Christmas card from neighbour..

[NewandBlue]

Ive received a card from our neighbours two door down and it states all,the family’s name. To NewandBlue and husband from Pam, Pete, then also has their two adult children names on with their partners and kids names?

As it’s only Pam and Pete that are our neighbours I can’t see the point in putting all the families names on the card. Am I unreasonable?

I think you don’t like these neighbours and are picking holes for the sake of it. Don’t give them a card if you don’t want to.

We don't send cards as we don't celebrate christmas - we're pagans, but always get 1 or 2 'obligatory' cards, certainly never think why have they mentioned their adult son [?] and dog card goes on the shelf for the duration then is recycled.

Mine have flown the nest and it's hard to go back to just being me and DH after all these years. It was actually MIL who said I was being ridiculous including my children and their partners in her card. So I've left them off every since.
She says they should be sending this own. I don't think many 20 something's send cards anymore do they?

Probably not odd enough to warrant a whole thread though eh?

AIBU certainly attracts some random non events.

What a thoughtless b1tch she is. How dare she.

YABU a bit, yes. It's just a nice gesture and they probably meant nothing besides it just being a nice thing to do. Let it go, it's not like you now have to make a thank-you smartshow 3d video for each of them personally, is it?

I think it's perfectly reasonable to convey it's from the whole family. I guess it's a tad odd if you've literally never met or spoken to the kids. But if you know them even in passing it's just showing it's from everyone. Pretty harmless?

Someone took the time and effort to reach out and write a card.....and that's your response?! Good grief.

Pam, Pete and family.

Thus including all their nearest and dearest even if they don't live there.

The end. Job done.

The waste of ink IMO is writing yours and your husbands name inside, they’ve given you the card and presumably addressed the envelope so it’s safe to assume the card inside is for you.
They were probably in card writing mode with the sign off, I wrote love from in all my cards this year, I like them all very much but I don’t love my neighbours, the kids coaches or the butcher 🤷‍♀️

They'll have done it on autopilot, it doesn't matter.

Last Christmas was my first Christmas in this house. I'd been here 3 months by then. Let's say my name is Jessica, I got a Christmas card from one neighbour addressed to Miriam. Needless to say, my name isn't Miriam. I could understand if the previous owner was named Miriam, but she was a Sue!

I got another card that was completely blank inside. We were able to work out from the postmark it was from a cousin, but it amused us.

In other words, don't take it too seriously.

We have a funny story in our family in this vein. My gran had an old friend from way back who lived at the other end of the country. Every year they exchanged cards; her friend would sign ‘love from Mary & Peter’ (or whatever they were called). One year, gran received a card which said ‘love from Mary’ so she wrote back to Mary, so sorry to hear about Peter. Turns out Peter was alive and well, Mary had just forgotten to write his name 😂

You actually wrote this out.

And I actually read it.

My god.

What did the police say?

In the time it took to start this thread you could have written all their names…

I think its quite common as often its just on autopilot as you've potentially written lots of cards in one sitting.
Made me LOL though as this is exactly the kind of over thinking I do! I have one neighbour whose husband and dog have a similar name and DH always forgets who is who when she's talking😂😂😂

I think the point is that you are still her children!

Maybe you should just be glad that she still loves you all, and is still proud enough of you all, to bother writing your mames out?

We send very few cards now. The list includes some families with grown up children, some are still living at home, others have moved out, For these we write for example, to Sally, Tom and family. Job done.

Really not worth fretting about.

That’s brilliant. My mum used to do the bulk of cards when she was alive and now my dad has taken over all our cards say “Spookyspaghetti Sr” instead of ‘dad’ and the ‘to’ section is just blank lol

One of our friends once gave DH a completely blank birthday card so for a few years they continued sending blank cards to each other!

Police. Now!

Also, find out who their landlord is and get them evicted for being such utter cunts.

Does it matter I cannot understand why this is such an issue to start a thread

This.I still sign DD's name ( and her DH and DGC's) on the neighbours' cards because they all remember her growing up here.She played with some of their kids and many neighbours were kind enough to give gifts when she got married and when she had her baby.They still see her around with her family when they visit us and wave or stop for a brief chat.

One of my neighbours adult kids is in Australia and the other lives 3 hours away BUT I always write the card to all of them. I have known them for 20 years so don't feel the need to change
In fact of all 5 neighbours I send cards to only 2 have DC still living at home but I write the cards to everyone

My thoughts exactly
Bizarre