To think this is strange from my neighbour?

[Pekitothebunny]

This morning I woke up to a pack of Christmas cards that have been posted through my door. They are new Christmas cards, still sealed within their pack, unused. A note came with it saying “hi, it’s Janet from number 5. I bought these for you to send out to the neighbours next year”

Huh? Why would anyone do that? She’s isn’t my direct neighbour, she’s like 4 houses down. We don’t speak or have any kind of relationship. However, since we moved in a few years ago she has always sent us a Christmas card, and I assume she sends them to everyone on the street. We don’t bother with Christmas cards and never send them out. Could it be that she’s offended that we never send cards so this is her not so subtle way of hinting that she will be expecting a card from us in 2025?? Why would anyone care so much?

Im planning on just throwing the cards away and ignoring it. Would anyone else find this weird?

So shes one of those people who only sends cards so that she will receive one back and she can display them all and feel popular.
She’s as shallow as she is unchristian.
Stick then in your charity bag.

Agree. Also what if you didn’t celebrate Christmas?

The point is that if the people who send you cards are the type that anticipate or even expect one back, publicising that you are not sending cards to anyone because XYZ immediately eliminates that assumption on their side and gives them the choice of whether they want to send one with the knowledge they will not receive one.

Post them back with a note saying “thanks, but I don’t send cards. I would rather the not add to the environmental impact of a tradition. Feel feee to wish me seasons greetings if you see me in the street and you too can reduce your environmental impact by one card.”

if you do a charity donation instead of cards as some people do, stick that at the end of the note!

all my family and friends know if would cost me about £30 in cards and stamps to send all of the Christmas cards, so instead I donate that money to a local hospice. Everyone wins then. I think cards are going out of style anyway. We received 6 this year…. 20 years ago we would have got about 50!

The point is if you donate to charity you don't have to broadcast it....even to the batty old woman down the road.

I would keep them just for her and send her one each Christmas until they run out.

Maybe she thinks you can't afford to buy cards, or don't celebrate Christmas due to religion. I'd pop them back through her letterbox with a note saying thank you but i dont send Christmas cards so you may make better use of them yourself.

Nosy fucking neighbour, if she doesn't like the fact you don't send her Christmas cards, she should stop sending them to you.....

Passive aggressive bitch

I would be furious! And take them straight back to her and tell her she’s a fucking dick!

Perhaps drop a note through her letterbox saying something like:
"Thank you.That was sweet of you to pop a packet of Christmas cards through my door. Actually, we don't ever send anyone any Christmas cards. Never have.
We usually make a donation to a charity instead. But, thank you for your kind thought. I will be donating your pack of cards to a charity next year, so they won't go to waste."

I suppose that it's possible that she's a bit lonely if she's elderly and has no immediate family alive?

Post them back through her door with a note saying...thanks but not needed as we don't celebrate. I'd be tempted to add " wow you got them for such a good deal I'm New years sales! Well done!"

I'd return them not donate or throw. Just pop them back through her letter box and no note

I’d send them back to her with a note:
”Hi x,
Thank you for thinking of me. I don’t send out cards for environmental reasons so I wont use them. All the best”.

Return them, and tell her you care about the environment so have stopped sending them.

Write them all to her but mark them with different years

Wowsers. That’s so passive aggressive and weird. After reading all you replies and her behaviour about not taking parcels for neighbours i would totally out shame her. Post them back through saying you don’t do Christmas cards and not everyone celebrates Christmas (you’re not lying that you don’t celebrate Christmas but might make her realise she’s being a dick). She sounds a strange bugger. Aren’t some people odd. I wouldn’t even notice if I didn’t recieve a card from a neighbour 🤣. Don’t press her ring doorbell though op. Either knock on the door and tip her over the edge or just post them 🤣🤣🤣

Infact. Ignore me. This is much better. Send her them all back just like this. Brilliant 🤣🤣

I'd be very passive aggressive and send every single 1 of them to her.

Do you have a street WhatsApp group? If so, post there that you have some spare Xmas cards that are free if anyone wants them 😀

Seriously, why would you do that? She's eccentric but perhaps she was trying to be nice or thoughtful. Perhaps she has MH issues, or intellectual disability, or is just desperately lonely.

Why immediately jump to a cruel and spiteful response? It's not as though she pushed poison or dog shit through the door.

Why don’t you keep them and send them to the neighbours at Christmas. You could sign off the cards with “from Janet” since they are literally from Janet.

Absolutely. Janet is a CF and probably a nosey neighbour to boot.

Oh wow! Write her a card for each year until you’ve ran out and put ‘Do not open until December 20__’ on the envelopes and then post them all at once.

Blackmail much?