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!

Yes very!

How weird that people think cards are antisocial.

I see almost all of my friends over the Christmas period and wish them Happy Christmas in person, but I like receiving cards - I love seeing them all on display collectively, and coming home to a new one every day.

And without Christmas cards, you lose the annual joy of reading naff Christmas letters.

To those people who don't even open the cards before binning them, are you sure beforehand that family or relatives have not put money or a cheque in there for you? You could miss stuff and not thank someone for something.

We don’t know anyone that would send cash through the post. The ones I don’t open are because if they have addressed the envelope to “Mr/Mrs DHname” or any variation thereof then any cheque inside would be unbankable, and after 14 years of pointing that out I’m done.

Waste of paper.

Don’t bother with cards. Don’t see the point.

Despite how many times you tell them...
Some people think sending cards is all about the sender, its not about the receiver.

I only send cards to my older relatives, I keep in touch with friends on social media so what's the point in sending cards? Besides the price of stamps these days is eye-watering!

I don’t do cards at all.

I detest sitting and writing them, and the chore always fell to me as DH would leave it too late to post them.

They’re a waste of good timber IMO, collect dust and irritate me when a gust of wind blows them over.

I don’t even do birthday cards for adults anymore either and the main catalyst for giving up was stepMiL and her mother, both of whom would phone and ask where their card was if they didn’t receive it on her birthday/at Christmas. They’d also phone they day before your birthday or at some point in December and tell you to come and collect your card, which I found incredibly rude.

I much prefer to send a card, with a polite message, than to call everyone on my list. I have a lot of older relatives though. I also post as few as possible. No one has ever complained about getting them and I never expect tonnes back. Letter writing, card writing - and non Christmas card choosing are an art form, I think, and I love it. I also find it more natural, personal and more comfortable to write. Getting a blast-text tells me you don't give a shit. DM and I both have artist friends who design their own and it's still fabulous to get these

Haven’t done cards for at least 10 years. Absolute waste of time

I still send cards, and like receiving them. They form part of our decorations, blu-tacked up where they're not in the way. We have a lot of very far flung old friends who we might see occasionally, so they're always on the list.
Given the cost of postage I can well understand anyone at all hard up not sending them. Two couples we know very well have stopped sending cards - they are donating the money to charity instead. Which is all fine and good, but they all have plenty of money - enough for lots of lavish holidays, so the real reason, I am sure, is that they just CBA.

Which is also fair enough, but I do wonder why they can't just admit it.
Dh absolutely hates doing the very few he HAS to do - procrastinates for ever and takes ages to write a few words - so I can well understand anyone saying they really CBA.

I haven't sent Christmas cards since I was at school (and I left in 1999). I also have to confess I throw away any I get in the bin. Not really sure what the point is of them, they're just clutter.

Waste of space waste of paper. They just end up in the bin. I would only send cards to people I still see and mean something to me so I just wish them merry Xmas when I see them.

What’s the point of “wasting” any material or energy form on any non-essential item then, especially if it’s for someone else?