To cull people on my Christmas card list?

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Have been sending cards to come people for about four years now and never got one back, for all I know they've moved or just don't like us.

I moved abroad four years ago so these are people I don't see, mainly old 'friends' from ds's old school.

I think it's time to drop them but DH says I am being a cow and my our card may brighten their lives. [hmmm]

I don't mind if I don't get one back if I know they got them.

Where will it end? Shall I turn into old lady who gets the cards down in January, ticks off the list and gets out the big pencil to start crossing off?

Drop them, save your stamp money. I have to say getting a christmas card has never brightened my day or my life.
If dh is serious, get him to write & post them

Are you sure these people still have your address? Maybe they lost your new address when you moved, and haven't been able to send a card back. Why not send one this year, making sure you put your address in the card, then if you don't receive one back, strike them off the list for next year. I think 5 years of one-sided correspondence is enough, if you are sure they have your address.

god i loathe sending christmas cards

i send them to friends and family who i see day in day out, what is the point in that.

i send them to old friends who i really dont care to much about anymore and will possibly never see agin, whats the point of that.

i really love christmas and everything that goes with it, except the cards!!!!

there is always one person you think "will i, wont 1" about then when you are decided not to bother and just ran out of cards they go and post one through your bloody door

Cross 'em off!
Agree that if your dh is so keen, tell him he can do it!
If we don't get a card 2 years running then I don't send one the next year.

I culled mine last year and it was very therapeutic.

Ah - on reflection, maybe SoMuchToBits is being a little more charitable than me

Last year I sent one to a relative who was dead. We all have them, the wrinklies that we see once every 10 years & they get the worst, left over cards when all our cool ones have gone.

I even culled people I did still get a card from but really had nothing in common with nor wished to meet up with again.

I'm thinking of putting a note in all mine this year, saying that rather than buying my charity xmas cards next year, I'm going to just make a donation to that charity instead. I always end up with 3 or 4 on xmas eve that I haven't got round to giving to people too. I am officially turning into a grumpy old woman, but really I don't see the point of them!

it would be entirely unreasonable and in fact illegal to cull anybody I'm afraid.

They def have our address, I always put that on ...

Dh doing Christmas cards? Good idea. But first I have to get him to write his mother's birthday card AND Mother's day card.

and kerrykatona: why not simply stop sending them to people you see day in day out? I never give cards to people I see: I say happy xmas to them instead.

because they expect it, think i will put my foot down this year

I feel like culling them SP because it is bloody expensive sending them airmail.

it was a joke, ccc. if you look up "cull" in a dictionary you'll see it.

I thought she did get it and was saying that, she really would like to cull them...?

senorapostrophe.

We don't do Christmas cards at all. Like receiving postcards (another thing we don't do), is anyone really thrilled to receive one? I think that if a relationship consists only of exchanging Christmas cards once a year then it isn't really a relationship anymore.

Hate christmas cards- they always make the house such a mess. At my work we write one card to the staff as a whole and then make a donation to a charity with what we would have spent on cards.

The other thing I hate are those smug bulletins people put in with their cards catalogueing their families achievements for the year.

Yes, what is wrong with hitting them over the head when you've bought airmail stamps in November?