Graduation announcements - rant

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Anonymous wrote:You guys are such grinches.

You think they’re bad now, just wait until these hags find out the student is going to school in a RED STATE!! The horror!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You guys are such grinches.

You think they’re bad now, just wait until these hags find out the student is going to school in a RED STATE!! The horror!!!!

Huh? I’m a democrat and see grad announcements as gift grabs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You guys are such grinches.

You think they’re bad now, just wait until these hags find out the student is going to school in a RED STATE!! The horror!!!!

Wtf does that have to do with anything?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. I so want to send out a card celebrating my kid with an update on where she is going to everyone on my holiday card list. We do not want gifts at all - honestly hadn’t thought of that at all. But it sounds like people may look at it as a gift grab? I don’t like using social media to share about my kid so there are people who she knows that would be glad to know where she ended up.

Doesn’t everyone on the list know she’s graduating already? And those who don’t know where she’s going can find out with your annual Xmas card. Anyone you feel wants to know where she’s going asap…should be someone you’re close enough that you have already shared or can send a quick message.

Not all of us use the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child as an opportunity to brag. Some of us send warm greetings of the season and well-wishes for a Happy New Year with no insertion of our “big news.”

That's the only place I write anything about our family. No social media, no special announcements, just a couple sentence update on each kid on the back of our holiday card, which in this "look at me" phase of human history seems quite benign.

Why do you need to brag AT ALL? So tacky to do it in a holiday card.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. I so want to send out a card celebrating my kid with an update on where she is going to everyone on my holiday card list. We do not want gifts at all - honestly hadn’t thought of that at all. But it sounds like people may look at it as a gift grab? I don’t like using social media to share about my kid so there are people who she knows that would be glad to know where she ended up.

Doesn’t everyone on the list know she’s graduating already? And those who don’t know where she’s going can find out with your annual Xmas card. Anyone you feel wants to know where she’s going asap…should be someone you’re close enough that you have already shared or can send a quick message.

Not all of us use the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child as an opportunity to brag. Some of us send warm greetings of the season and well-wishes for a Happy New Year with no insertion of our “big news.”

That's the only place I write anything about our family. No social media, no special announcements, just a couple sentence update on each kid on the back of our holiday card, which in this "look at me" phase of human history seems quite benign.

Why do you need to brag AT ALL? So tacky to do it in a holiday card.

Is saying your kid is x years old and plays little league bragging? I’m not a fan of graduation announcements and even I don’t consider them bragging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This makes me sad. I so want to send out a card celebrating my kid with an update on where she is going to everyone on my holiday card list. We do not want gifts at all - honestly hadn’t thought of that at all. But it sounds like people may look at it as a gift grab? I don’t like using social media to share about my kid so there are people who she knows that would be glad to know where she ended up.

It 100% looks like a gift grab. You don’t need to share with the world. People who are close to you know. Does your kid even want a blast mailing?

I get it. My teen has issues. DH and I will have a massive celebration together if and when graduation happens. I won’t be sending out cards to random cousins we haven’t seen in 10 years. When I get those, I send a small check since I feel obligated. I don’t send anything if they aren’t family.

[Anonymous]

It was standard to send grad announcements to everyone back in my day. Even neighbors in my blue collar neighborhood gave me gifts and I didn't send them announcements. It was an important rite of passage and far fewer kids went on to college. I'm astounded by the people who are offended.

Sent them for my kids and was disappointed at the relatives who had kids I sent grad gifts who ignored them. It was nice though that several extended relatives didn't ignore and attended the online graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:Hate to break it to you but people HATE the yearly letter and never read them. Stop sending them.

Disagree. We love them in my family! Every night in December we sit on the couch under blankets with mugs of tea or cocoa and open the Advent calendar with the story and read that, then open the Advent calendar with chocolate and eat that (or opposite order), and then if any cards came in the mail, we read those. My kids definitely "know" their West Coast and overseas cousins who include those letters better than those that don't send them. It gives them something to talk about on phone calls, too.

Wow. That sure is special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was standard to send grad announcements to everyone back in my day. Even neighbors in my blue collar neighborhood gave me gifts and I didn't send them announcements. It was an important rite of passage and far fewer kids went on to college. I'm astounded by the people who are offended.

Sent them for my kids and was disappointed at the relatives who had kids I sent grad gifts who ignored them. It was nice though that several extended relatives didn't ignore and attended the online graduation.

+2.

People are offended at everything, these days, not to mention selfish. So I guess I'm not surprised. I plan to send announcements/invites when it is our child and those who are offended are free to ignore and be offended. These are the same people who get their panties in a bunch over holiday cards, which I find hilarious. So this doesn't bother me, either.