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

[Alarmfiasco]

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?

We get on from my parents but thats it and have never sent one but me and DH are not religious and don't really celebrate Easter.

I have never received, or sent, an Easter card. But am well aware they are a thing.

I'm pretty much as atheist as they come however, so wouldn't sent one back, even if I did get sent one.

As children when we outgrew Easter eggs we would get an Easter card and some money. At that time Easter eggs really were only aimed at children. I sent cards for a few years as an adult but moved abroad (from the UK) and they aren't readily available in any country we have lived in since.

My great aunt was very religious and always sent Easter cards and I used to send her one too even though I'm not religious. Never sent or received them to/from anyone else though.

@Alarmfiasco

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?

They have been around for at least 30 years. I remember selling them for my Saturday job. But they aren't common.

PIL’s always send them to us, their faith is important to them and Easter is a significant event. I forget every year to return the favour, but I think they are probably used to it by now. They are lovely people and I find it touching.

Mil was the only one I knew who sent Easter cards - about 30 of them. She came from high church, so I could understand that.
No one I ever knew sent them, until covid struck - I suddenly started to receive them. (mil deceased by then). I don’t send them out and hope that after we move they will stop. I find them a bit creepy tbh.

Always sent and received them - mostly within immediate family but some from
Church friends over the years

This is since the 70s

Does it actually matter?

Perfectly normal.. I haven't sent as many this year because of postage costs. I shall cut back at Christmas too, I expect.

Yes I send them to my parents and older relatives and we've been doing that for years. Plus have you not seen the displays in all the supermarkets? Do you shop with your eyes closed?

I've always had one from my grandmother, and my parents by association. Not from a religious family and the cards are generally just springy (daffodils, flowers, chicks) than any kind of religious imagery. Sometimes I remember to reciprocate and sometimes I don't. It makes me smile to get them though.

Did you never make Easter cards as a child in primary school?

I did, (my mum still has them all too) my dd did and my 4 year old niece does.

My mum gives all the grandchildren an Easter card too and she's not religious at all.

I don't buy or send them but I wouldn't call it an odd or rare thing to do. It's a bit like Xmas cards too me, becoming less and less common but kids still make them in school and some people still like this end them.

Does it actually matter?

You could say that on a lot of threads on mumsnet.

They’re not common among my family and friends OP but we’re not Christian.

I send them to some previous neighbours of ours who are religious. Not in anyway an Americanism, we used to send and receive a few when I was younger. Anyone in the Christan faith (and especially devout Catholics) celebrate Easter. It is the cornerstone of their belief, that Christ died was was resurrected.

We used to about 50 years ago, it usually a thing that older relatives do nowadays , I wouldn't have thought it was an Americanism

Ha someone I know was on about an easter gift for their already spoilt kid.

No definitely not hoping for a religious bashing thread and completely over the MIL’s lack of interest in our lives. Just never got one from anyone else and not really noticed them in shops either.

As children when we outgrew Easter eggs

?
who outgrows easter eggs?

@AchillesPoirot

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.

oh yes - I'm a child of the 50's, new dress and an easter bonnet.

Easter cards have always been sent and received by my family and friends who have a strong christian faith - Easter is far more important for them than christmas.

They had some in M&S, relatives generally send them, my Aunt occasionally sends me one still, I have never sent her one though.

Just never got one from anyone else and not really noticed them in shops either.

There’s nowhere near the amount of Easter cards for sale in shops compared to Xmas, Valentines Day, Mother’s Day, at least not here anyway, you could easily not notice them. Lots of Easter decorating stuff like ribbons and chicks.

@Alarmfiasco. They never been huge displays in shops. When I worked at WH Smith, we maybe had a maximum of 6 cards, in a display of 6 - 10meters long. This year I’ve only seen a free standing display of a dozen in Marks and Sparks. Yanbu.

I find it odd that you haven't heard of this OP but I guess it's your social circle. We get them from in laws and will give them when we go over for Easter Sunday lunch.

So just because you've never sent or received one then there's no chance its normal?

I've never sent or received a Ramadan card either but doesn't mean there's no chance it's normal to do so.