Come on then, admit it - how early do you write your Christmas cards?

[ELF1981]

... half down... half to go

Start early Dec, but lots go abroad

now or otherwise it won't happen

Seriously?

Blimey.

Can't start anything Christmassy until December.

Apart from making cakes and puddings...

OK, I know this is a bit sad but here goes. Last year I typed all my addresses on an Avery label template. In September. But it saves sooooo much time, I just press the print button and all my labels are done, just stick them on. Halves the time spent.

Abroad ones any day now.
Others get written and sent about 10 days before Christmas.
Takes me ages as i like to do a little note in each one, can't stand the typed circulars that come from some of my relations.

I must confess though that when Ds1's due date was 5 dec I wrote out all the cards in early November ready to just pop a birth announcement in to save postage!!! Then the little tinker didn't appear till 18th dec (sat) and all I could think about when my visitors came on the monday - 20th Dec was whether they could be trusted to get my xmas cards from dp and put them in the post box

Well, I usually start thinking about them about a week before Christmas and sometimes I get round to writing and posting some before the deadline, sometimes I don't!

I also do the typed circulars! Started about three years ago when I moved abroad. Everyone seems OK about it. At least they get some proper news, it does help to stay in touch more than a one liner.

We have never been anywhere interesting or achieved much so nothing to put people's backs up...

Usually done by end of October and ready to be mailed 1st December.

Very slack this year - or is it - way too busy at the moment - still have a lot to do.

Will start mine this weekend. And am going to spend time typing all my addresses in so I can do labels too. Meant to do this for last 3 years and haven't gotten around to it so thanks for the reminder chocchipcookie!

Choc chip - its the 4 sides of densly typed woffle that comes every year from a friend of mine bragging about everything, job, new cars, holidays etc etc. If I WERE to do a letter I'd try to make sure its written (as I'm sure you do!) as an interesting hello not a brag fest of the last 12 months

I'm finished. In october I did 5 a day (give or take0

write them ? I haven't made them yet !

made them...oh Mary Ann, you have outflanked us all
I do resist opening the box from Unicef until Advent Sunday, I have to say

I'd like to not make them,really ! but people expect me to do my own and I feel obliged to churn a new one out each year (though I do enjoy putting the glittery bits on !)

We have a friend who has got trapped in this infernal cycle of expectation too MaryAnn
I will be honest and say I adore getting handmade cards

I guess it's worth it in the end as people say how much they like them. I have a friend who always does her own and I keep each one - they are fab

Two thirds of the way thru - to be finished this weekend!

Dear FJ - re. my typed letter I struggle to fill a page! Believe it or not people actually say nice things about it but I think that has a lot to do with the fact that I am abroad so I don't see some people or have much contact at all. I didn't do a letter they wouldn't have much clue what we were up to.

So for this year:

no new cars
no childrens achievements to report
no promotions
holiday: one week in (horrid) rented cottage
house & garden: tomato plants died

I'm about half way through. Though I am making them all by hand (mini decoupage cards that can be hung on trees)

I tend to write out mine for work colleagues, family, inlaws etc, and then buy cards online for mum&dad and sisters.

i don't send cards, i wish everyone a merry christmas in person, by email [or ecards]or over the phone. For no reason in particular i can think of, cards really irritate me after they've been opened.

4 years ago

they are in a drawer in the kitchen

they are useless as i have had 2 babies since who's names arent on them

lol

I like to have mine done for the 1st of December, and I've always made them and for the last few years I've laminated a photo of us all (looking christmassy) with glitter etc, but I have to hand write the greeting and note to be laminated on the back side...takes forever and now it is sort of anticipated by family and friends..

chochipcookie - my tomato plants died this year too..

I don't send cards. I find them a flippin nuisance, waste of money , environmentally unsound, and a bugger to display.

I figure if I stop sending them year after year, people will stop sending them to me!