Do you like Christmas cards ?

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We have some elderly relatives / neighbours and friends & family that don't live close by and won't be seeing them for Christmas.I

We send those people cards and I guess it's nice to receive back but if I'm being honest I hate having to find space for cards that we are given and expected to reciprocate .
I'm also in a group ( hobby about 10 people ) and we give each other cards. I

We even have someone in our street ( hello Jeff & Mary ) that post one through our door and as well as their name put @ No 9 , so we send one to them as well ,
I wouldn't know them if I walked past them !

So would we be a grinch if we culled down our Christmas card list ?

I'm still receiving & therefore sending cards to people I worked with 10 years ago and never seen since !

I love sending Xmas cards, birthday cards, random just because cards.

I only send to elderly relatives who I won't see, and I make sure to write inside what we're doing.

To me Xmas cards are just a way of saying "I still think of you, you are not forgotten". That's worth a quid to me. But then my kids are too old to do Xmas PJ's, Xmas eve boxes so Xmas is a scaled down event these days.

I send cards to anyone I care a lot about but, due to distance, won't have seen during December. My list this year is 12 people/households long and I would be pleased to get cards back from any of them.

In 2024, I am going to really try to cut down on general food waste, eat less meat and cut back on general consumer spending. I think that these will all have a much bigger environmental impact than stopping my 12 cards.

Any cards I get look rather jolly on the mantlepiece - but they do go straight into the recycling bin on Jan 1st.

I like sending them.

I don’t like receiving them as they look really messy and get in the way. One year I put them all on a nice bowl thinking anyone who wanted could look through them but DH kept putting them up.

Also- I do write a personal message in all of them. I think if you are going to just sign your name, it is a bit of a waste of a stamp.

Get rid.

I open them, think 'oh that's nice' and then put in a pile for DH to read, then tuck them under a pile of paperwork until I can throw them away.

I have nowhere to display them, and I loathe them on ribbons etc on the wall. Makes the house look messy and cluttered. We only get a handful.

I love them.

I love sitting and writing them, I love receiving them.

Much to the apparent horror of @Moredarkchocolateplease we usually string ours on ribbon

I do make sure to buy recyclable cards though, no glitter etc.

Absolutely cull your list though - no guilt needed there.

I barely send any, but happy to receive and display them on ribbons , they take up no space and look Christmassy

Love a Card. Hang on a string across dining room ceiling (include previous years if particularly pretty!).

Stopped cards a few years ago when it dawned on me how daft it was to post bits of cardboard with expensive stamps on them all over the country just for them to get chucked away 2 weeks later.

We only receive a few and usually from older relatives. There's a few that come from work but it feels a wa

Yes, I love sending and receiving cards .. I probably don't send as many as I used to but it's a lovely way of keeping in touch with people .. I don't do Facebook or any other social media (apart from Mumsnet). I don't give to people I see routinely at work or in social groups .. mainly posted to friends and family who live away and we don't meet up very often.

I store the cards with my Christmas decorations and cut them up as gift tags for the following year!

I love giving and receiving hand written Christmas cards. I think it’s so sad it seems to be dying out as a tradition.

I love having cards up and keep some of the most meaningful each birthday/Christmas. Fortunately since I became a teacher I send and receive lots of cards again as it was a little sparse for a few years!

I also love postcards but they aren't sent as much now.

I love them and they are part of my Christmas decorations. I hate the miserable trend for not sending them, it's so unfestive.

You'd end a friendship if someone said they'd rather not receive a card?! 🤣

Love them.
We use them as part of the decorations. I don’t send ridiculous quantities though.

I particularly hate the tight bastards who say they are “donating to charity” instead. We do cards AND donate and don’t feel the need to
broadcast it on socials.

I love Christmas cards, I am tardy to send them but prioritise elderly relatives and dear friends overseas, and I love receiving them. I even like Christmas round robin letters (even the boastful ones which always give everyone a good laugh, in a kind way!) but they now seem to be extinct.

A bit sad that the more human, personal, aspects of Christmas - handwritten cards and messages of thought and goodwill - are trending down while Minimalist Decor, Christmas Boxes, and Experiences, are trending up. (#grinch)

I love them, sending and receiving them. I'm a minimalist, but the cards are part of my decorations.

I also make them into gift tags afterwards.

@AlltheFs ah, my cousin does this. Really grates on my nerves, especially as they make a point of posting it in the family group chat EVERY YEAR.

No they go straight in the recycling, unless handmade

I always think they are lying. Or they donate a fiver which doesn’t even cover the stamps.

I’m always tempted to suggest they share the receipt….

I love them.

I find it very sad that I have so few people to send them to (who'd want them) 😔

I stopped sending them years ago. I’m ambivalent about them, but it’s way to expensive to buy and send. I’ve worked hard for my money and prefer to be able to eat than send someone a card - especially when it’s the only time we are in contact! If neither they nor I can be bothered the rest of the year - I’m not wasting time or money on a card.
Those we are in contact get Christmas greetings either in person or by text.

I don’t get or send any, I don’t understand what they’re for. 75p to get a bit of card that says ‘To Name, love from us’?
If it’s to show someone you’re thinking of them why not get in actual contact?