To think of you can’t be bo here’s to add my kids names to our Christmas card or even get the spelling right, don’t bother Sending one !

[Lardlizard]

Honestly I’ve got cards addressed to Mrs lizard and family
Not even my dh name

Some with my dd name but not my ds name

Some spelt wrong

The oddest ones are the ones with my dd name on but not my ds Though !
From cousins etc

What’s the point
As you basically y sayin I don’t even know your kids names or how to spell them or even your dh you’ve been with 20 years !!

Hate cards anyway make the place look messy !!

If that person was a workmate and you've never met their kids (although they've been brought up in conversation) it is perfectly reasonable to send your card to .. and family.

I do it quite a lot just to save time, don't we all?

Oh, the irony of this OP; so badly written, so uppity about written communications...

Well aren’t you just a barrel of Christmas joy.

Merry Christmas @Lardlizard and family 🥳

I'm guessing this is satirical?

I hate people that overuse exclamation marks !!

And random
Paragraphs!

Honestly!! You sound like a divvy !!

!!

Well aren't you full of Christmas cheer!

You've put them in the bin!? How rude. Heaven forbid that anyone thought of you in the season of goodwill.

Get a bloody grip.

I received a complaint about one of my Christmas cards. For many years, I'd deliberately misspelled a 'Bam...' in their address as 'Bum...'. They didn't find it as funny as I did, and eventually plucked up the courage to ask me to desist. Writing the Christmas cards isn't as fun as it used to be.

my kids are grown up now. so apart from family, I just put samcro, mrsamcro and family. and address it the same.
some people just want to be offended. what with this and the card being addressed wrong . who really cares.

I don't even bother naming my own family when writing cards 🤷🏻‍♀️

To X

From

Teentree and family

at thebluearsed

I always moan and contemplate not doing it when the time comes to write Christmas cards but I always value it when I've done it - there are many people I love but rarely get to see these days and I'm glad Christmas prompts us to share news and send good wishes. It usually triggers the arrangement of some get-togethers as well.

I take it you don't send cards since you dislike them so much, lard, which means the senders you're excoriating so much demonstrably are giving more effort and kindness to you than you are to them, even before you get into your ungracious and ungrammatical moaning about how the cards don't meet your standards.

It's amazing how many people can't be "bo here's" to proofread the title of their thread.

One of the most annoying thing about having friends is their propensity to add typically 1-4 additional human beings to my sphere of existence with no consideration for how that affects me

I mean, if you were friends with someone and they insisted on bringing a few of their otherwise-unconnected friends to everything, and you had to write their names correctly in a card and remember their birthdays etc etc? You'd get pretty tired of it, no?

(lighthearted, in case anyone was wondering!)

You're complaining about them failing to individually name check everyone when all you do is open the card, get offended and chuck it away? Let them know you don't want cards in future and look for something else to be offended by. I'm sure you won't be short of ideas.

So tell your friends Stockholm Syndrome has a lot to answer for to stop sending you cards if you hate it so much, you drama llama.

Oh good grief, some people literally find anything to moan

Just when you'd heard everything anyone could moan about!

My memory is shocking. I sit there trying to think of the names of kids I know really well and have done for many years. Ditto someone's partner this year. Obviously later on, the names pop into my mind but at the time it's just not there.

I mitigate the problem by writing the names in my address book but each year there are different people whose names I forget. I've been like this for years but it's getting worse as I get older.

It's honestly not deliberate. It's actually very embarrassing. It's also nothing to do with intelligence.

You sound incredibly self-centred and ignorant.
You can't even spell your thread title right and you're moaning because people get your kids' names wrong.
You bin their cards anyway
You are being VERY unreasonable

P.S - You get bonus 'unreasonable points' if your kid's names could be spelt in a number of different ways (and win the Unreasonable Jackpot if you've given them some bastardised version of a common name)

I certainly do feel like family should remember what my children are called. The one from my mum's adopted parents, just before she died (thier only contact with me at the time)with just 'from' and their names took the biscuit.

Well aren’t you quite the spirit of Christmas? You sound like a miserable and ungrateful scroat and there’s a certain irony to a) complaining about getting cards when you then say you don’t want any and b) complaining about the illiteracy of others.

You'd like my cards then, I don't write the 'to' part in at all I just write 'from Dutchesss'.
The envelope would be addressed to 'Grinch family'.
It's the thought that counts.

I got a card to allat "21" from us at "32" I don't even know anybody from no 32 ive never seen them fconfused

I did that first Christmas after moving in. Gave cards to few houses around hoping to get the names back so I know who lives where. Apparently I would be a massive wierdo if I went to knock and introduce myself and I really wanted to have some idea who lives around.
Worked perfectly! Send one back to them. They will be grateful. Next year you will get one with names, not just house number😁

Haaa the irony, whining about someone's spelling when your thread title has errors.
Someone thought of you enough to send you a card you do not want because it's messy yet you still criticise it.
Praps enter into the Christmas spirit and cheer up a bit.

It’s Dreeci, we found her!

Oh the irony

I'm also not sure how a line of cards on a mantelpiece or a shelf can be 'messy'. Christmas is kind of the epitome of 'mess' isn't it, with all the wrapping paper and discarded mince pie foil tins and spilled icing sugar and bits of sellotape stuck to the carpet and dropped gravy...

...sorry, OP, am I making you twitch?