People who send chritsmas card of them and their kids witg generic short writed message

[Meowmeowgirl]

i remeber when holiday cards where more personalized to people u give them to but by a friend i just recieve a generic card with them and their toddler on focus with «merry chritsmas and happy new years to you and your closest!» and thats its. No personality to the card or where i save them up more than just putting them on the fridge til chritsmas is over and then bin. Im not saying people should write a whole bible on the card but cmon😂.

I solved this issue by saying ‘that was a great day, thanks, see you soon’ when we’ve ’created memories’ with people and stopped sending any Christmas cards 🙂🎄

Getting a comment deleted on a thread about Christmas cards is quite a feat! I missed it thankfully!

With the cost of postage, and the boredom of doing them, I wish we could all stop them. But people get very stroppy if that is suggested. 🙄😂

I bother because I like Christmas cards. To me they are Christmas. I like looking at them displayed and I like sending them. I might not write much in each one but I do think about the person as I'm writing them

The cheek of you 😂

Regardless of how much is written in the card, they are a token that someone is thinking of you and add to the Christmas decorations. Nothing like a row of Christmas cards on the mantelpiece over a roaring fire.

Oh dear - you've just described my cards! I figure the photo of me and the toddler is the nice thing - they're mostly for relatives I don't see very often so I think they'll likely be interested to see what the baby looks like now. But I don't bother with a personalised message in all honesty. I don't really get any with long messages either, but I'm pleased to receive them still. I'd be a bit sad if I got none at all - shows someone's thinking of you and nice to have up over the few weeks of Christmas. They'll be a thing of the past in another generation though I predict.

I just like getting a card tbh. Sure, it’s nice if the sender has personalised it a bit, but I imagine many people get “what the fuck do I write?” stage fright over stuff like this.

DH and I have a tradition of writing ours in the same pub on the same day every December. Our friends can generally tell where they were on the list by the soppiness of the message inside (and the quality of the handwriting) and whether theirs was written after drink one or drink three.

I'm thinking the OP isn't in the UK as she has referred to Christmas as 'the holidays'. Maybe different expectations culturally?

I think this may be a wind up post

"To neighbour, Merry Christmas! Remember when that fox shat on the pavement and we both stood in it? Love, Me"

"To neighbour, best wishes for Christmas and 2026 when, for the love of God, I am begging you to stop parking so close to my car that I can't open the driver's door. Have a great one!"

Lol you really don't, you have multiple spelling mistakes and you've spelt personalised the American way :P

I would just appreciate that I received a card and that someone thought of me. Plenty of people don’t even bother sending a card, much less making it personal.

We did this the year I had a bad accident.

to be honest that year people were lucky they got cards. It was a lovely photo though

So you're not satisfied that people have gone to the trouble of getting a photo taken, printed, and your correct address on the envelope?

Nobody I know under the age of 45 sends a traditional card any more. It's all photos of them and their family, pets, and whatnot. I like to see the photos, especially when they add a new baby or pet to the family.

If she's American, she's completely out of touch with the done thing in the US.

Sounds odd to me. Never heard or seen anyone doing that.

Why does it need to be brought up in advance? Genuine question! You don’t need permission. I don’t send any, haven’t for about 15 years now. No one seems upset.
Don’t receive hardly any anymore as people know we don’t send them or they’ve just realised they are generic and a waste of time and resources.

Now I do think if you’re going to bother with the effort of sending a card in the post then at least give some info rather than the most bland ‘best wishes’ or similar insincere rubbish - at least a round robin is a bit more detailed than ‘Merry Christmas from the family’.
I literally can’t wrap my head people spending a quid to post a card that says to x from x - just why bother?

Absolutely agree, and it’s why I don’t bother!

I send over 50 cards every Christmas, some have detailed messages especially to relatives overseas, but many are short. To me, the fact that I sent a card means I’m thinking about you, and I hope that’s the spirit the recipients take them in. It’s the act of sending the card that matters. The message itself is secondary.

We don’t get any round robins these days, I think they are generally regarded as naff or braggy.

Oh same @OopOop - haven’t bothered in years myself! But if you are bothering, make a bloody effort with them 😂

Controversial opinion (and I don’t do them myself) but we get two round robins in Christmas cards each year and I really enjoy them! One is from a uni friend of mine who doesn’t do a lot on social media so it’s nice to hear where he’s been on holiday etc. he also personalises it so eg it will say “in March we really enjoyed spending some time with you and your family when we came to visit” and I’m sure he does the same for other recipients.
The other is a month by month boast from DH’s cousin about how rich they are (more or less literally! Things like “in March we spent the equivalent of the GDP of a small country on xyz”) which is so insanely tasteless that it’s hilarious and we all really enjoy that too!

Haha I absolutely love a RR too. Sadly we don’t receive any but there are piles of them every year at my mums’. Some I enjoy because they’re nice, others because they’re braggy.

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