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I really dislike Xmas cards with tons of pictures
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Anonymous
I agree, though I am always secretly jealous because I wish I had the time it must take to put those cards together! |
Anonymous
| I really like when people think of me and send me a card with any number of pictures. |
Anonymous
| Wow OP, you're a freaking jerk. I suggest you tell the people who sent you the offending cards exactly what you think, and I can guarantee you won't get any next year. Would that make you happy? |
Anonymous
Hear, hear! |
Anonymous
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I totally agree with OP. And I'll take it one step further; I hate Christmas photos period.
You only end up throwing them in the trash anyway. |
Anonymous
| When I think about the total time it takes me to send out Christmas cards, I am very thankful when I receive one from someone else. |
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Anonymous
| I'm sure this is one of my friends complaining about my iPhoto card with more than a dozen pics, inside and out. My kids are so cute that they're worth that many pictures! |
Anonymous
I love putting multiple picts of my kids. It is so fun to try to capture the year in picts. I imagine it is more fun for me and my fam than any one else. I am sure the picture placement and combos are not artistic gems, but I do like sending well wishes to my friends and fam this way. If they think its tacky, they only need to look at the too many picts for 2 secs and then toss-a-roo down the loo. Having said that, I doubt any of my friends and family would do that (at least not until after Christmas.  ). Happy holidays!
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Anonymous
| I'm with OP. I like the cards with a max of 3 photos far better than the cards with more than that. Too many photos dilutes the impact for me -- they're just too busy. I also like to hang up the photo cards we get and those with just a single photo stand out so much more. |
Anonymous
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You really made a huge and erroneous assumption as to why people make cards with multiple pictures.
If that is really your reaction to Christmas cards from your own friends and their children, they are very unlucky to know you and I wish you would tell them how you feel. You are clearly wasting their time, and not just in sending you the card. They deserve to be free of you. |
zumbamama
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| OP, are you by chance a graphic designer or art director? Your point sounds like something I would tell one of my clients about their ad or book cover. I know what you are talking about with regard to using photography well on a page, but you really can't expect Roger Black or Ina Saltz out of the average family Christmas card sender. |
Anonymous
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In our case, we were forced to used separate pics for each child this year because none of the group photos turned out well enough. Getting all three kids to look at the camera and smile at the same time is like waiting for stars to allign.
Merry Christmas! |
Anonymous
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LOL! I hope this isn't posted by someone who received my card this year! Mine had eight pictures of my daughter on a pretty big card. A lot of my friends haven't seen her all year (or ever, in person) so I wanted to show how she'd changed over the year. (She's 14 months old and has changed a lot since last Xmas.)
If people don't like it, I don't really care. They can throw it away. I like multiple pics, though, when sent by other people - I like seeing their kids in different poses, moods, etc. |
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OP is just a sad soul wanting to complain about something just to make sure everyone is not TOO happy. this world is awful, after all. thanks for reminding us OP that even photo cards can be all wrong. you've done your civic duty for the day.
now all the rest of the 99% of the world can go on enjoying our photo cards and snickering at your grumpiness. |