When writing you Christmas cards, please do not

[LynetteScavo]

sign your pets name underneath yours.

It makes you look slightly odd

snowofhands wierd!

eachpeach - the stamp is ordered

really?????
yay! (but will you need a new one next christmas, eh, eh????
SoH- yes- that is quite disturbing- I'm assuming the dog wasn't named Mr fluffles or somesuch, poor child!

Oh I hate that, especially with the paw print, also loathe the 'bump' as I feel it just tempts fate.

wife and mother that's depressing

sadly i just think it sounds a wee bit smug!

Actually this doesn't irritate me so much as smug round robins about 'Tarquin's academic success' (Tarquin if four)

However we sent ours out from DH, me, DD and DS and have already got four back saying 'who the feck is DS' (he's nearly five months FGS.

Oh and MiL has sent a card to each child but none to us Cowbag!

sounds familiar wmmc

'Who the feck is DS?'
Oh dearie me! What have you replied?

I signed my Christmas cards from TTT, hubby and baby due March, when I was pregnant with ds. It was the easy way to tell distant family the news.

I used to write my uncle's card from our cats, Domino and Tiger, and add his cats' names to the card as well.

lol Each peach - easily done!

Friends of my parents used to have cards printed from their dog. Just the dog.

NaO....smug??

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EachPeachPearMum - I haven't, I've just removed them from the address book. If they can't be arsed to find out I'm pregnant for nine months nor that I have a son who is five months next week they clearly aren't close friends

Saves me on stamps next year anyway

DH and I are considering sending out a round robin this year, detailing all the deaths (3), serious illness (5), bad debts (1 huge one) and so on. We thought we could make it ironic.

And then maybe my relatives will stop sending us rr's that are so bloody clever-clever that I don't know who they're referring to, let alone what they're talking about. "Tarquin celebrated his 19th in true epicurean style..." is understandable enough but "... he continues with his four-legged friends and has discovered that picking up the 'poo' in France is great fun." What? Has he become a sewage worker on the continent? Is he now a French dog groomer? WTF? Half the time I don't read them.

Does anyone really get round robins anymore? I thought they had been so thoroughly stigmatised that no-one did them. I used to do one for long-distance friends but stopped a few years ago. I guess Facebook has made them redundant now anyway though I'm not on it, which is why I still quite like the round-robin idea

I sign cards from our cat if I'm writing one to a cat person, and by the same token would address a card to them and their cats (I know a few people like this) but wouldn't do it on every single card.

This year, having first DC, I was tempted to put 'and bump', but thinking about it, this is the last year I'll be able to write the 'love from EC and EC's DH' that I can now do in my sleep, so I'm sticking with that and will add in new DC next year!

I do however hate it when people moan about not being able to get religious/non-religious Christmas stamps. People are still doing it this year even though you can now get either, instead of it alternating years like it used to.

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We have a 'friend' who not only signs the card from his dog but also includes a family portrait (bloke, wife and dog all together as a happy family). NGGGHHHFFFKKK.

Still, DD likes the picture of the dog.

So it's not OK to sign cards from me, the dog and the cacti as well, then?

Yes, I did. But I was a teenager and it was just to my parents...

pah...you're all miserable sods! I signed all my cards "from baby Bean (or bump) and the cats"...and they all had handpainted designs by my daughter. I can do what i bloody like with the cards i am sending to other people...be grateful you even get them!!!
It's sad to be honest...that you're all making excuses like "I was a teenager"...pah, grow up and be yourselves! Stop conforming to what you think you should be and just be jolly!

or maybe i am mad? who cares...i'm happy!

last year we signed our cards from M2OJ, D2OJ and bump!

This year i will let DS scribble in the cards before i write them.

I dont have a pet but my M+D and N+G both have pets and they put them in their cards!

Baaaaa Humbug you lot, my cards are signed from Me, DH, DD and (LOL wingsofachristmastreefairy) Dolly the dog too.

.....and I send them to people I've not seen for years and I'm thinking of sending some more as I completely forgot the idea of DD's photo on the front wearing the Father Christmas hat, oh and the round robin!! .

Goodwill To All