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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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To hate bloody Christmas cards?

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HandbagsnGladrags · 04/12/2022 13:41

I'm not a Christmas Grinch - I like Christmas. But AIBU to think that Christmas cards are a total waste of time and money? I fucking hate them. I wish no one would send them to me. They end up cluttering up the windowsills and making the house look untidy. I don't send any except to my bloody mother who makes a right fuss if I don't send her one. She also comments on my lack of card sending to others. Fuck off.

Is anyone with me?

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FettleOfKish · 04/12/2022 19:15

I send a dozen or so, to friends and family we don't live near and won't see over Christmas. I don't think a text has quite the same 'we're thinking about you' impact as a handwritten card. I don't care if go straight in the bin, or don't get returned, the thought and sentiment was still there.

bluefrog11 · 04/12/2022 19:16

Yes agree. I hate them. What a bloody waste of time & money.

UsingChangeofName · 04/12/2022 19:28

Well, You ANBU to hate them (though it seems a LOT of anger over something so innocuous) but personally, I really like getting cards for people and I also enjoy making the time to sit and write to people I keep meaning to, but often don't get round to writing to during other times of the year. It's nice to keep in touch with people you have a long history with that perhaps it is difficult to see in person any more.

DillDanding · 04/12/2022 19:35

We’ve been spending the new year break with the same group of friends for over 20 years. When our kids were small and round robins were more of a ‘thing’, we’d have a little competition between the adults for once the kids were in bed. We’d all take our favourite and read it out to the group. By favourite, I mean the most boastful ‘the new year started, as always in our Kloisters chalet, Rupert passed his cello grade 8 with distinction…’

KrystynaZ · 05/12/2022 01:13

MissyB1 · 04/12/2022 18:34

I love them but I’m probably a lot older than OP. I’ve just finished writing mine, they all need to be posted as I only send them to people who don’t live in our area. I’ve got 8 to send to friends abroad, and 8 for UK. Me and my siblings place particular value on cards following the deaths of our parents.

Last year was our first Christmas without my mum... she received at least 20 cards from far-away friends and extended family that didn't know she'd died. My parents used to wonder, if a few years went by without receiving a card from Person X whether they had died, and usually they found that was the case.

SleepingStandingUp · 05/12/2022 01:20

XmasElfontheShelf · 04/12/2022 14:27

God, what a bloody Scrooge you are, eh? Straight in the recycling bin. I hope your friends cotton on.

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Tbf, so does @DillDanding

Snugglemonkey · 05/12/2022 02:08

I had given them up until DC started coming home from school with the option to buy cards they designed. So now I have to buy those. I do 2 displays of cards, one just a ribbon across the mantlepiece and another's wee peg board thing. I staple those on. They are not cards I change. They are my favourites from over the years. Like the last card my mum wrote etc. Do most cards I receive go straight to dc's school for crafting and recycling.

Lincslady53 · 05/12/2022 05:30

We have been sending cards all our lives, and we are getting on. We have one couple we met on holiday in 1976 that our card exchange is now the only communication we have. Still like to receive it, and if we ever end up near them we will call in. We had neighbours 40 years ago who moved in the opposite direction to us. We now live on the West coast, they are in Norfolk. Still exchange cards with a couple of lines of news, and again, maybe one day we will meet up. The cards I don't like, are not the ones with one line in, it is the one or two we get with a printed page if how fabulous their family is, never have any problems, etc etc. Hand written ok, generic printed boast sheet? No thanks. We also have a cousin who is a printer and he sends a printed Christmas card, in a printed envelope with no hand writing at all. He has just pressed a button, done a mail merge and got one of his staff to stuff the envelopes and stick a stamp on. We keep some cards of close friends, but my favourite, from a few years back was from Tom Finney who we had done a little bit of work for. What a nice man he was.

BigglyBee · 05/12/2022 10:49

toomuchlaundry · 04/12/2022 17:06

@BigglyBee do you celebrate Christmas? Do your DC not mind not having a Christmas tree?

We do celebrate, yes. We are religious(RC), so for us the whole of Advent as well as Christmas Day is a big deal. We just have our own ideas about how we celebrate, which are based on what we like and what is practical for us .

The kids have never expressed an opinion about the tree. We stopped having one when we got cats. I considered having one outside, but it's too windy where we live and it would probably take flight!

LlynTegid · 05/12/2022 11:06

I suggest if you don't like them, contact those who send them to you, asking they make a donation to a chosen charity instead. And donate to the charity yourself.

I don't share your opinion but it is a valid one.

MissyB1 · 05/12/2022 12:56

Well I’m off to the post office this afternoon with a bundle to post. As my Bil said the other day, “there’s something about the plop of the letter box as cards fall on the floor”

chocolateasaltyballs22 · 05/12/2022 14:23

My first firelighter arrived today...

UsingChangeofName · 05/12/2022 14:32

MissyB1 · 05/12/2022 12:56

Well I’m off to the post office this afternoon with a bundle to post. As my Bil said the other day, “there’s something about the plop of the letter box as cards fall on the floor”

I'm with your BiL

TheLadyOfHay · 05/12/2022 17:38

I’ve spent most of today writing cards and will post them tomorrow. Sorry not sorry. If they are chucked away or used as fire lighters so be it

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