How many Christmas cards do you send?

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I have realised that we now send 90 each year. Every year I say that I'm going to do an audit and only send cards to those who send them to me but then it doesn't feel in the spirit of Christmas.

Do you send cards?

Very few - none to colleagues or local friends, only to older generation relatives, so probably about 20.

The DCs however send loads.

We send to my mum, my dad and my nanna. DH family other side of world, we have an agreement not to bother because A) pricey to send and B) postal service in their country even shitter than royal mail and almost guranteed to get lost.

Don't bother with extended family, friends or DH colleagues. Tbh don't want to send them at all because I see them as a waste of resources and money, Dh insists we have to though so hey ho. I prefer ecards.

None! I feel so freeeeee!!

We send about 100.

I'm keen to cut it down, but DH likes to support scout post so he wants us to keep sending cards! He doesn't seem to get that we could just give them a donation so they still get the money but without having to actually do the work! I'll keep trying to convince him!

Oh gosh, that does sound easier. I have just sent mine (ones in the UK anyway) but every year it feels like more of a mission.

None! DC send them to their friends and make some for other family members and neighbours but I dont really involve myself in any of it other than to buy a tonne of craft stuff for them. They go and buy the stamps for any they want to send ( I DO pay, i'm not that bad!) and they take them to the post box too). I just can't be arsed. I rarely put them up in the house, they annoy me and just look very cluttery, and more often than not just say to... from... - not particularly inspiring.

About 80
Also about 20 work ones
Really want to stop the madness!
In this email age it's easier and more environmentally friendly to send an e- greeting.
But.... I can't put emails up around the house ......when I get them
Someone tell me to stop sending the damn things!

None. Dcs get a cheap pack of 20 each to do for school. I don't really understand cards tbh. I just say merry Christmas to people. If I don't see/speak to them in the month run up (or few weeks after) Xmas then I don't think they need a card from me tbh.

Just feel its a waste of money, time and effort tbh.

About 70 this year. I like sending them and am happy to carry on. I recycle all the ones we get in the Woodland Trust boxes, and I buy mine from charity shops rather than places that give 0.00001% of the price to charity, so I have a decent go at making the whole thing not too environmentally and ethically damaging.

chicky Stop! Really - you'll feel a lot more relaxed! I personally don't get why people send cards but that's cos I don't like them in my house - I have issues with clutter/crap! If you really want to stop the madness just don't send them, it's not hard. No one will cry because you don't send a card. It doesn't mean you don't like them (usually) and it's highly likely that it will be noticed.

Er, UNlikely

I do send less than I used to though because I have stopped sending some to people I just don't see anymore. Plus DH is looking for work atm so no workplace cards needed for him. I do realise (anticipating comments) that it's something I could economise on, but I enjoy it so would rather cut back elsewhere.

Between 20 and 30. 5 of those are to the other houses on the street and the rest to close family/friends.

Not a single solitary one.
It's great

I look back on the person who used to MAKE Christmas cards for 50 people who didn't really care and can't believe she was really me. The twit.

• My friends and relatives know I don't send them and love me anyway.
• People I don't know very well don't need one. If I haven't spoken to them all year, why would I just because it's Christmas.
• People I see all the time, I say "Merry Christmas" to the last time I see them before Christmas
• Cards from banks and sofa companies go straight in he bin

I come from an enormous family on both mum and dad's sides. Cousins, uncles and aunts everywhere! I used to spend three evenings doing the Christmas cards, what with the family and everyone else we know too.
I hated every minute of it. It felt like doing lines at school.
I received loads too with no space to display them.

I did a mental battle wieghing up the social niceties and how much I couldn't be arsed to do them. 3 evenings is a lot of time to sacrifice for something you don't care for.

I suppose if you enjoy doing them then great - continue by all means! If you find it a drudge (and really, thinking of doing the cards used to feel like a stone in my gut) then stop.

Few. There are Family and Friends not local / abroad who we won't see. Ditto some local one who I'm sending a present but not seeing. Total maybe 20? DH keeps up his family side, another 10 or so. Special people like grandparents may get home made ones from the DCs as well...

We also keep a list who sent any the previous year for reference.

The DCs get boxes of mini-cards to send to whoever they want. Could be all in their class (=30), could be a few chosen ones, I leave it up to them.

I do enjoy doing and receiving them, and I've already culled the ones with 'no meaning', and I have no problem/guilt ignoring social convention and receiving ones that I've stopped reciprocating years ago. My office colleagues get a shared box of home-made goodies instead of individual cards...

So I think everyone should decide what feels best for you. pictish (love the name btw) - wow 3 evenings! I need those for baking

Around the 100 mark, but we only get about 70 back usually. It's the most boring of Christmas jobs.

Most years I buy presents for about 30 people but I've scaled it back this year to 18. There are some poeple we've hardly seen all year so I'm not buying them a present - scrooge.