Do you send Thank You letters after Christmas?

[Hulababy]

We always do, from DD to anyone who has bought her a present.

This is really the first year she has been old enough to know what they are and why we send them. And she can now write most individual letters, so can add the name of the recipient and her own name, with a kiss. I can see these are going to take me a long time this year!!!

Do you do letters?

Yes,

And I eventually post them in May [sad}

I used to write letters as a child. Not sure if I will with Ds.

yes, i bought the cards today along with my wrapping paper

It's always spoiled a bit for me by certain of dh's aunts ringing his mother three days after Christmas and demanding to know where their thank-you letter is, but yes, we do - and would anyway, regardless of nagging relatives!

And this year dd wants to write the entire letter (with me having to spell everything out) ... we'll still be writing them at Easter, I think!

I do letters. Although this year to encourage me to do them more quickly, I have bought thank you cards. I am getting worse at doing thank you letters but will try and be better this Christmas (have only just finished thank you letters for presents for when DD was born (and she is 3 months tomorrow ))

yes I do but I write and sign them. I don't pretend it is my 2 year old writing thme. I hate that.

I make them myself and try to put a pic of ds using toy/wearing outfit too cos I'm sad like that. Actually I gave up on that last year and just sent one of him on the day.

I do letters. Although this year to encourage me to do them more quickly, I have bought thank you cards. I am getting worse at doing thank you letters but will try and be better this Christmas (have only just finished thank you letters for presents for when DD was born (and she is 3 months tomorrow ))

Yes, I think it's important, especially for those relatives/friends who don't live near enough to get a thank-you in person. How else would they know if we got it?!
Ds is only 2 so I won't push it this year but maybe next year he can start drawing pictures of the gifts he's received to enclose with my notes.

We always do letters of thanks - very important IMO. Keep them short and sweet - write them yourself if you have to and get them to add their scribble on the bottom.

Yes _ I think it's rude not to. Always send thank you's for birthdays too although I don't receive that many for stuff we have given.

Maybe it's a dying art in today's frantic world!

We tend not to as ds only get things from immediate family - so this year we will be with the in-laws so will thank them at the time, and then will talk to the rest of the family on the day and will thank them on the phone. If ds got presents through the post and we didn't phone people then I would send a letter or (sin of sins) email

i did tdo them and now they do their own, and enjoy doing them.

my DB and i have had fierce arguments about it - he once said don't send a prezzie if you expect a thank you. but he does expect the present ...grrrrr!

i will do them this year with ds as he's old enough to understand now. i still write them for presents i get!

oh bugger - no, never have done, tho' always phone/see friends and say thankyou (and get DD's to to). Do send written notes after DDs birthdays.

yes - the dds did some painting yesterday and I will use those pictures as their thank yous. I have to write them though - still too little although dd1 loves to 'write'

Only actually sent to people we haven't seen, If someone has given direct we do direct thanks etc

I don't remember ever writing them when little; DH neither. But for some reason, since having DD, I find it really important. I don't do them for gifts me or Dh recieve (other than wedding), so not sure how or why it became so important to me. But have to say that everyone seems to like to get them.

We do also phone people on Christmas Day and thank people in person as and when we see them. The letters normally follow on a good couple of weeks later!

Do need to make sure I have a pen and paper handy at present opening time though as can never remember!

And there is always one gift where the tag has fallen off - trying to work out who it was from!!!

Might cheat this year and do the main part of the letter and the picture on the computer - maybe a line drawing clipart that DD could colour in, and then she can add all the names (hers and recipients). That will take her ages anyway - (she's 3.5yo, so still learning writing) as it is.

Alwasy, it is the polite thing to do. Annoys me when I don't get one - I am turning into a nagging relative of the future!

So how many of you recieve thank you letters back?

I know of one or two children I send presents too where I get a Thank You letter. Some times if I have sent a present via someone else or int he post I wouldn't even have a clue if they had recieved it

My lot insist that this is not needed and they don't really like recieving them as it's expected cos' I buy their children pressies.

I have only recieved one, once. But I am still going to sent them to people who have been nice enough to send DS something. Perhaps, not my Lot!!!

Yes, always. We had to write them as kids (often with my mum threatening us with a big stick ), and now I inflict the same on my kids! I really hate it when you go to all the bother of buying a present, wrapping it and taking it to the post office, only for the ungrateful recipient to not have the decency to say "thanks".

Phew - glad I got that off my chest!

My father bullied us into sending them, making every day from Boxing Day onwards total misery. I really don't want to inflict the same thing on the Inferiorettes.

That's sad It really shouldn't be something they are bullied into. I hoping to install into DD that ist is important and the polite thing to do. And to show her ways of making it fun as well. I guess as she gets older the computer will becoming instrumental in this, as will craft time.

Well, nagged really rather than bullied but I hated having to do it, I really did.

Yes, always although maybe not as quickly as some relatives would like!

My nan always phones mu dad (not me but my dad!) and says "oh I wonder if QE got the money/present I sent?" Meaning "why the hell hasnt she phoned immediately to thank me profusely?"