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I just can't be arsed to write these Christmas cards

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JoshandJamie · 06/12/2006 21:16

Seriously. I normally enjoy doing this. But this year I just can't seem to be arsed. Someone motivate me please.

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wickedwinterwitch · 06/12/2006 21:17

Put your pen down, put the cards in the cupboard, have a nice glass of wine and don't bother. It's liberating not sending cards. Well, ykwim.

motherinfurrierfestivefrock · 06/12/2006 21:17

Don't do it! Send a donation to a charity - do it online now - for the cost of the postage, and email everyone telling them what you've done. Attach a pic of your kids if you feel like it. That's what I'm doing. Indeed, it's also what Friends of the Earth recommends - on account of the paper and pollution involved in transport yada yada yada - so you can feel truly smug.

paulaplumpbottom · 06/12/2006 21:18

Put on some Christmas music, clear away a lovely clean space to do it. Put on a pot of coffee. You'll be done before you know it.

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JoshandJamie · 06/12/2006 21:26

the problem is that I've already had a glass (ok 2) of wine and now just feel like lying on the sofa watching crap instead of doing cards or planning my christmas menu or sorting through the kids hideous toy box and chucking all the rubbish etc. Oh god, there's still the laundry to do too. Sigh

I like the charity idea - and have bought charity gifts from save the children for family abroad - but most of the people I send cards to i don't have emails for. I think what's getting me down is every year I send these cards off to people I barely know (DH's friends) and say: gosh, we must get together this year. And well, another year has gone by and we still haven;t seen each other - so I think, why the hell do we send cards. What's the point. We don't talk. We don;t see each other. We used to once know each other a long time ago, but if we stopped sending cards, it officially means that that part of our life is over.

Deep. Maybe I need more wine.

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motherinfurrierfestivefrock · 06/12/2006 21:27

I definitely wouldn't send them to DH's friends. No way.

paulaplumpbottom · 06/12/2006 21:29

I make my DH do the cards for his friends.

mistletoemania · 06/12/2006 21:36

ditto have tree up ages and am now watching love actually have so much to do hate writing cards and started last night might have glass of wine!?! then i'll really write dribble

WonderCod · 06/12/2006 21:37

DONT i dont sendthem

WonderCod · 06/12/2006 21:37

NEVER wirte cards for your dh
thatw ahtw stopped me
you still gett hem btw

WonderCod · 06/12/2006 21:37

AND if you only send cards and never see the folk maybe its time to let it go

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JoshandJamie · 06/12/2006 21:38

am also watching love actually - well sort of in between sighing a lot about cards and loss of friends over the years.

Oooh - that carl guy off Love Actually is a bit of a hottie. Just got side tracked while typing

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moondog · 06/12/2006 21:39

I can't be arsed doing anything anymore frankly.

I am so bored with it all

paulaplumpbottom · 06/12/2006 21:40

Isn't that whats nice about Christmas card? At least you can keep in tough with them once a year.

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JoshandJamie · 06/12/2006 21:44

paulaplumpb - great name by the way - I agree which is why I've always done it. But it's been too many years now of saying: gosh, well we didn't see each other again this year, but maybe next year.... that's getting to me.

Am almost tempted in my now 2.5 glass of wine state to start writing: well now, we haven't seen you and really aren't likely to - don't even know what your kids names are (do you have kids??) so really, why don;t we just agree not to send cards anymore. No hard feelings. Sure you're still lovely and if you're ever in our neighbourhood look us up...

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WonderCod · 06/12/2006 21:45

nop jsut dont send them
dotn write to get permission not to send them

moondog · 06/12/2006 21:48

I have a bulging sack of Christmas cards to sell for my kids' Sunday school.
I have bought a huge pile myself because I just can't be fucking arsed to hoik them about trying to flog them.

The person who designed one in particular should be charged with Crimes against Art.

I will also never send them myself.

Gah,am like Billy Liar and the calendars.

TEEstheCEEsontobejolly · 06/12/2006 21:48

Just thinking the same thing myself which is why I came on here, so bored with them.
Trouble is I really enjoy receiving them, so nice to get a card from people I don't hear from that often. I write a personal message in each card, nothing major but each one different. I'm doing a handful a night.
My cards are from the Down's Syndrome Assoc so they benefit at the same time.

paulaplumpbottom · 06/12/2006 21:50

If you are sad that you don't get together, maybe this year you could arrange something. I think sometimes everyone does want to get together but they all need one person to start making plans.

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JoshandJamie · 06/12/2006 21:54

problem is that everyone lives far away - like different countries - so organising to see each other isn't going to be easy.

What irritates me is I say to DH: do you want to send to so and so. Yes, he says, definitely. So I say: well write it then. Well I will, he says. But not now. Which means never. So I say, if you want to send it, do it now or tell me what to write. So he tells me what to write - the exact same thing as last year.

So then I write my own thing and say, are they still at xx address. Definitely not, he says. They haven't been there for ages - like it's my bloody fault that I don't have HIS friends' bloody new addresses. So I threw the card at him and said: well get their address. So it's safe to say that one won't be sent.

Tis the season to be jolly....

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admylin · 06/12/2006 21:56

How many do you have to write?

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JoshandJamie · 06/12/2006 21:59

I've bought 30 cards and that's where I'm stopping

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motherinfurrierfestivefrock · 06/12/2006 21:59

Funnily enough, you know, I don't mind doing party bags unlike almost everyone else on MN. But I can tell you deciding not to do cards (although admittedly I do have the email option) has caused a weight to fall from me.

DP thinks this is a frightful stance to take but I haven't noticed him doing any of his yet

expatinscotland · 06/12/2006 22:00

Just write, 'Merry Christmas! Love, Us' and stick 'em in the post.

Get drunk and write 'em.

TEEstheCEEsontobejolly · 06/12/2006 22:04

You MUST drink wine while doing it, oh and eat chocolate and have a good film on.

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JoshandJamie · 06/12/2006 22:06

That's the problem - no chocolate

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