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?

Well of course the only names appearing on an Xmas, Birthday or any other type of card, for that matter, should only be of the people living in the house it was sent from!

How very odd that you think otherwise...

I send cards with my kids (20&22) in them - my son doesn’t live with me and a number of recipients don’t know my kids at all. But it is my family wishing someone else’s family a happy Christmas so everyone is included. Though if my kids were married and had their own families I wouldn’t do it as I’d expect they’d be sending their own cards.

When our dses were kids, I put their names on our Christmas cards, but now they are adults, and two have their own homes (ds3 is looking to buy his first flat), I don’t. Frankly it is enough work signing them from dh and me, without adding three sons, two DILs and three grandchildren.

It’s not the house that sends the card, it’s the family…
Nobody is excommunicated from a family when they move out of the family home.
You’re the odd bod for thinking otherwise.

Agree with this. Why on earth shouldn’t a card communicate greetings from the larger family group?

I don’t think people are excommunicated from a family when they move out, @KilkennyCats - but I do think they start their own households, and will start sending their own cards.

When I moved out of home, I expected to take on the responsibility for sending Christmas cards etc myself - I never assumed my parents would carry on doing it for me.

But it is personal preference, and I know my way, my opinion isn’t the only one - I just know I am too knackered to add all the family names when I am writing my cards. I don’t bat an eyelid if someone does put all the family names in their cards.

But a Christmas card isn't from a house to a house. It's from a family to a family.

I used to be irritated getting cards at work from colleagues who put all their family's names on cards when I'd never met anyone except the colleague. I never did it myself.

However I think some people write a standard thing in every card, many of which will be for family who do know them all, and put the addressee afterwards.

I would just put Mr & Mrs So-and-so & family (or 'Bill, Ted & family', on the envelope and, in the card, no 'To", just 'from.....your names.

They probably write that to everyone and it's now on autopilot. So long as they didn't say 'To Whatsit and Thingy in the house with the green door, happy Christmas from Susie, John, Lisa, Sarah, George, Rover, Tibbles and Goldie'.

I’d put it in the bin. Pointless random names

What a mean post

Can a post be any more trivial?

Just be grateful someone thought to send you a card!!

what a strange, and somewhat miserly and judgemental , thing to concern yourself about. I dont know why people put their pets on Christmas and birthday cards, but if it makes them happy, so be it. At least they are thinking of me.

Yes you are being ridiculous. It's nice to know the names of your neighbour's family. Why do you even care?

I imagine they have been signing all their cards like that for years and it is just a habit. Does it matter?

I know !
May they never have more to trouble them 😂

Surely you're massively overthinking this?
It's just a card, it's going to end up in the recycling, it really doesn't matter.

Light-hearted: I will be aligning the "from" list on any Christmas cards I send with the records on the electoral roll in future after this thread. 😂

I know what you’re saying, but people tend not to send cards to their former neighbours when they move out of the family home, so being remembered in the family card in this particular instance is perfectly fine, IMO.

I’m with you on this. It’s exhausting reading all the names and who are all these people? Yes I’m Scrooge, whatevs, but I appreciate receiving the cards and I do also send them myself to be neighbourly but I keep it short and sweet. Lots of hackles raised on here as per usual! Probably because they do the same thing, writing down the entire family 😂

Yes, shut it down why don’t we?

Oh, stop your nonsense!
Exhausting reading two more names than you feel you should have to? 😂
Maybe work on your reading skills before next Christmas, to make this onerous task a little easier for you.

I always sign my Xmas cards as being from

• my name * and Uncle Tom Cobley & all!!

Blimey what a time to be alive . Talk about first world problems