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Ok then, so what's all this 'I'll give a Christmas card to everyone' malarky about?

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poppiesinalinewithtinsel · 05/12/2006 12:20

I think Christmas cards should only be given to friends that you don't see regularly and family. Why give a card to people who you see almost every day? Seems silly to me. And you end up spending so much on Christmas cards.

or am I being Bah Humbug?

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zippitippitoes · 05/12/2006 12:22

I give practically no cards..sort of arose by mistake but settled into it now..means i don't get many either but we have no where to put them really so i think it just svaes trees

nogoeswithbellson · 05/12/2006 12:23

No I totally agree Poppie, when I was at work I would get cards from people sat next to me, why?

expatinscotland · 05/12/2006 12:23

We give cards to all our work colleagues.

I'm not sure why, though, but I go along w/it .

Baaa. Baaaa.

DonnerDasherDancerDior · 05/12/2006 12:24

Ooh, I love getting cards. I give loads too, but then I make and write them all.

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poppiesinalinewithtinsel · 05/12/2006 12:30

I make my own too which is why I don't want to give too many out actually - takes hours to make that many!!!

The mums from school have started giving out cards I always give in and give a card back cos otherwise I feel mean.

bah!

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DonnerDasherDancerDior · 05/12/2006 12:32

Poppies - bah humbug!

Listmaker · 05/12/2006 12:32

But I love getting cards and love seeing them all up so I give loads too. I don't have many Christmas decorations so they make the place festive!!

TooTickyDoves · 05/12/2006 12:36

Waste of trees if you ask me.

Carmenere · 05/12/2006 12:51

I sent about 25 last year to all my friends and family back home. I got 1, yes 1 back and that was from my mum. I was actually really upset so I won't be bothering this year

BudaBauble · 05/12/2006 12:53

Oh Carmenere that's terrible .

I send cards - mainly to people overseas but also to family and friends. I like to receive them too.

TinselgalacticWalrus · 05/12/2006 12:54

I usually write all mine after a flash of inspiration at about 11pm on a Friday, when I am invariably squiffy, so it's signed from the wrong people, or I have put a cheesy, gushing message inside.

Makes it much more fun.

I always intend to only send a few, but I am one of those poeple who thinks "Ooh, If I send a card to X, then I'll have to send one to Y. Oh and Z as well" etc etc

Carmenere · 05/12/2006 13:01

I know, I may relanet but probably not, I'll just send e-cards to most I think.

Missybabyitscoldoutside · 05/12/2006 13:05

i think that cards that say:

To x
standard greeting
from y

are a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME

Now, if you write something a little more personal, then it means something.

Tinker · 05/12/2006 13:06

The worst are just:

Their name, nothing else!

FLAMEinEckItsYuleAgain · 05/12/2006 13:07

I hate cards with a passion - they fall off the side and just irritate me.

I tend to only give to those who expect them and who I can't be rude and snub (work people were always snubbable, DH's family less so )

maycontainstress · 05/12/2006 13:10

I give cards out to my neighbours and people I work with. I've never really thought about it before but I do spend hours writing the bloody things out and trying to deliver them all.

Its ridiculous. I could send an e-card to everyone and donate a tenner to charity (which is what it costs when you add up postage, driving around delivering and my time ).

Wordsmith · 05/12/2006 13:10

I like getting cards from people I never see any more, with bits of news, but I hate those self congratulatory round robin letters some people send sometimes get - "this year little Johnny surpassed himself getting his grade 12 piano at only age 7, and Esmerelda got 8 starred A's in her A levels.... we're off to outer mongolia for our holidays communing with the natives in a yurt.... granny had a boil lanced on her big toe...." YUK.

I send about 60 cards or more but I must admit half of them I wonder why.

Tommy · 05/12/2006 13:11

agree Tinker, it makes me irrationally cross when I get one with just their names.

Last year, I was getting myself into a bit of a panic and apologised to my sister for not getting her one and she replied by text "cards are for keeping in touch - we do that all the time "

it made me realise how silly it is to be writing out cards to people who you may well see on Christmas Day and can actually say "Happy Christmas" to.

Yesterday, DS1 got one from a boy in his class who had onvously given them too the whole class - rather his Mum had written them all out - 30 cards! Why?

maycontainstress · 05/12/2006 13:12

I wrote 'and a happy new hair' in someone's card one year when I was trying to book a hair appointment on the phone. Poppies, you're not a humbug, you're right. What's the sense of saying Happy Christmas with a card to someone you see every day?

Most companies send a standard letter to each other wishing happy Christmas blah blah and say they've donated £50 to charity.

Sense.

Wordsmith · 05/12/2006 13:16

DS2's nursery send home a list of all the children in his room for you to do cards - he's only 2, fgs, he's not even capable of telling me who his friends are, or realising he has any!

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poppiesinalinewithtinsel · 05/12/2006 13:20
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DonnerDasherDancerDior · 05/12/2006 13:21

Yes, I need to do the children in ds' class.

paulaplumpbottom · 05/12/2006 13:30

I love getting Christmas cards and I think its a lovely tradition. People are just saying that they thought of you. I do understand though that they are a pain to fill out and address. Thank goodness its only once a year.

Stockingsofdinosaurs · 05/12/2006 13:33

I only do cards for people we don't see and who don't have email. Where do people's environmental consciences go at Christmas?

DD & I made cards for her preschool class this weekend (apparently it's cruel not to give cards) out of cereal boxes, prittstick and glitter. They are absolutely rubbish but hopefully they make a statement about how stupid the whole thing is.

foxtrottothefestivegrotto · 05/12/2006 13:45

preschoolers love giving and receiving cards tho' don't they. DD has just done hers, and was soo excited. Tomorrow she gets to post them in the school postbox.