To buy and write out birthday cards for friends and some family up to a year ahead?

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I’ve been feeling recently that I’d like to be better at celebrating friends’ birthdays. Since having children, I’ve been mostly rubbish at this, but now they’re older I’d like to make more effort. But I can also be stupidly busy at times and miss stuff - like I might be organised enough to buy a card well in advance, but then I’m too late to write and post it. So I was thinking I might buy and write cards all in one go, or 6 monthly or something, and then I only have to remember to post them on time (which somehow seems more manageable!) AIBU??

I have a dedicated birthday calendar (one of those long, thin ones) and do my cards once a month.

After a lifetime of being sh*t at remember birthdays and my cards arriving late, I have embraced Moonpig. Everyone I send birthday cards to appears on there, with a reminder the right number of days ahead.

At some point in the quiet time between Christmas and new year, I do the year's cards and use the 'send on' feature to schedule them all at the same time. I even have a handwritten message for everyone I send to

Takes about oh less than a full hour to set them all up. Still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat that I have forgotten someone otherwise it's all good.

Only downside I now notice if we don't get one back from some people but I make the effort to 'let it go' given how bad I was for ohh decades before I got this trick.

Occasionally DH also sends a card to his side. Soo they get two that year. No biggie 😁

After a lifetime of being sht at remember birthdays and my cards arriving late, I have embraced Moonpig. Everyone I send birthday cards to appears on there, with a reminder the right number of days ahead.*

It's a great system they have, but I always get irrationally and unreasonably annoyed that it also reminds me of my DS's birthday several days in advance - as we usually get him one from there. and spend time personalising it.

Very handy when it gives you the heads-up for Great Aunt Maud's birthday, but it does make you feel like a bad parent who needs an outside company to send an automated reminder to avoid forgetting your own child's special day.

Take a look at your reminders in Moonpig @OnTheRightSideOfGeography You can turn off the ones that are not useful and also adjust the number of days ahead that it reminds you.

Ah, thank you, @FinallyHere - I didn't know you could change them.

I think they offer you a small discount if you agree to a reminder, don't they? So I assumed that was effectively there for their marketing purposes rather than for your convenience; but I will look into that.

Am I remembering wrongly from last time, or is Moonpig one of those companies that tries to lure you in to a monthly subscription 'savings' scheme with dubious benefits?