Rules of Christmas cards

[UnquietDad]

have a look here

(scroll down a little)

Also some other truths which have occurred to me:

If someone sends a card to your name, DP's name "and kids", or "and family", they either can't be bothered to write out the names of your six children or they have forgotten their names.

"we must meet up soon" means "I know we were friends in 1993 and I kind of feel guilty because I think we'd still get on really well if we lived in the same city, but given that we are 500 miles away it's unlikely, isn't it? Shall we move on?"

Any more?

what about people who just sign their name, no love from,dear whoever, kisses etc ?

Oh yes, my sister and BIL do that.

your sister does that to you ?

We're not close...

The person you send a cheapo card to (the ones that can hardly bear their own weight) will send you a very posh one with deep and meaningful verses inside.

I wrote several paragraphs in my friend from school's card (is that apostrophe right, btw...I am full of a cold and can't think straight) and it was not easy as I seem to have lost the ability to write with a pen since I discovered t'internet and I got one back today with just said "love from x, y and z". I felt a bit harrumphy.

And another friend from University sends one each year with "Keep in Touch!" scrawled in it. We have had no other contact for 17 years. Bugs the crap out of me.

I might not bother next year

Lol, I like that, I havent posted any christ,as cards, I did mean to, but I havent done it. There is only really I needed to post the others I can do by hand on sunday but I had one that I should've posted and felt bad because I got hers yesterday. Now I know she probably won't notice

I think if you haven't seen someone or had any other contact with them whatsoever in the year then it's totally pointless to still be sending cards! My dh has people like this and it bugs me!

I also hate it when people just right their names although I don't expect them to remember our 5 dds' names really.

I posted one to a friend this week and realised moments after it dropped in the pillarbox that I had not written her name inside as I had forgotten her DH's name and was racking my brains for it. I did write a nice long note inside so maybe she won't notice .

Forgetting the names of the 6 children in the intended recipient family is OK (in a completely waste of paper, waste of time sort of way). But some senders seem to forget their own children's names - from Caroline Peter and boys. And in some cases the sender forgets their husband's name as well from Caroline and family. I would like to be brave enough to just write 'ugh' or another small noise that succinctly suggests that I've lost the will to live with this Christmas card nonsense.
Happy Christmas everyone!

I know it's a little off the point but what I find really odd is the cards that we get from family friends where the parents are the same age as my parents (55-65) and the kids are the same age as me (25-30) and have moved out, got married, had families, and the parents are still signing their names on the cards! We get one from "mum, dad, dd1, son-il, dd2, ds and gd"
My parents stopped signing cards from me when I was 16!

That really made me smile Oh I haven't really bothered this year, I've sent a few but to be honest in the grand scheme of the universe I think worrying about sending bits of paper to people you have no other contact with through the year is not worth it really. I bet no one has noticed anyway!

I keep doing smiley faces in mine and it all looks like the work of a 6 yr old - there must be some sort of rule against this, am worried about my own abnormal cheerfulness.

And vice-versa - mum & dad still getting cards addressed to them and me even though I haven't "lived at home" for 14 years!

My mum wrote in my card, instead of mine, Dh's and three kids names...'Dear All' I was so incensed I ripped it up and threw it in the bin. And felt much better afterwards!!