To think it’s not normal to send an Easter card?

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Every year we get one from MIL but I have never sent one back. Prior to meeting DH I didn’t realise Easter cards even existed. MIL is very religious. She is not at all close to DH and rarely contacts us/ shows very little interest in us throughout the rest of the year, so I find it a bit hypocritical. So are Easter cards a thing?

They are a thing but far from necessary.

My godmother always send me one (religious nod) and I send to Grandparents from my little boy but that's it.

Yes they are for some.
The kids make them every year when young, usually stops by the end or primary school though.

For some people they are yes. I don't send Easter cards but I know people who do.

Easter is the most important celebration in the Christian calendar so I can understand people sending them widely if they are devout Christians.

Well you’ve got one, so they’re obviously a thing. I don’t send them but my mum always sends one to the grandkids and they make them for their friends

This is news for me, I thought it was and Americanism and another way for shops to make money. Have they always been a thing?

We always receive one from FIL, we've never sent any. Never thought much of it other than it's always nice to receive any card!

For cultural/religious reasons. We went to stay with MiL when I was newly engaged to dh, at Easter. She had Easter cards and presents (not eggs/chocolate) for us. It hadn’t occurred to dh that we should bring anything even though that’s what his family do every year.

I nearly got into sending her an Easter card every year but thankfully I remembered in time that men can buy cards too, and let it be dh’s job. So she didn’t get Easter cards.

We have received Easter cards from the 80’s (I was born then so perhaps earlier).

I have always sent and received Easter cards. Not as many as Christmas cards. But a few. I am in my 50s. It’s not new.

Somewhere I have some Easter cards sent to me by my grandparents when I was tiny. They were lovely. Really beautiful pictures.

We used to do them within the family when I lived at home but since I moved out I've stopped, and the family seem to have stopped too.

They're just not needed - particularly when I have no Christian beliefs whatsoever!

DH family are very religious, we get a card for his elderly relatives as it is an important celebration for them.
I also get one for my mum as Easter was a big occasion for her growing up.

Definitely not a widespread norm though I would say.

I'd say it's not not a thing. Meaning, it's not as much of a thing as Christmas cards. But not exactly uncommon or weird to send one.

I used to send them to a couple of elderly relatives, who’ve now died, as a way of keeping in touch and marking the season. Don’t think they’re much of a thing generally.

One friend of mine always sends Easter cards. She doesn’t expect to get one back but she just likes to send them because she comes from a religious family where Easter is a big deal.

DD used to make them to send to grandparents and a lovely neighbour who we know celebrates Easter as a religious festival.
She's 14 now, so doesn't make them but we still post a little card through neighbour's door.

Yeah it's a thing for some famileis

Common among my religious friends to give and receive Easter cards.

We used to get them when I was a child. And a new outfit for church.

We send them to nieces and nephews as they all get so excited to receive snail mail and it’s really just another excuse to post something showing we care. It’s also a lot healthier than a chocolate egg I guess.

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I used to send them to a couple of elderly relatives, who’ve now died, as a way of keeping in touch and marking the season. Don’t think they’re much of a thing generally.

I do this too. I send maybe 7 or 8; at Christmas I send out about 40 cards.

No chance are they normal. I've never had one and most certainly never sent one.

They're perfectly normal. I, and clearly you, don't send them.

Do you think it's some kind of pass ag religious reminder? It's really not, it's just a card with a bunny/eggs,
usually yellow and sometimes with a cross.

Inoffensive greeting of the season.

I get then from Christian friends, and I normally send my parents one (if I can find a card with a photo of a pissed off looking cat in a bunny costume).