Most annoying Christmas Cards

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Anonymous wrote:I love that DCUM manages to get itself worked up over something as inconsequential as the type of Christmas cards they receive (and make themselves send out even though they hate doing so) two months out from Christmas. I would love to see you people have a real problem.

Have you heard of something called distraction? People chat about this stuff because it's funny and light. I venture to say most of us have real problems and this sort of chit chat helps us forget.

Oh and No Christmas Card for you rude poster!

Good, it would probably be one of those really annoying ones, like pictures of your newborn, or glittery!

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Send me your newborn pics. I love them. Of course, none are cuter than my first born, but I keep looking.

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I LOVE Christmas/holiday photo cards. Guess what? I'm one of thsoe that saves them. I put them in with my Xmas decorations and pull them out every year to look at them.

The Xmas cards I hate to get are just a card with the signature - that goes in the trash.

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I enjoy getting Christmas cards. The one that annoys me most comes from one of my husband's old college roommates. Everyone hates that guy's wife, and the letter they include usually has bout 4-5 paragraphs about how WONDERFUL and AMAZING wife's life is and how she basically cured cancer, travelled the world, and instituted world peace. Then it has 1-2 sentences about what her (much more successful) husband has done in the past year.

Gag.

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How many of you that dislike vanity xmas cards are overweight and or obiese? Don't answer without poting a true pic of yourself.

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Cards with three, four, five small photos instead of one big one. If I'm going to have to squint to see peoples' faces...why bother?

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Anonymous wrote:Anything with glitter on it. Even if it's glued on it comes off and makes a mess.

+1

Any card with glitter goes straight in the trash.

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Any card that isn't providing news. If we're Facebook friends, I've seen pictures of your kids. If you're a neighbor, I know what you look like. If it makes you feel good to send something that has a preprinted "Merry Christmas" and your signature, go for it. But if you stop, I won't miss it.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG I would love to get a chia pet. Seriously. We find them hilarious and it would brighten my daay..cha cha cha chia...

Well call me crazy, but I save all photo cards and love to look back at them. I look forward to seeing cute photos of my friend's kids.

Well call me crazy AND sucky too. I used to write thoughtful notes to everyone, but I drove myself nuts. Nobody else seems to do it and I still consider them friends so I only write notes to a few people. I have done the photo of the kids without us because I looked awful at the time, I hated the extra weight I couldn't seem to lose and while my husband looked great I thought people would find it strange if I put him and the kids in the card without me. I always do the cheap 4x8 photopaper card. Why spend over a dollar per card if you don't have a lot of money to spare?

I'm already looking forward to checking my mailbox and getting real mail instead of bills.

The cards I HATE are from annoying people complaining that we never see them or blah blah. Send cheer and don't nag. Hmmm guess this is why you never see us, you bring us down...

If someone sent me a chia pet reindeer for a Christmas card I would never forget them. I would look forward to it every single year.

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Anonymous wrote:Any card that isn't providing news. If we're Facebook friends, I've seen pictures of your kids. If you're a neighbor, I know what you look like. If it makes you feel good to send something that has a preprinted "Merry Christmas" and your signature, go for it. But if you stop, I won't miss it.

But if there is news, you already heard about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I really can't stand the ones that are JUST a photo - flat - not folded - sometimes not even printed on! especially if it's ONLY the child - especially if it's ONLY a newborn. Once I received one of these and DH threw away the envelope and I had no idea who it was from. But that's not the only reason I detest this kind of card- to me it just represents the most minimal effort possible. Yes, I have children. yes I work. Yes, i go to a lot of trouble to send a few, carefully planned /chosen cards. I might include a nice family photo if I have one. But it always has an inscription of some kind. It's usually from a vacation or someplace special. I value this much more than a mass mailing that equates a birth announcement. Or duplicates a birth announcement! Yikes!

So someone sent a photo of a nondescript baby, no name on the card, no indication of the family, no signature, etc.? That's hilarious. Even funnier that your DH threw out the envelope.

My cousin is loaded (and lives like it) and sends the same cheap kinkos photo paper style card every year. I have no problem with people choosing not to spend money on fancy cards, but in her case it is really incongruous with everything else. I've always found it odd.

And I have to give props to the glitter/herpes pp. hilarious.

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If I am sent a holiday card, I'm happy to receive it, and am not complaining about it negatively. What is this season about? Not about focusing on something so minute! Get lives people.

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Love Christmas cards, they just started arriving via post and are a highlight of the holidays for me. I just ordered mine and write in each and everyone, loving the memories/good times had with our friends/family members

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The super religious ones make me roll my eyes. Other than that, I like them all!

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I know this goes against the negativity of this thread, but I figure someone will disagree with me and say how annoying it is: I LOVE the photo cards where one or more of the kids are melting down or doing the opposite of what they should in a photo. My favorite was a friend with 4 kids. Her pic was all of them in their pristine white "Sunday best" in what can only be described as a meadow of wildflowers. But in the pick, the oldest was struggling to hold the baby and he was falling over and the toddler was open-mouthed hysterically crying. The middle daughter was staring at him. It was priceless.