Christmas cards with kids on

[CushionsandCandles]

Please stop it.
I don't want photos of other people's kids gracing my mantelpiece.
I wouldn't subject you to it and my kids are clearly gorgeous (or rather I'm not deluded enough not to realise I'm the only person who thinks they are).
But special mentions to the toe cringing photos of kids dressed as Christmas puddings, elves, fairies and the like!
Bah Bumbug

I’m not bothered by cards with pics of friends children on, but Round Robin letters from smug parents give me the rage. “Cressida got a double distinction in her Grade 1 Tibetan Nose Flute exam, whilst Ptolemy dug toilet pits for the indigenous people of Mars. Such a humanitarian at the age of 4 3/4!”

I love seeing these! I would never send one but think they are cute... love to see my friends and family happy!

I suggest you take a look at the thread about recycling Christmas cards immediately

Apologises if this has been said already...

"A terrible American tradition"

Someone should tell the royal family that.

Christmas cards I don’t mind at all, it’s personal and interesting IMO.
Now picture baubles, those can piss right off. I don’t want plastic crap containing someone else’s child hanging on my tree. I don’t have any of my own kids fgs! And especially when the picture is awful. One year we received a full set of ‘professional’ photos that I think a relative had been forced into buying thanks to one of those companies that used to hang out in shopping centres. There wasn’t a decent shot in there, the child looked utterly gormless in every one. I hoped they hadn’t paid a lot for them and then binned.

Cute newborn babies fair enough.

Primary age kids with half their teeth missing, no those cards go in the bin! They don’t look very nice on the wall.

You don't want certain cards because they don't look nice on your wall?! They're not decorations fgs; they're little messages and well wishes from one friend, relative or contact to another.

I don't mind what is on the front of the cards I receive because I like the people who sent them to me and appreciate the the fact that they've thought of me. I also don't think I can dictate to others what cards they choose to send to me, whether they're the generic robin in a snowy tree type or a more personal family photo type.

I like them actually. Always nice to see photos of friends and family. And festive trimming is nice too.

I'd love a card like this x

YANBU! It's very irritating.

You don't want certain cards because they don't look nice on your wall?! They're not decorations fgs; they're little messages and well wishes from one friend, relative or contact to another.

This. I can't believe how ungrateful and "princessy" some posters on MN are. I've never met anyone like this in real life. Some of you don't deserve to have friends/family if this is the way you talk about the things they choose to do.

I like getting cards like this!

Burn them. (The cards, not the children.)

I don't mind them, though find it a bit odd when they are from random work colleague I'm on nodding terms with, rather than bff of 35 years.
However! I cannot bin photos of someone's beloved babies. So what the hell does one do with the photos? I barely know the children, but putting their little heads through the shredder seems awful, but I don't want little faces knocking about in landfill...

Now I'm going to send you individual cards off all three kids each dressed as a different festive item. Mwhaahahhhah

@HikeForward

Cute newborn babies fair enough.

Primary age kids with half their teeth missing, no those cards go in the bin! They don’t look very nice on the wall.

So pray what kind of cars is acceptable?

Cartoon Santa's? Cheeky glittery reindeers? Or only snowy landscapes o5n muted colours??

It would not bother me at all.
It's the picture of the whole family on the wall when you go in their house that I find cringey. Children yes, but mum and dad ? Oh dear and all in their Sunday best with mum made up and hair done looking like someone else.
Dreadfully good !

They are bloody awful. That and thank you cards. My mum got a birthday card this year from a family she knows with not just the children on it, but a collage of pictures of the whole family .

Meh I'm usually just extremely impressed at the organisation of the family. My DC were both born in November and the extent of my card sending thought process near Christmas for several years was basically " Oh bugger , Christmas cards must dash around town because the last post date is tommorrow ....Oh dear God ds1 / ds2 please sleep for more than 10 minutes I just hallucinated monkeys again "

Any parent with a baby that has the time , thought and ability to keep it from throwing up or screaming to get a Christmas card photo done deserves my respect not my censure .

I LOVE family photo cards. Much better than "jesus is the reason for the season" bullshit

That seems rather grinch-like. Those aren't my favorite cards, I like ines with lovely pictures, but I am very happy to have people thinking of me no matter what I send.

Though my favourite is a lady at church who always makes me a card and puts quite a bit of effort into it, too.

Whereas endless cards with nativity scenes snowmen, Santa, robins and Xmas trees are just so much better. I’m not a fan of any cards but I’d much prefer a personal one that some generic shite from a card shop or Tesco.

Some absolute charmers on this thread. Merry fucking Christmas eh?

I quite like receiving them. Would never send one, I’m not the royal family.

One year a friend sent an entire calendar of photos of her baby and I think that was a bit OTT. I suspect she thinks that too with the passage of time, she’s not usually a knob.

I sent the neighbour's cat a Christmas card from my cat wearing a [Paint added] Santa hat, they loved it.

I sent the neighbour's cat a Christmas card from my cat wearing a [Paint added] Santa hat, they loved it.

🤣 I’d love that.