Christmas Card from a dead Aunt......

[RudolphsAuntMabel]

Can't decide whether Uncle has gone loopy or whether he was just so used to writing both names (maybe he's shacked up with someone else with the same name) but Auntie was cremated about 5months ago so I erally hope she was dead!!

OMg scary!

Aww poor uncle, must have done it automatically.

Aw that's really sad. My granny told me that the Christmas after my grandpa had died she had to tear up loads of cards because she kept writing "with love from Hilda and Ralph" on them .

So sad I miss my granddad, wish I was getting a card from him this year

Think he probably just did it out of habit - when my MIL wrote my Dd's birthday card after my FIL had died she did the same thing and had to go out and get another.

I once sent several cards in fit of absent-mindness "signed" Marina and , prompting panic-stricken calls from rellies wondering if we had suddenly split up.
Great thread title RAM, but do hope your uncle is OK. The first Christmas after losing your other half must be very hard...

I sign all my cards in my Mumsnet name too!

Must take you ages CRSEIH!

Some people do this ...

One of DH's school friends died when he was 18 or something (run over by a car, I think? Something random and sudden). We invited his parents to our wedding, as they're still family friends, and DH wanted to. The wedding card was from the parents, the sister, and the deceased friend. This was 7 years after his death or something.

It seems really weird and morbid to me, but I've never lost a child, so what do I know.

I would say it's out of habit. My mum has been close friends with a married couple for over 40 years. The husband died about 8 or 9 years ago but she still refers to them as a couple

Our dear friend R died when his wife was 5 months pregnant with their first child. When A was born, his wife sent out a birth announcement saying "R and L are proud to announce the arrival of A. . . "

That really choked me up.

I managed to send a Christmas card addressed to Mr and Mrs ..... to my Aunt who lost her husband the previous year. I felt so bad, my mum told me. I just went through my address book and copied them all out. .

well,on a lighter note,a friend of mine wrote a wedding congratulations card out to a mutual friend and her last boyfriend before the bloke she was marrying.

The groom thought it was funny but she didn't!!

The first christams after my cousin died my nan sent us all the presents he had bought for us before his death. It was nice to recieve the gifts but I did cry buckets. I still have my books and records to this day.

my grandma still signs cards from her and my grandad, he died 2 years ago next jan. i quite like it actually. he never signed a card so why change things! i also got a card from my nan for my birthday which was about 2 weeks after she died. she had bought it months in advance cos it was my 21st and my auntie found it. i still have it, wrapped in cellophane and not written on. i know who its from

My mum did this the Christmas after my brother died, she didn't realise she'd done it, and no-one told her for about 3 years. She said the worst thing is receiving cards to her dad, me and younger brother and missing out my deceased brother, she said it felt like everyone had forgotten him.

her, dad, me and younger brother and missing out my deceased brother