How much work is it to tell your wife to send them?

We do New Years cards. Photos of the kids.

I think I’m done this year.

I’m one who only sends to my closest family and friends. I bought 12 cards from Walgreens, a sheet of address labels (we don’t mail much so I don’t keep them around, but like my holiday cards to look nice”, and stamps. I spent $16. I just don’t think the cards I receive in return are worth time or the 3 coffees, etc, that I could buy with that $16. Bah Humbug, I guess.

I send a photo card! I send to ~40 far-flung relatives and longtime friends only. For what it is worth, I do not use social media or post photos of our family online, nor do we have any sort of broader family/friend group chat for pics.

Nope. We used to but it was another stressful item to deal with every year. DH always wants to do them but that means he sends me a few crappy photos and I do everything else so I stopped a few years ago. Plus Costco doesn’t have a photo center anymore and that’s where I used to order them—quick and inexpensive.

I am late 30s and love sending and getting cards, with pics or without, but I love the pics. I don’t save them as some people do but I love displaying them and seeing the pics of my friends and family makes me happy. I’ve been surprised at getting cards from my kids classmates when I don’t know the parents but I send a card back and it’s a nice opening if I run into them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there a tradition that is replacing the photo holiday card?

Just send a regular card with a note. No need for a picture.

Ugh- no thanks. If you can't be bothered with a picture, please don't send. You could have just texted.

I only send Christmas cards

I moved my family's timing to Valentine's Day to cut this task out of holiday stress.

This is my first year not sending a card. We received many less last year than usual so I dropped the stress and expense from my to do list.
We’ve only received one card so far this year. I think this trend is on the decline.

I stopped sending them a few years ago. Now I just create an online card to post to FB and I email it to a few relatives. It's such a relief to not spend so much time on addressing and mailing cards. Cheaper too.

We also receive fewer cards these days. The trend of mailing cards seems to be dying off.

Anonymous wrote:Is there a tradition that is replacing the photo holiday card?

Just send a regular card with a note. No need for a picture.

Anonymous wrote:This is the first holiday season in 19 years that we are not sending out photo cards. I have such mixed emotions! On one hand, it is like this major deadline has been lifted and it really is so freeing, never mind the cost that we are not spending (had been sending out a lot of cards). But then as holiday greetings start coming in, I do feel a little pang ...

Next year you will receive even fewer cards. A lot of people exit their lists based on who still sends cards.

I’m addressing cards this weekend and mailing them on Monday.

My plan is to send holiday cards until I die.

I started sending only to those who sent the year prior. It’s now the same <10 people every year. This is great because Shutterfly often has a “10 cards free” deal so I get them for $6 shipping. Done.

I love receiving them and still send them, though fewer ever year. I try to write a little note on each.