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?

I both write and receive thank yous - I actually enjoy doing them (I like writing Xmas cards too though - am weirdy stationery fetisher though, so enjoy the whole thing of having the blank cards/pad, nice pen, address book and stamps ).

Always had to write them when I was little (took AGES!) but the worst bit about that was that I also had to say thank you from my little brother (2.5 years younger) who would be bombing round playing with the new toys while I laboured over them - gah!

I write letters from dd - 6 months - for all her presents. So far this was for her birth, christening and now Xmas presents.

I always, always write thank you notes for any present dd gets, but I can count on two hands the number I've received from other people... and those are all from the same family who always thank us for presents for their dd and ds.
I handed some out about a week after dd's birthday party and got lots of "oh I always write mine and forget to give them out" (wtf? why bother then?) and "oh I never remember who gave him/her what" (duh, write it down).
Why can't everyone be as organised as me?!

chunkerxmascake - I too will put my hand up to being a stationery junkie - love, love, love pens and new paper and crisp envelopes and cards and stickers and stamps and everything

BibiJesus, you are among many fellow stationery addicts on MN No need to

I must confess to being a stationery addict - love new paper, new books, pens, pencils, folders, new address books and pencil cases especially the ones with little compartments to put little things like rubbers and pencil sharpeners in - WHS is my fetish shop!

ooooh, new books - and folders! WMS is heaven! Paperchase is double heaven!

Generally not as the giver is usually there when DSs open their gifts. Absent givers will get a note.

This year I will take a photo of the kids sitting by the tree, put some "Thank you" wording in and get them to sign them. I can't stand them lingering for weeks after the event, get 'em posted and done.

I always text my friends if they send presents to say "parcel arrived, thanks to follow"! so they know they got here.

I LOVE stationery and pens too and I've bred a DD with the same traits - luvly!

Similar to soupy except absent givers get a phone call.

I don't send thank you letters to every one, although i do try. My old aunts always call on Christmas day, so the Ds's always say thank you inperson, which pleases the oldies no end. We don't visit people on Christmas day, but one or other set of grandparents usally visits, and the other sets call, so again, they are thanked then.
One year a friend of mine got her D to make individual green handprints on pieces of paper. My friend then added a wee stalk,so it looked like a fir tree, and wrote Thank You at the top, and he daughters name at the bottom. She did these over a few days before Christmas. Daughter thought it was great fun getting to do hand prints!

Yes for absent givers for all birhtday & christmas presents.

I still get told off by my Mum when I don't write them quickly enough, whether for me or DS.

My sister and I used to pre write them in advance so that you could just slot in name of gift. It kept my mum off my back!
Children love getting letters and cards - I wish we still used letter writing more. I hate having to teach kids how to write a letter when I know full well the first one they ever receive will be from the court...
Are emails an ok way for you to say thankyou???

I used to write them for my three brothers aswell and charge them per letter!

I think it's only polite to write a thank you note if the giver isn't there when you receive it.

My mum is anally obsessed with thank you letters!!

yes we did when little and I do now for dd
We seem to get a lot throught the post, how else would they know we had received them?

my brother refused to send thankyou letters as a kid, and now his children don't either. i find it frustrating when you send them something nice in the post and don't hear a dickie bird I don't even know if it gets there wondered about stopping sending presents, but not sure if fair. I always send thankyou cards and will teach ds to as well, tho i can see myself doing it for him for a while.

I buy thank you cards, and sign them myself from the girls, then dd1 will scrawl with crayon as her signarture, dd2 is kept away as she is destructive and will rip them.

I think it is very rude not to send them tbh and my mum and dad like anything in the post with Grandad and Grandma on the envelope, it's as if they are impressing the postman!

i hate doing it

it is a massive chore

but I do make myself

tbh I prefer a phone call from a friend to tell me how fab the present was rather than a rather forced thank you letter where you just KNOW that they have millions to write...

I never had to do it when I was a child, and I don't make my own children do it either. However, I do make sure they thank the sender by telephone. I can't see any problem with appropriate use of modern technology. Unfortunately, DH's relatives disagree... We've had some really dreadful thank-you letters from his nephew over the years, along the lines of "Thank you for the book. My mum says it is far too grown up for me and has put it in the cupboard until I am older".

I don't really see the point of sending a thankyou note to someone we've already said thankyou to. And most of our more distant friends are happy with email. So we only send notes to people we can't see or phone or email - and there aren't many of those!

I do have an aunt who sends the most dreadful presents to every Christmas - I've been determinedly not thanking her for years, in the hope that she'll stop sending the presents, but it hasn't worked yet.

an email or phone call would do certainly.

if you open the present in front of them and say thank you then there is certainly no need for a thank you letter (thank the lord)

oh no, I don't bother sending them to people who we see, just relatives that I don't want to phone and speak to .

We send them, but only to the folks we've not seen to thank in person. We make a card on the computer with a generic Christmas type piccie on the front (our offspring in front of the tree or eating wrapping paper - you know the sort of thing) and then I write inside, and this year dd (2.5) will 'sign' her name (won't force ds to until he can hold a pen). It seems important to take the time to say thank you, and we try to make it a 'fun' activity.

lol hallgerda