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Had any round robins this year?

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dinny · 12/12/2008 17:10

I have had two

God, I love reading them

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pooka · 12/12/2008 17:11

I've had one. Great fun to read (particularly knowing about the ins-and-outs of the family).

slackrunner · 12/12/2008 17:12

No - sadly not. I think I've been crossed off the list from my favourite round robin sender

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dinny · 12/12/2008 17:13

I wish I got more - I think we usually total 3 max

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dinny · 12/12/2008 17:13

what makes people send them, do you think? because they like receiving them so much (which means I may be in danger of starting to do it next year )

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MrsMattie · 12/12/2008 17:15

No. We get them from three families most years, but nowt yet.

The Americans - 'Bob' and his boring banking job, 'Mom' and her endless dullard PTA antics, two teenage bitch brats daughters and their farking 'college' applications and am-dram foolishness

...and that's the most interesting one!

Another couple choose to bore us with tales of potty training and obscure HR issues at his workplace. FFS. Life. Get one!

belgo · 12/12/2008 17:15

I think they are a great idea, I love reading them. I have never sent one though

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dinny · 12/12/2008 17:16

is it an American thang?

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clam · 12/12/2008 17:18

If they're that dull, MrsMattie, what are you doing exchanging cards with them anyway?
The thing is, I like to hear what people are up to, rather than get the same old card, year in, year out, with no up-date at all, just the names hurriedly scrawled at the bottom. Where's the fun in that?

downbutnotout · 12/12/2008 17:18

I have sent my first this year but kept it very short and focussed on giving pictures of dcs esp. v. cute picture of ds-to-be at 32 weeks. I have been so knackered between pregnancy and my job that I haven't kept up with people this year and I just wanted to give them some sort of idea what we were up to. Hope no-one hates mine...

expatinscotland · 12/12/2008 17:21

no, thank fuck.

i bloody hate those things.

i did get a notice about my high-school's 20th reunion next year, sent to my parents' house.

i told my dad to chuck it in his compost pile.

i'd rather get hundred thousand papercuts on my face than show up at that thing.

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dinny · 12/12/2008 17:22

pmsl

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MrsMattie · 12/12/2008 17:22

I send a polite 'Merry Xmas' to the Yanks because they are business associates of DH. The others are friends of my parents, so again, they get a hastily written 'Seasons Greetings' out of politeness.

In return I get their life fucking story.

Oh, and I suppose I get a few cruel laughs, the sort that make you feel like a bad person, but also secretly make you happy that no matter how sad you are, you aren't as sad as the people who choose to tell everyone in their address book at great length about what happened when their goldfish died...

Kathyis6incheshigh · 12/12/2008 17:23

I love them. My parents get a great one from friends with a smallholding detailing the health and reproduction of their various rare breeds.

We have just had one from dh's uncle's ex-wife. All FIVE of her new dh's grown-up children have got divorced or separated this year

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dinny · 12/12/2008 17:25

I bet you get a little shiver of anticipation as you realise there is a folded piece of paper within the Christmas card, eh MM and Expat....?

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expatinscotland · 12/12/2008 17:27

It gives me a perverse satisfaction to run them through the shredder without reading them, dinny .

I could hear a twinge of disappointment in my mother's voice when I told Papa to compost the high school reunion thingy without my ever reading it.

I just never was into all that sentimental shite.

expatinscotland · 12/12/2008 17:27

It gives me a perverse satisfaction to run them through the shredder without reading them, dinny .

I could hear a twinge of disappointment in my mother's voice when I told Papa to compost the high school reunion thingy without my ever reading it.

I just never was into all that sentimental shite.

sagacious · 12/12/2008 17:28

I got one similar to pooka

Absolute shocker -apparently little Johnnie is doing marvelously in his new job in the Middle East

Except they don't know I am a facebook friend of little J and hes a drug addled loser who has lost his job and is currently battling extradition.

VivaLaPotPourri · 12/12/2008 17:33

no, I never get them , thank god. My mum does though, and she used to send them. All exaggerated, of course.

MrsMattie · 12/12/2008 17:33

I know I am Ebeneezer. But really, there is no excuse for Round Robins.

WalkingInAWonderStuffingLand · 12/12/2008 17:38

LOL saga.
I dont get any.. but then I am really rubbish at sending out cards, when is the last day? Obviously I'm missed the US again haven't I.. Oh well

Tn0g · 12/12/2008 17:39

We got one yesterday, it made a very good firelighter.

SparklyTinselBella · 12/12/2008 17:47

I am confused. Please enlighten me. I really don't see what is wrong with round robins...

I have never sent one but I have received lots and I do genuinely enjoy reading them

Am I the only person in the entire world who feels this way?

noonki · 12/12/2008 17:51

my dad once sent one about us when we were teenagers, it was quite funny looking back (for my dad)...

it went along the lines of:

Noonki is ballsing up at school once again,

Her hobbies now include smoking and she is perfecting the art of swearing at her parents.

...we didn't get anyone else's the next year

EbeneezerSlouch · 12/12/2008 17:54

Ahem...I don't do Round Robins (as I understand them, typed/photocopied info stuck in each chrimbo card willy-nilly). I do always pop a non-boastful handwritten note to my Uni housemate - we haven't seen each other in years and chrimbo cards are about the limit of our relationship these days.

Is this allowed? Or am I irredeemably naff?

SparklyTinselBella · 12/12/2008 17:57

You see, I can understand where you're coming from, EbSlouch. I have friends whom I don't see as often as I would like and I enjoy hearing what they have been doing.

It also makes it easier for me when I do eventually get around to picking up the phone to have some idea what they are up to, and I can ask, 'So, is your dd enjoying her horse riding lessons then?'.