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I hate sending and receiving christmas cards

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tangent · 14/12/2007 16:19

Do I have to join in? Just got one through the door from a neighbour i don't even like. I'm not christian and quite frankly don't have time to write 100 cards. Bah humbug.

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pinetreedog · 14/12/2007 16:22

Don't do it. No one likes a grumpy pants at Christms

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tangent · 14/12/2007 16:25

Don't be grumpy? or don't send cards?

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MerryAnnSinglemas · 14/12/2007 16:27

you don't have to send them back, people might stop sending them if you don't.

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tangent · 14/12/2007 16:28

i didn't send any last year but it doesn't seem to stop them coming. i don't think people notice who's sent them and who hasn't. do people keep a list of who they got them from?

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MerryAnnSinglemas · 14/12/2007 16:30

I have to say that I get a bit pissed off by the ones just signed by the people - no dear... or to... etc...if they aren't personal don't bother,I reckon.

saythatagain · 14/12/2007 16:31

I stopped sendng Christmas cards out 3 years ago. People do still send them to us; it's their choice. Mine is not to bother but I'm certainly not bar-humbug about Christmas! Just not my cup of tea thanks - all that card!

pinetreedog · 14/12/2007 16:34

don't send cards. And then you won't be a grumpy pants at this jolly time of year

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tangent · 14/12/2007 16:35

i don't like having all those cards around. it's not that i'm a neat freak, far from it, but combined with all the usual clutter the cards just take my chaos to a whole new level.
last year i put up the home made ones only, the rest in a pile. MIL very interested in reading piles of cardsto see who sent one? is it a generation thing?

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crokky · 14/12/2007 16:36

I think I will use mine as Christmas decorations and let my DS play with them.

bananaknickers · 14/12/2007 16:41

I don't like them either.I have always thought they are like a popularity contest. I knew a woman who used to stick the year befores cards up to make it look like she had more mates .

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tangent · 14/12/2007 16:44

nooooooooooooooooooooo, she didn't!?!?!?!?

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EricScrooge · 14/12/2007 16:47

we have stopped this year.

last year was ridiculous with cards arriving very late up to Xmas.

Only family getting ones this year.

Our letterbox has been opened more than Ulrika Jonsons legs.

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tangent · 14/12/2007 16:51

Our letterbox is actually taped shut to stop it flapping in the wind...perhaps somebody could advise ulrika of this method.

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gizmo · 14/12/2007 16:53

Another card nay-sayer here, except with family.

a) because I like to focus on the fun, face-to-face contact aspect of christmas and
b) because I only have an email address for a large chunk of my friends.

I tried getting an address book this year for postal addresses but I'm still short of 30-50 names, so I have completely given up on the cards.

And to be honest I don't think anyone notices...

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tangent · 14/12/2007 16:56

I feel bad for the aunties in law etc who've made the effort, but they're my partners family, not mine. Does anyone else find that the blokes don't do cards so you're left with passifying their family?

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motherinferior · 14/12/2007 16:57

My partner sends cards. I don't.

Sometimes he sends cards to members of my family. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird.

mm22bys · 14/12/2007 16:59

I am glad I am not the only one! Close friends I will either see during the year, or there is always the phone or email.

I appreciate the effort people have gone to send me cards, but I think in this day and age it is unnecessary and environmentally unfriendly.

I got a card yesterday from a friend that was a picture of her son (her son's picture was even on the address label - is there a gag smiley?). What is that about?

Agree about people just signing their names, but what is worse is the computer-generated year's history!

I'm not really grumpy, really love Christmas, but don't see the point of cards, especially when we're supposed to be generating less land-fill!

EricScrooge · 14/12/2007 17:01

Yes!

Play the environmental card!

Nice one. Forgot about that.

Now i feel all smug and right-on.

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tangent · 14/12/2007 17:02

is there an alternative to christmas cards? i know my mates will be happy with an email or a facebook message. but what do you do with the oldies?

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bananaknickers · 14/12/2007 17:04

where we used to live, for ten years we got a card for the previous people.What was the point of auntie Efel sending them a card every year. She didn't even know if they were still alive. What a waste of a stamp

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tangent · 14/12/2007 17:06

actually the first one we got this year was for somebody who doesn't live here from somebody we don't know, it actually went on top of the telly for a week. made me smile. it's all so stupid.

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lazawreath · 14/12/2007 17:09

I have sent a couple of cards to friends that i havent spoken to for months. Gets me off the hook for not returning phone calls from september.

FluffyMummy123 · 14/12/2007 17:10

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unknownrebelbang · 14/12/2007 17:11

I send the bare minimum.

unknownrebelbang · 14/12/2007 17:13

Now we just need to lose the works emails that inform everyone that they're not sending cards, but making a donation to some charity or other.

We don't care.

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