To ask when to stop sending named cards?

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At what point do you stop buying cards with 'Dad' or 'Mum' etc?

Is it when you have your own family etc or when you get married, is that when you start buying cards such as 'from all of us' or 'from our family to yours'?

What kind of cards do you buy/send?

Never did, I think once you’ve started you need to keep going

Unless you take the opportunity to break it this year by saying you didn’t want to go to the shops and got a pack delivered online or something.

I meant I never did buy them, but if you are you need to carry on!

I have never bought cards with “mum” “brother” “Grannie” etc on them, it’s just not what my family does so no one is offended about it. I don’t think there is a rule - it’s whatever you feel is best and suits the person you’re buying for

I have never chosen that kind of card anyway. It has never been compulsory.

I should add I now have DS and DH who I add on the cards but it feels... I don't know, slightly uncomfortable? Adding DH name onto a dad card with a lovely dad message 😂

I'm thinking I might just start sending generic ones!

Also you can stop any time. I choose cards for the image on them usually not because it says Mum/Dad etc.

You don’t you also start buying grandparent cards

Btw you can get to mum/dad/mum and dad from both of us

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My Canadian uncle sent me an Easter card once "to my niece across the sea". Gotta love Hallmark!

DH and I do give each other husband/wife cards though.

I put us all on a ‘dad’ card for my dad. Always have.

I've never bought them - always just a card out a pack.
My dc used to make them for grandparents though when they were little.

I have and always will get mum for my mum. And Nana from the DC.

I always used to buy a Mum and Dad card, now just Mum sadly. It makes a card more personal than one out of a pack of 10. Mum always comments on the words and she knows I've taken time to choose one. I've always bought them for my parents and won't change that now. The only other personal one I buy is for my OH (boyfriend, fiance - depending where we are in our relationship - hopefully a husband one next year...).

I haven't stopped.
My parents get loads of cards, but only 2 Mum&Dad ones (or possibly only 1 depending on what DB does).

I have never done this.
Mainly because I they are so expensive in comparison to a pack of Christmas cards.

We send generic cards from the whole family.
We put in a personal message to most (not all, and sometimes just a line)

My mum thinks it is odd to send Christmas cards to people you see on Christmas day, so we don't get one from her.

In answer to your wider point about sending a 'Mum' card and signing it from you hd and ds, we often address cards inside as
To Mum/Nora/Granny,
love from
Me dh and dc

That is a bit of a joke though as my Mum hates being called Granny by me or dh, she likes us to use the correct name.

We buy cards with the name of the closest relation. So I buy mum and dad cards for DHs parents and my parents and we sign them from both of us. When baby is born we will buy separate cards from them because I'll be teaching them to buy their own cards and presents as they grow older, so get in the habit now, when they can they choose, when they can they pay.

I agree with previous poster, go with the closest relative. So mum card to your mum from you and DH.

I think you are worrying too much OP. Just pick any card you like at the time. It's not like your mum is going to open a "mum" card, see that it's signed from you, dh and dc, and be confused and start yelling "whaaaa this isn't right I'm not DH mum I'm not dc mum this is all wrong!!!".

I've never bought cards like that. I do buy nice individual cards for special people, rather than give them a card from a multipack, but not with names on.
My exception is a friend who does like this type of card, so I try to get her a birthday card "for a special friend" because I know it's important to her.

I never used to but have started in the last few years now my mum's memory is shot. It stops her opening all the cards repeatedly and asking who they are from and who they are to...
At least she recognises her card from me as hers.

We still buy ‘mum’ card for my DM and ‘mum and dad’ for PIL but we sign them from both of us.

Thanks for the responses everyone its interesting to read other people's opinions and ways of doing things! I've always bought personal ones such as mum, dad, grandma etc and signed from me and DH.
This year I've bought separate ones from DS (first Christmas) for his closest relatives.

I’ve never bought those kind of cards. But my in laws send them and that’s what my DH sends them in return. I think they would be offended if they didn’t get them anymore! I think if you have always sent those cards to your parents then you should continue to do so l.

I've never bought a card addressed to a specific relative, apart from for Mother's Day etc.

For Christmas, all relatives get whatever surrealist masterpiece DS has drawn for the PTA fundraiser cards, as discussed on another recent thread. (I've namechanged since then but I was the poster who was going to be sending out the card with the exploding elf and the neckless reindeer farting a rainbow. Or possibly pooing a rainbow -- I must ask DS...)

@Kippure

I've never bought a card addressed to a specific relative, apart from for Mother's Day etc.

For Christmas, all relatives get whatever surrealist masterpiece DS has drawn for the PTA fundraiser cards, as discussed on another recent thread. (I've namechanged since then but I was the poster who was going to be sending out the card with the exploding elf and the neckless reindeer farting a rainbow. Or possibly pooing a rainbow -- I must ask DS...)

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