yes mainly the older generation.

I give cards by hand to family and friends and post one to a friend in New Zealand. The price of stamps (and the fact they can be twice as expensive as the card itself!!) is what prevents me posting cards now to various friends we only see once a year but my DH or i do try and at least text or call them. We no longer have any elderly relatives who will gripe about not recieving a card.

Oh god you sound like my DM, always banging on about who didn’t send her a card this year

My mum is like that, she still whinges on about it in July! “it’s Steve’s birthday but he’s not getting a card as he didn’t send me one at Christmas”. My mum is offended by strange things!

I hate the fact that cards aren’t environmentally friendly plus they are just tatty clutter.
I can’t bear to have a shit load of mismatched cards on display gathering dust- straight in the recycling bin for me!

I never send cards, I can't see the point. My neighbours all send them to each other but given that we never talk to them from year to year I can't be bothered with that - the neighbours never say hello when they see us on the drive and they don't take parcels in either. I take their bin back up their drive when it's been left down the end on bin day but they don't reciprocate so I CBA to send them cards.

Christmas card to to people your u know you are not going to see (eg the family member in New Zealand) makes total sense.
A card to peel and friends you see regularly? Waste of time, paper and energy tbh

They cost far too much to post. December's a long and expensive months for many. Why add to it for something that will only see the bin?

Other than elderly relatives I don’t send any cards now. I realized that by sending the card I wasn’t wishing the individual a Happy Christmas but moaning about the time it was taking me and the fortune I was spending on postage. Now I either see someone and wish them a Happy Christmas or give them a call. The money saved has gone to the local food bank. I send e-cards to professional work contacts.

I like sending cards, and receiving them, but I agree, it's getting less popular.

I'm pretty sure a text is more lazy than sending a card!

People wish me Happy Birthday etc on FB, ring me up, or send a text. Very nice. But I really appreciate it so much more when someone has gone to the effort of going into a card shop, choosing a card they think I'd like, writing it, buying a stamp and posting it to me.

All these replies make me sad 😕I love the tradition of sending and receiving cards. I adore receiving a hand written card and I treasure them all. I despise e-cards

I agree it’s a generational thing.
I send cards because it’s a nice thing to do, and I speak regularly with the people receiving them.
It’s tradition I guess. I find I get mostly cards back, but don’t get offended if not.
I can see this tradition dwindling in years to come.
A text is ok but there’s something a bit nicer about receiving an actual card. I am probably old fashioned.

I can’t be arsed. I still send them to my older family but not doing the list if 50+ anymore

Christmas cards are a horrible waste of paper, and there's enough of that this time of year. I'd rather the trees than some mass-produced 'because it's tradition' card with some generic message.

I don’t even bother opening them I’m afraid

I'm quite in awe of this.

I send very few cards and I actually don't like receiving Christmas cards. They clutter up a house that is already overcluttered and I don't know where to put them. I often don't even put them up. I'd be fine if nobody bothered.

I detest Christmas cards with a passion any that come here go in the bin. I worked in a card shop for years and Christmas cards remind me how fucking miserable I was