To think Christmas cards are becoming a thing of the past.

[Star4120]

Hi all, bit of a random one.

I have fond memories of my grandmother (she is 80 and still does it now) writing hundreds of Christmas cards for friends, relatives, colleagues (now old colleagues) amongst others. She would literally have piles of them and equally she would have hundreds of cards around her front room at Christmas. She’s always laid them out so neatly but so many 😅

The only cards I seem to have in the house at Christmas are either from older relatives, immediate family and for the kids from the kids friends at school!

I don’t really exchange cards with any of my friends! I write them cards but many of them just don’t do it themselves (which is fine of course!)

So is it becoming more of an old fashioned thing to send cards to everyone you know?

I will be sending out cards to immediate family and a few elderly relatives or family friends as I know they really like it but other than that I probably won’t bother?

Aibu?

YANBU. In my circle, they've been less common for quite a while, now.

Yanbu

Total waste of resources. Plus with covid it’s much riskier handing out cards. I’ve stopped and just give money to charity in lieu of the money the cards and postage would cost.

Definitely falling away and I think it’s sad. I will continue the tradition even if people don’t reciprocate. Perhaps if some of us keep going it will resurge.

Mine just arrived to be send out🙈
They go to neigbours, family and friends.

Agreed. I've not sent any for a few years. My colleague shocks me when she comes in and complains how much she has had to spend on stamps to send her Christmas cards out. Just don't fucking send any, Barbara.

Definitely NBU.
Hopefully this year will be the final nail in the coffin for cards. Not a moment too soon!

I am surprised that nation which has shops actually designated to cards, doesn't like Christmas cards😂

YANBU, they're definitely dying out. I think it's a shame to be honest. I still send them!

I buy 30 and when they're gone they're gone. They go to elderly relatives, friends who live a long way away and neighbours because it seems to be a 'thing' here. The postage per card is way above the value of the card, so I think it will gradually die out. For friends you are in touch with on Facebook or whatever an electronic greeting seems more sensible. I do usually receive a few Jacquie Lawson cards as well, but they give you the option to send a greeting.back.
I buy charity cards, direct from the charity, and I wonder how much charities will lose out if people stop sending cards altogether.

I used to send out about 40 - 50 every year. I got really sick of it so one year I delegated the task to DH, who then never actually got around to doing it. Nobody seemed to notice so I've never sent them since. This was around 2001.

I too loathe the wastage of Christmas Cards.... even Charity cards 🎄🧚🏻‍♀️

I asked friends and rellies to 'not send them' over 10 years ago

I just send to old relatives that send to us.

I love sending and receiving them. I think it’s really sad that the tradition will die out. Getting a text just isn’t the same.

I love Christmas cards and am mulishly continuing to send them despite hardly anyone else bothering

i used to send and receive masses. over the years the number has gone down. this year I only have 12 stamps. so that is all I am sending.

I've never exchanged cards with friends. My mum has only this Christmas stopped sending cards. She usually sends hundreds and spends all year writing them. I used to feel a bit sad that I only had a handful of cards on my mantle but it is a sign of the times.

I send them to people I don't see but nowhere near as many as my grandparents sent and received. I don't get why people say they are a waste - is writing a letter a waste? What's the difference?

I haven't written a Christmas card since I left school in 1999. I rarely get any but if I do I put them in the recycling as they are a bit pointless.

I am certainly getting and sending fewer Christmas cards - but I don’t want to see them disappear, because I really like them. They’re an important part of my Christmas decorating - I put them up on the glazed doors between the living room and dining room.

I stopped the Christmas card crap apart from dh, in-laws and very good friend a few years ago I just can’t be bothered, my writing is not good last year I was getting over major eye surgery so that’s it. No more hours doing the cards ect. No one really bothers anyway.

I stopped it a few years ago and make a charity donation in lieu. They are ridiculous because:

1. monumental waste of paper, money and resources / environmental impact.
2. who the hell needs more wife work in Dec
3. people want less clutter hanging about 4)Stamps are fucking expensive
4. happy COVID Xmas ... here's a card I've licked 🤣 6)DH expressed that he thought we should continue sending them about five years ago .... he has written zero cards ever.
5. i could go on but you get the idea

I buy the cards with DD’s design that raises money for her school and give them to close family and friends. I maybe sent 15-20 cards at most.

They are such a waste of resources and postage costs a fortune! I’d rather donate that money to charity.

It will be a sad loss for charities who raise quite useful sums from the sale of cards. And I rather like receiving them from people far away who I haven’t seen in years - old school or uni friends from decades past, with a brief news catch up.
Cards are also a free and simple way of decorating your drawing room for Christmas - I keep particularly attractive ones from previous years and add them to the current crop to put all round my bookshelves. Nowadays there are some extremely funny and clever ones, which give me a laugh in the midst of the frantic preparations.
I hope they don’t disappear. They are after all optional - if you don’t like them, don’t buy them, but let us devotees carry on writing them!