Are you sending Christmas cards this year? Or less than previous years?

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Just curious as I can’t decide whether to cut costs and really streamline my Christmas card list, or to fully embrace the season of goodwill and send everyone on my list a card as usual!

We donate the money to a local charity instead but we do buy Christmas cards for my SIL and for the old folk in my family ie they are in their 70s and just wouldn't understand the no Christmas card bit so I will literally be posting out 4 cards with a 75p second class stamp on each.

Last year SIL gave us our card when we saw her on Christmas day. I don't see the point in that at all. It isn't like Christmas is a surprise. Get the cards written and posted out.

not controversial, cards have always been a total waste of time, money and resources, stupid habit

I am sending my normal amount this year, zero, which has been my normal amount for the last 60 years

I am sending less, mainly because I live in Sweden now and where I live no one sends Christmas cards. I will be sending cards to friends and remaining relatives back in the UK. I cross stitch my cards (a hobby of mine) and I enclose a proper letter in each card.

I've not sent them to anyone I see in person over the festive season for a few years now.
This year will be the same amount of cards to friends and relatives that we won't see in person.

Oh yes, to add to my previous comment - My family and most of my friends are scattered across the globe. If I lived close enough to see them I wouldn't send cards. Here in the UK I send to my sister (who I don't usually see over Christmas as she often goes home), PIL and DH's grandmother.

Less, I only send them to close family, hand delivered where possible. Unfortunately this is our first Christmas without both my in-laws, last year DMiL was in hospital with dementia related issues and pneumonia, I also had a double chest infection so overall it was crap.

I'll send a couple to elderly relatives whom I know will be sad if December 1st rolls around and they don't have any cards to put up We'll visit in the run up to Christmas with a tin of biscuits or similar, but I know they will consider that too late to hand deliver a card.

Same as usual, 40-50. We have a lot of very far-flung friends. I like receiving them too - blu tacked to vertical painted surfaces they form part of our decorations.

I will send my normal amount of Christmas cards, around 25.

My mother will send her normal amount, which is around 100!
She loves to send cards, and she receives many too.

I didnt send more than about four last year, and actually really missed them. I do have a lot of friends and family abroad tho, and find it a nice thing to get as well as send. this year I will send about 20. I love cards, I hate to see it die out. I use recycled paper ones btw!

I used to send and receive about 120 cards every year. Now that number has halved as lots of older friends and relations are no longer here. I do like Christmas cards, I hang them up in the kitchen on red ribbons fixed with little gold and silver clothes pegs.

I know this is controversial but I read Christmas / birthday/ anniversary cards and then bin them pretty much straight away. I expect others do the same once they've read the message, so I think it's been a big waste of money in previous years.

Up to you what you do, but I wouldn't assume that everyone does the same as you.

Although I get fewer cards every year, the amount I have on display (a ribbon on the picture rail in the hall) doesn't vary as I have old ones from "absent friends", people who have since passed away. Putting their cards up still is a way of acknowledging them when they are no longer here, and I like seeing their writing and loving messages. If I threw them all out once I'd read them, I wouldn't be able to do that.

I'll be sending fewer cards this year because the postage is so steep, and I expect we'll receive fewer for the same reason. One old friend is always first to send her card to me but I haven't got one yet; maybe she has sent it and Royal Mail have messed up (easily possible) or maybe she's decided against sending me one (could be) or maybe it's in the post and she's just late this year (many reasons why it might be the case). I'll send her one this year regardless and see what happens next year.

I had planned to send my normal amount; I usually thoroughly enjoy making them, writing them and posting them but honestly forgot all about any of that until I saw this thread. And now I don't have time to make/write/send them all in good time, so will just make a couple for my great Aunts that I don't see often enough and that will be that.