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How many Christmas cards do you send, really?

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DitaVonCheese · 05/11/2011 22:25

I think we send something like 20-30, plus DD's classmates if they count, and for most of my life I haven't sent any at all Blush

On QI last night they claimed that 150 is average, which surely means someone's got to be sending 270 just to balance me out Hmm

Really? Is that really a normal number of cards to send? Seems completely insane to me.

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OvO · 05/11/2011 22:43

I stopped a few years back. My DS's make a few for their granny/aunties but that's it.

OvO · 05/11/2011 22:44

I don't even know 150 to send cards to!

MrsCampbellBlack · 05/11/2011 22:45

None - I just can't be bothered really

MrsCampbellBlack · 05/11/2011 22:46

Oh my mil sends loads - and loves to get loads - tis a generational thing I think [offends all young mn'ers who send xmas cards]

PreHeatedOven · 05/11/2011 22:51

Other than close family and friends none. So probably about 20 max xx

NudgeNudgeWinkWink · 05/11/2011 22:54

I have 3 dc and they'll be sending to all in their class, so thats 150 as a family without all the proper ones.

NudgeNudgeWinkWink · 05/11/2011 22:55

Oh god, scuse the maths!!

90 DC alone

MrsUnassumingTroll · 06/11/2011 04:33

About 70 or so.

The Queen must send out thousands, so maybe it's her that's skewing the stats?

boocha · 06/11/2011 15:29

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Pancakeflipper · 06/11/2011 15:31

60 to people I know. Then DS1 has his school ones and I suppose DS2 may send a few to nursery. So I suppose I better make sure we have about 80 cards to write.

pramsgalore · 06/11/2011 18:26

i send 8 homemade ones,

choux · 06/11/2011 18:29

None - I make a donation to charity and email all the people I would have sent a card to to tell them which charity I have chosen this year. Then I do something I enjoy with the hours I have saved.

Taffeta · 06/11/2011 18:46

About 100. DC send about 20 each. So as a family 140.

starfishmummy · 06/11/2011 19:10

Probably about 20.

MIL thinks we "don't get many". But i have rumbled that she keeps cards from year to year and displays them all.

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DitaVonCheese · 06/11/2011 21:30

This is all much as I suspected. Stephen Fry claimed that 150 per person was average Hmm I will never trust him and his made up facts programme again.

Unless it is just the Queen and Elton John skewing things. But really?

(Choux I like your style Wink)

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DitaVonCheese · 06/11/2011 21:31

Also lolling at starfish's MIL Grin

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pictish · 06/11/2011 21:33

None. None at all. I have wasted many a winter's evening writing the stupid, pointless things out, and addressing all the enevelopes...then one year I just decided not to.
It's great. I get fewer and fewer every year as a result, but that's fine by me.

Xmasbaby11 · 06/11/2011 21:34

About 60 between Dh and myself (DC still on the way!).

We don't bother giving any to colleagues - mostly for close friends and those who we don't see often because of distance. I only send a card if I have something to write in it.

TeWihara · 06/11/2011 21:54

I definately don't know 150 peoples addresses!

We did 40/50ish the last few years, I'm aiming for more like 20 this year, mostly to family abroad or who are elderly. The postage was costing forty odd pound on it's own, and it was just too much.

I do love getting cards and having them on display though, makes me feel all cheery and loved Grin

GetOrf · 06/11/2011 21:56

One, to MIL, as otherwise she would be hurt (she doesn't understand my christmas card embargo)

SacreLao · 06/11/2011 22:00

I do around 40 and my children do 25 each for their school friends.

My nan however sends out around 400 due to a large family and the fact that she sends them to almost everyone she knows / has ever known / walked past in the street so she must balance the rest of the UK out!

SacreLao · 06/11/2011 22:02

She even sent cards to EACH member of staff in the doctor's surgery she attends, the local shopkeepers, staff in Asda who have served her, people who she hasn't seen for so long she isn't even sure if they are still alive.

I don't know how she finds the time!

IwishIwasmoreorganised · 06/11/2011 22:05

We do about 120 from us as a family and then our ds's will give a few to their school friends.

We do use Scout post for about 100 though, and our troop makes thousands of pounds every year from running scout post for our town. If that wasn't the case we'd probably send far less.

girlywhirly · 07/11/2011 09:22

I noticed some relatives hadn't sent cards last year, so will cut back myself I think. There are some I don't know if they are still at the same address, or might be in a care home. DH and I have not many close relatives, so the majority of cards are to friends and people we don't see regularly. I guess it will be under 30, and some are delivered by hand. I always buy charity cards.

I remember that one of DH's very elderly aunts sent us three cards one year as her memory was failing! Maybe this accounts for some of the excessive numbers of cards sent, memory failure.