I just wish people would stop sending me Christmas cards

[iCod]

They're pointless, wasteful and a poor form of communication. All I do is read the "Happy Christmas from Joe and Julie" and walk them to the recycling.

I haven't sent any for over 25 years and I just don't see the need for them at all.

Elderly people love getting them so please keep sending to them. Send beginning Dec as well. Honestly it might be a chore but it will cheer their day.

40s, 50s generation not so bothered.

The next generation probably won’t contemplate sending any at all.

SO, so glad to read a number of anti-Christmas card threads this year. And one from @iCod no less!! An influencer if ever there was one!

Christmas cards have had their day. They ONLY exist to induce guilt and/or enable you to demonstrate your efficiency at busywork and wifework.

Oh, and to help us all fuck over the environment.

Please let's drop them altogether and cut off just one of the tangle of tasks that make Christmas a chore rather than a pleasure.

I like them, it’s a good way to keep in touch and share news.

My partner puts them in the recycling without even opening them. We’ve told people we don’t want them so I think that’s fair. We don’t send any which doesn’t suit a few people but 🤷🏻‍♀️

I like them if they are good quality nice ones as I love looking at them. Flimsy and cheap no thanks !

Well at least no one has mentioned giving to charity instead, that's usually said on these threads

I have a feeling you will have a disturbed night's sleep on Christmas eve...

I have to say I find this miserable and ungrateful. Be glad people think about you.

I keep all my money for me….mwahahaha.

Due to the price of stamps I tend to take people off the Christmas card list if I don't receive one back for two years running.

I do feel sad each year though as I come to remove those who have died in the year.

I love receiving the ones we still get and make a nice display.

Why is it wife work, DH and I do each side ourselves, I wouldn't do anything for his family and friends and he wouldn't mine, we never have.

People who think about me, text, call and/or visit us to see how we and we do the same. Writing a card in the way most people do which is ‘To You Happy Xmas From Us’ doesn’t mean anyone is really thinking of you, not in any meaningful way anyway. I remember my mum rushing to write over 100 cards, moaning her way through it, hardly an act of love and thoughtfulness. 😅

I love them and use them as decorations. Being on someones Christmascard list is an honour. I swear mumsnet moans if things aren't christmassy enough but wants all the traditions thrown in the bin.

Most of our family are dead now so that knocked a lot off for both sending and receiving

I sent 3, dh sent 7, we currently have 8 sat here. I’ve stopped sending to friends my age completely

I’m the opposite - I love Christmas cards and am quite disappointed I’ve only received 2 this year. Both of them were from elderly relatives, so I do think it’s a tradition that is disappearing.

I dont mind recieving cards. They are jolly enough.

I dont care enough to send them to people though. Only for 4 elderly relatives who really care. I write a personal message in them.

What is with the professional misery on MN this year.

This ^

We still send and receive Christmas cards - although the numbers have gradually dropped to around 15 - but moved to a new area last year where many of the neighbours give them, so our numbers have now actually increased into the twenties again! Although around 20 years ago, I remember sending/receiving 50+ and my parents used to send/receive 70-80 back in the day!

Over the years we've moved about a lot (our last house was in rural Wales - we didn't receive any from our 2/3 neighbours during our six Christmases there) and the eight cards we've had from our new neighbours here in West Sussex is the most we've ever had from people that aren't family/close friends/work colleagues.

Not only is it lovely to feel welcome, but the cards are brightening up our building site of a home lol!

I like a Christmas card. I like cards. I like happy post.

I am very particular on what I buy.

I hang them up in the hall and it looks cheery.

Totally respect those who think it is pointless. But I think about the card designers/printing companies, my local independent card shop that sells lovely cards and gifts... it will be a shame when it's gone.

The independent card shop in our town closed about 3 years ago, only one that has customers now is Card Factory which often look busy

Oh I agree @iCod but you will get your arse handed to you.

Chr cards to me date from a time when it was much harder to be in touch. The onyl way was to write, and even when I was young, you had to go to the trouble of a phone call, and the person might not be in. So Chr cards made sense as a way of staying in touch.

But now - texting, messaging, SM, email, a load of ways to chat to someone and wish them well. I've not sent any for about five years and it is so liberating. Yes agree with @redskydelight

Please don't send me a pointless piece of cardboard with "love Julie and Ben" on. No you are not thinking of me - I am just on some list you have. Please just paypal me the money – if you are sending first class that's at least £2 with the card.

And every year people post on here saying "I get a card that's for people who moved out 10 uears ago" or "I can't remember my cousin's husbands name, what shall I write in the card?" Surely that shows that the people in question are hardly close friends. If I don't know someone's name then I don't think I need to bother sending them Christmas greetings.

I love Christmas btw so I am not bah humbug about it at all. I love the prep – shopping, wrapping, Christmas tunes on the radio, carol service, Christmas band concert. I love choosing gifts for my family and wrapping them; I love the tree and the fairylights; I love buying some different food and cooking a lovely meal; most of all I love spending some time together, playing games, watching TV, chatting, with nowhere to go and nothing to do.

I agree @Pancakeflipper some cards are so beautiful - we always try to choose something a bit different to show the recipients we've given it thought. So, when DS was a chorister, we hunted out cards with choirs etc on (predictable, I know!). These days we like to find designs with Pre-raphaelite type imagery as that's our thing, although DH appreciates a vintage style card so I seek those out for him 😄

I love Xmas, just not cards. We all have preferences and that’s ok.

I am another one who doesn't send Christmas cards... mainly because, if you are special enough to feature in my personal life, I'll say 'Merry Christmas'/'Nadolig Llawen' to you (or at least, send a message). The only person that I send letters to- since I moved away- is my extremely deaf grandmother, who has trouble with hearing what I've said (both in person and over the phone), so if I write to her, she understands perfectly.

I'd rather not receive cards, but certain people still do, like an elderly neighbour, my grandmother and my mother. I don't have a mantelpiece, and have shutters instead of curtains, so window-sills are also a no-no! If I stuck them on a wall, I'm sure that one of my dogs would have an entertaining time trying to get them down...