Those bloody enormous Christmas cards

[MamaGoblinUpTheGingerbread]

What do we think of them? Personally, I think they're ostentatious tasteless too big a waste of money!

I don't go out and buy 'individual' cards for family/close friends - most of them are pretty tacky and they cost so much! Family either get homemade or nicer-than-normal cards from a charity pack of 10, but I've never felt the need to buy family members 'special' cards. Does this make me a humbug?

My PIL and SIL always get us a 'special' card and while I think it's a nice thought from them, the things are horrible in themselves! So there are two of them hanging off the bannisters and I'm not kidding, they're the size of a sheet of A4 paper!

I don't like anything bigger than a school exercise book. Not only do they look a bit odd and cause trouble in where to put them/keep falling off the shelf, they also make me feel slightly inadequate that I only gave a multipack card from the charity shop in return

A4 is not huge though, do you mean A1 - like a poster? Those are REALLY awful...

A4's plenty big! I can't get my head around one that might be poster-sized! Most of the cards we get are about 15cm high and the big ones look even more like freaks.

This is not, however, a thinly-disguised thread about my OCD tendencies re. un-matchy Christmas cards.

My friend always buys 'special' cards. It's not something that my family have ever done so I'd never think to do it - infact I've only sent about 3 cards at all so far this year. My friend bought a card on my behalf to give to her son (who is my Godson) a few years ago because I hadn't sent one with Godson on it . She kept using that one for a few years then this year she brought one for me to actually write in for him. I'd be insulted if I didn't find it quite so entertaining!!!

{grin] at Mogs!

I'm always amused at the vast range of people you can send that sort of card to now (the type that say 'to a very dear grandson' etc) on the front. 'Happy birthday, dear Brother-in-Law', 'dear Step-grandma' I saw the other day (does anyone call the woman their grandad married the second time, Stepgrandma??) and so on.

Actually, I think I'm exposing my own snobbery re. cards and sending of. DH combs newsagents and stationery shops to find a birthday card for his mother that says Mom rather than mum on, and it takes ages. (Brummie, not Yank!)

Ah, friend is a Brummie too!!