Who else feels that there are far too many Christmas cards being sent?

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At the risk of appearing to be a scrooge. I only send cards to friends I won't be seeing over Christmas. Just what is the point of sending them to people you see every day? Or to family that you are spending Christmas with? Surely it's a waste of the energy produced to make the cards, not to mention the trees cut down to produce them.

ds is only 4, he doesn't care about Christmas cards, he can't read or write, yet 6 of his nursery pals have sent him Christmas cards (actually no they haven't, their parents have) and I will be expected to send them back to these children. Surely that's going too far?

I'm going on a card strike.

Not by me, I haven't done mine yet

What really confuses me, it actually hurts my brain, is this obsession with giving 'family' cards ie. 'sister' 'brother in law' etc, I've had some people (who I see almost everyday anyway) hand me practically 20 cards, one for 'auntie' from their kids, 'sister' from them, nephew/nieces/cousin cards for my dcs... arghh I'm getting confused even thinking about it! My rule is one card per house, so a whole family will get one to all from all of us, not one each from each of us for gods sake, it's just silly!

i'm with the OP on this one

and don't you hate that moment, when you are out somewhere at this time of year and someone comes round with a handful of cards and dishes them out, one each? i mean, esp with work people, family, people you see all the time (eg church people - i imagine you see even more of each other than usual!)?
yesterday our orch did the annual performance at an old people's home and several people were walking around dishing out the cards. i just don't see the point, just say 'happy christmas' to each other .
and to top it off, one woman was dealing them out to people next to me (and i don't know her that well so i REALLY wouldn't have been offended not to get one) when she gave me one with no name written on the front. i had my suspicions and yep, she had just signed her name inside, so it wasn't especially for me, just a 'reserve' card in case she saw someone she hadn't thought of giving one too. i think that is just ridiculous!!!

my mil ALWAYS digs out a son & daur-in-law card for us and now a grandson card for ds, NO NEED!!!!

I'm remaining blissfully ignorant about how many people I've offended But what's the point running around buying loads more cards and staying up late doing them (I wouldn't even know the names of all of his classmates, he only plays with 6 boys there!). On the other hand, I have bought extremely nice presents for the nursery staff and written cards thanking them for caring for ds1 & ds2 because I think they deserve it.
DS1 is getting all tigger cards this year - was there some sort of deal at Asda?? 4 more today, sigh.

I do agree that nursery children sending each other crads is silly, but only a few send them at ds's nursery.

It's not a status thing though, and nor are 1300 cards being chucked in the bin at every nursery. or even at any nursery. and even if they were, 1300 cards is the equivalent of about 3 newspapers, or a couple of hundred yards in the car I should think...

it is a total waste of time and money in dd class there are 30 kids and 2 teachers so if every child sent a card that would be
31x30=930 per class, there are 4 classes so thats 3720 per year group and there are 3 year groups so that is 11160 cards sent just in one school, reception year 1 and year 2
I have informed the teacher of this and told her she should discourouge cards not send out a bloody name list!!!

Well, I know that at least 15 children are sending out cards at ds1's preschool class (and he's only 2 days anyway) and the other nursery he went to it was the same.
The amount of unnecessary cards being sent just at nursery across the UK must surely add up to a great deal, not taking into account businesses, schools, churches etc.

not just you- for years I have groaned and mumbled about nursery cards. When ds1 was small I wrote out 53 of the blasted things supposedly from him. Now onto ds3 and no way. I write ds1's cards as he can't, and also there are families I am fond of and we're in the ling haul together so to speak, but ds2 (aged 5) does his own and I don't do ds3's. Bah humbug. We can't hang any up at home anyway as ds1 just pulls them down.