Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 19:37     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My weird hang up is when the photo is from the beach. I get you were all looking tanned and pretty, but it isn’t Christmas-y. So now your card isn’t a holiday greeting as much as it’s a gratuitous glamor shot.


I do the cards with 8-10 photos and I do a quick summary on the back of the kids ages and interests and what DH and I are up to. If someone hates me for this, I don't really care because I guess they weren't my friend to begin with.


You’re not a friend if you are sending people junk mail that serves no purpose but to show off your Family Ad.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 19:21     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We send Christmas cards, yes. Old-school card and hat we actually hand-sign and in envelopes we hand-address and stamp. It’s crazy to me that this is no longer the norm.

Photo cards are basically a carefully curated “promotion for your family” and are not about Christmas nor kind wishes for the recipients at all. Just narcissism like everything else these days.


What an ungracious way to think of someone who bothered to put you on their list and purchase a card for you.


Why do you act like this is some huge favor to which we now owe you a moral obligation? The sender sends it for THEMSELVES, not the recipients! how people think about the card is immaterial. The cards are for you, not us.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 17:51     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
No. Money and Time saved. People seem to complain a great deal over something that soon ends up in the trash or splattered with miscellaneous food stuff hanging on the fridge.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 16:04     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
DH and I mailed our first Xmas card when we moved into our first home 21 years ago. The tradition has endured. The cards went from a simple pic of our new home, to adding a child a few years later, to adding another child a few year after that, to moving to a new house, to adding a pet recently. We enjoy the family photo sessions in October. It is always a bit chaotic but loads of fun. We just finished stuffing the envelopes for this year’s batch.

There are many people in our lives who we think about often but for one reason or another, don’t get to catch up often enough. So we send cards to those we think of. I don’t really care what they do with the card. But I have often heard that collecting our cards has become a tradition in some households.

We still get a bunch from our friends but the # definitely has shrunk.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 15:42     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We send Christmas cards, yes. Old-school card and hat we actually hand-sign and in envelopes we hand-address and stamp. It’s crazy to me that this is no longer the norm.

Photo cards are basically a carefully curated “promotion for your family” and are not about Christmas nor kind wishes for the recipients at all. Just narcissism like everything else these days.


What an ungracious way to think of someone who bothered to put you on their list and purchase a card for you.


Agree

I really appreciate all who bother to send us cards - especially as mine are always late.

I am there for the happy news and any other news people choose to share and I love seeing how families cha ge and grow.

We keep all the cards in plastic seal lock bags with the years written on them - I do plan on looking at them More carefully when our youngest goes to college …

Viva la holiday card tradition - in whatever style family and friends choose to send them …

🎄🎊🔔🕎 ⭐️
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 15:31     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:We send Christmas cards, yes. Old-school card and hat we actually hand-sign and in envelopes we hand-address and stamp. It’s crazy to me that this is no longer the norm.

Photo cards are basically a carefully curated “promotion for your family” and are not about Christmas nor kind wishes for the recipients at all. Just narcissism like everything else these days.


What an ungracious way to think of someone who bothered to put you on their list and purchase a card for you.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 15:29     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The only thing I dislike are when people send the yearly letter to everyone. If I get these I don't even read them. They're supposed to make the card more personal but it has the opposite effect--either write something specific to each person or leave it alone. And the letters are always too long and cringeworthy.


I love the letters! Especially when they’re funny.


Why don’t you want to celebrate your friends’ successes with them? I love getting the updates! Esp bc I’m not on social media.

NP but the letters I get are not funny. Or they may have a small funny part to cushion the previous line like ‘John got a promotion at work this year’. It’s truly unnecessary.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 15:25     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
We almost always send cards out, but not this year. The truth is, it’s a hassle and most of our peers have dropped sending them, so we’re leaning that way too. I did enjoy the tradition though!
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 15:16     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:We can’t afford it this year. Everything is just more expensive now. Sad.


Walgreens is having 50% off cards currently. You can order them for less than $30.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 15:15     Subject: Re:Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
We send them but we’ve majorly cut back on who we send them to. We sent out 19 this year, and strictly to only close family and friends we actually talk to throughout the year. We used to send out 50+ and it was annoying.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 14:45     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:My weird hang up is when the photo is from the beach. I get you were all looking tanned and pretty, but it isn’t Christmas-y. So now your card isn’t a holiday greeting as much as it’s a gratuitous glamor shot.


I do the cards with 8-10 photos and I do a quick summary on the back of the kids ages and interests and what DH and I are up to. If someone hates me for this, I don't really care because I guess they weren't my friend to begin with.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 14:32     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
We send Christmas cards, yes. Old-school card and hat we actually hand-sign and in envelopes we hand-address and stamp. It’s crazy to me that this is no longer the norm.

Photo cards are basically a carefully curated “promotion for your family” and are not about Christmas nor kind wishes for the recipients at all. Just narcissism like everything else these days.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 13:43     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
We can’t afford it this year. Everything is just more expensive now. Sad.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 13:38     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No. Years ago I realized how stressful the holidays had become because of all these types of tasks. I removed everything nonessential to my family enjoying the holiday and it got much better.

Truth be told, I don’t even look at the ones I get. They’re about as interesting as junk mail to me.


Yikes, I would hate if someone actually viewed my family’s Christmas card as interesting as “junk mail.” 😟


Np, and I used to stand over the trashcan as I opened them to make it more convenient to toss in once I was done reading it. I've gotten more sensitive over the years and leave them on the counter until the holidays are over before trashing them-- final destination is always the trash, though
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2023 12:57     Subject: Do you send out holiday/new year cards?
I love giving and receiving holidays cards! Scrooges of DCUM be d@mned.