to not send any Xmas cards out this year - again.

[Chardonnay1966]

..I had an experiment last year and didn't send any because I just could not be arsed. And NO-ONE noticed, I swear. I even said to people "did you get our card?" And they all said yes, thanks etc. The way I see it, I'm saving the rain forest...

we use it as an occassion to send out pictures, and wish those a meery christmas to those relitives far away.

kids make them, but they get cheapo ones for their friends at school! lol!

just dont send any cards to the people who never sent you a card back last year, thats what I do. I dont want to be a tightfisted scrooge like the ones who dont bother sending me back a card so they get crossed off next years xmas card list! Ive one peson who gives me a card if she bumps in to me in December. Im pretty sure she keeps cards for years until she bumps in to the person. Shes too tight to buy stamps so she wont be getting a card from me this year as I have been sending one to her house for years. We need to keep our Christmas spirit and sending cards is part of it but if someone doesnt bother sending you cards back then delete them!

I NEVER SEND THEAM

Wheres your chrsitmas spirit cod?!!

well my Christmas spirit tends to be Bacardi and coke... and I can afford a lot more glasses when I don't spend my hard earned dosh on cards. Cheers!

we dont send them to people we see all the time, we make a dontation to the NSPCC, we only send them to the oldies and far away people!!!

I'm not sending cards except to a very few - to a couple of elderly relatives who would appreciate them. Everyone else is getting a Christmas email. See - keeping in touch and saving the planet

I sent them only to my elderly housebound Northern aunties who really enjoy them.

See, this is why I love mumsnet.

All these years this has been the onlyt thing I hate about Christmas - feeling inadequate because the cards I have written (half arsedly) I have forgotten to give out. Plus never have displayed the ones people send me.

Now, instead of feeling inadequate my anti card feeling has been endorsed by mumsnet.

Hurray

Bravo KittyLouise!

Hey and you know what, I'm not even gonna send a Christmas email either cos I can't even be arsed to do that!

I send them to people i rarely see as a way of keeping in touch but think it is silly to give them to people you see in person, you can say merry christmas to them, you don't need to hand over a piece of paper to say it. it's a different thing to get one through the post (though even then i'm pretty about sending them)

DH thinks I am weird, like he would buy me a special xmas card, but I wouldn't think of getting him one - i see him everyday! annoying he also thinks it's 'nice' for me to write them for him

now I think of it i never think "oh xxx hasn't sent me a card this year" Maybe I will join the no card revolution!

There's just one downside that has occurred to me with the 'can't be arsed to write cards' brigade (and I'm one of them) - will you mind if your own mantlepiece starts looking a bit bare in a couple of years' time?

I've just bought a load of stamps!

I am making a slide show of the year, to send out with the Xmas email - it can be ignored by anyone who finds it naff/boring . Have already put hours of work into it, finding photos, the right music for the themes of the year, news stories etc, and have hours more to go, but hopefully it will be fab when finished. I dont like giving or recieving cards, but I do love it when people make an effort in some way or other.

We send a few but it's nearly always rather last-minute. What I tend to do is send back to those we receive from mostly and not very many more, it's kind of a middle way and avoids offending hopefully!
One of my best friends says she has 400 people on her Christmas card list, which I just think is a bit crazy.
It doesn't bother me too much if someone does not send me a card, it's less for us to send the way I look at it!

YANBU, but Rosyred and I are alone on this one. I always send them and love getting them back. Think it is a lovely sentiment. But then I love everything to do with Christmas. Have been brainwashed.

YNBU!

I never send cards out - I don't want to receive them either, but people just keep on sending them

Hubby does the few obligatory work ones & I write letters (not dreaded Christmas letters though) to the handful of people I rarely see but want to keep in touch with. Hate cards though, don't send them! It's liberating.

I am sending out the cards that I wrote out last year and never sent. Obviously have to change a couple because SIL has a new boyfriend and someone else has split up. I love Christmas and make maximum effort for the kids and with presents etc but for some reason actually getting off my arse and sending out cards is beyond me.

It irritates DH no end so I told him to send out his own and he said he couldnt believe I was serious in expecting a man to send out Christmas cards as it is a womans job. He was not joking.

YANBU - christmas cards are a money making croc of poo. Although should anyone wish to send me one with 'cash' in it thats totally fine .

Going against the grain here.

I'm definitely not uber-organised but I LOVE sending and receiving Christmas cards.

at anyone NOT wanting to receive them.

Maybe it takes on increased significance when you live abroad but it's really good to hear from all my extended family and friends and read the scribbled notes about what they are up to and see how everyone's children have grown etc over the year (I've 17 first cousins on one side of the family, 10 on the other!!). It's good to know that someone has thought about us and made that effort frankly.

Most nowadays are in aid of various charities so that's a good thing too.

Hospital donation good idea though.

[dons reindeer antlers and skips off to sing carols around chestnut roaster ....]

I didn't send any out last yr,no one commented either.

Today we received cards addressed to my ds ,dd,dhand I ,all separate cards to grandson,granddaughter etc ,all posted separately .All this from someone we'll farkin see on xmas day.
Bloody madness!!!!

Ah, this thread is brightening my day. Since having the dds, I never send any either. Nobody ever says anything. (I do, however, send calendars of the dds to close family members).

When we were "courting" (as my dad says, my dh gave me a beautiful boxed Xmas card in 1988 and I gave him one (a boxed card that is!) a year or two later.

I can't remember if we bought any more for each other (they could be archived somewhere) but we get the boxed ones out of the loft every Christmas and display them on the bookcase - our kids think it's great but when I told my family, they just thought we were really "tight".

My mum spends a fortune each christmas on personal cards for family and I've told her not to send my any more and I'll just display the lovely one she bought me last year - but she won't have it - why??

I have threatened to just send emails to everyone but somehow I just don't seem to be able to do it. However, I do send charity cards so perhaps it helps them a bit.

And, yes, I agree it's bonkers for kids to send to all their classmates but it's really difficult for them to be the first to buck the trend.

Ah well - best get that pen out!

Lazy Woman

i've only gone a bloody succumbed.
arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

How else can I show off to the world how fabulously talented my little darlings are though? I get them to draw a picture and print them out on pre-cut cards. A fantastic way of showing off their artistic genius.

I don't know why I send them to be honest. Just because I thought you HAD to when you were a grown up. Maybe I'll rebel next year and only send one to the old rellies.