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

141 replies

Alarmfiasco · 16/04/2022 11:45

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?

OP posts:
Spaghag · 16/04/2022 16:30

They aren't overly common these days but as a family we used to receive quite a few when I was growing up.

Ionlydomassiveones · 16/04/2022 16:30

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BritWifeInUSA · 16/04/2022 16:32

@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?
An Americanism? Why on earth would you think that? Easter us less if a thing here than in the UK. It’s not a bank holiday/public holiday. Friday and Monday are normal work days. Shops will be open this Sunday as usual. The children in my part of the country aren’t even off school. No Easter eggs. It’s pretty much a non-event here.
Stickytreacle · 16/04/2022 16:55

They were more of a thing years ago, we made Easter cards and decorated eggs at school and new clothes were often bought.
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Kite22 · 16/04/2022 17:17

You make it sound like your neighbour gets the deciding vote

or, like the poster was highlighting the fact it isn't just devout Christians who wish to send greetings to other folk at this time of year ?

MarineBlue33 · 17/04/2022 08:12

@Kite22

You make it sound like your neighbour gets the deciding vote

or, like the poster was highlighting the fact it isn't just devout Christians who wish to send greetings to other folk at this time of year ?

Yes that's right!

Happy Easter everyone!

Ooaapaulmcgrath · 17/04/2022 08:16

Where I'm from, in Ireland, they've always been very normal. Easter and St Patrick's Day warrant cards and always have done.

Ooaapaulmcgrath · 17/04/2022 08:19

Obviously Easter is important in Ireland as well because of the Easter Rising and remembering our heroes. Lots of remembrance services on today. I suppose every country has it's Easter traditions. Look at Semana Santa in Spain. Nothing to do with America.

Furrbabymama87 · 17/04/2022 08:21

We only ever get them from DH's grandma. I've never known anyone else to send them.

Furrbabymama87 · 17/04/2022 08:22

Actually I just remembered we got an Easter card through the door yesterday from someone who's just moved into the street.

entropynow · 17/04/2022 08:31

Why this tiresome obsession with things being "normal"? People can send cards for whatever reason they wish. Honestly the hostility to the faintest expression of faith around here is so tiresome, and I say that as someone who has left the church.

SquirrelG · 17/04/2022 08:38

Well, shops have been selling them for as long as I can remember, and I'm 62, so it must be normal for some people to send them!

Legoisthebest · 17/04/2022 09:13

Google Victorian Easter cards. There's some brilliant ones.

SunshineLollipopsAndRainbows · 17/04/2022 09:17

Definitely a thing - I sent them for years but haven’t for the last few, partly because of the astronomical cost of postage. We’ve received 3 this year. One from The Salvation Army in with a request to help them, one from a friend & one from my Aunty who’s religious.

CharityShopChic · 17/04/2022 09:19

Have never sent an Easter card, nor received one, apart from the hand made Primary School ones from the kids.

BatshitCrazyWoman · 17/04/2022 12:11

Tesco had a vast display of them - they are a thing, OP!

I'm nearly 60, and have received Easter cards from being a child. If you don't know any Christians, you may not have received one, but as a PP said, Easter is the most important festival in the Christian faith, and it's celebrated!

Original poster
Alarmfiasco · 17/04/2022 12:30

I stand corrected, thank you. Happy Easter everyone 🐣

OP posts:
KittenKins · 17/04/2022 22:30

I send them to my two neighbour's as I am bedbound & thus never see them. It feels like the only way I can say hello.

I started sending them when I lived in sheltered housing, as my neighbour's were all elderly. I feared they might be alone, & thought for the cost of a few cards at Easter & Xmas I might make someone feel less lonely.

So I kept it going. I do keep them on a rabbit/spring flowers theme though.

I rarely receive anything back, but it's not really a thing, so I don't mind

LBFseBrom · 18/04/2022 09:07

@BatshitCrazyWoman

Tesco had a vast display of them - they are a thing, OP!

I'm nearly 60, and have received Easter cards from being a child. If you don't know any Christians, you may not have received one, but as a PP said, Easter is the most important festival in the Christian faith, and it's celebrated!

Coincidentally, I had one from a neighbour which was from Tesco, a really pretty card.

Most people don't give or receive many but a few is quite normal. I love them! Any excuse for a card and it's nice choosing them.

NatashaDancing · 10/04/2023 01:35

ThreeKneeRepeater · 16/04/2022 12:56

IMO it’s not ‘normal’ to have never heard of Easter cards, OP. Hmm

I'm not certain I've heard of them. I've got to the age of 63 and never received nor sent one.

NatashaDancing · 10/04/2023 01:45

entropynow · 17/04/2022 08:31

Why this tiresome obsession with things being "normal"? People can send cards for whatever reason they wish. Honestly the hostility to the faintest expression of faith around here is so tiresome, and I say that as someone who has left the church.

There's no hostility on my part. I'm not a Christian although my mother was very religious. My mother didn't send Easter cards.

I wasn't aware that, beyond chocolate eggs for children, that Easter was a festival which was celebrated with cards and gifts. Christmas has morphed into a midwinter/ thanks for getting to the end of another year celebration which seems to me to have had the religious element almost entirely removed. I thought Easter was still a serious, religious celebration so I'm genuinely surprised that Easter cards exist.

I didn't notice them in supermarkets or card shops as they aren't something I even knew existed.

echt · 10/04/2023 01:47

Zombie thread but allow it due to topicality.

Easter cards were common in my RC childhood and as an adult I would send them to religious relations, always sacred in theme, because they sent me one.

That bit about new clothes: definitely a thing back in the day, 50s-70s, when new clothes weren't purchased as often as now. In fact there was a superstition attached to it: if you don't have new clothes to wear for Easter, the crows will shit on you.

NatashaDancing · 10/04/2023 01:57

In fact there was a superstition attached to it : if you don't have new clothes to wear for Easter, the crows will shit on you.

There are several weird threads around this morning so.I'm not sure if you're pulling my leg.

No idea why this thread resurrected itself - I wasn't looking for it.

caringcarer · 10/04/2023 01:58

My MiL who is not a bit religious sends us one and each adult DC gets one too. She uses any excuse to send a card. I don't send Easter Cards to anyone. I do get MiL a bunch of flowers though. She has a good heart.

Mumma · 10/04/2023 02:37

I remember making easter cards in school in the 90s. My nan always gave me one. We get DMIL a card because she treasures them. Dont send to anyone else. My DS received 2 cards - one from nan and one from auntie.

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