I prefer updated pictures without a personalized letter. What makes you so damn special that you need a personalized letter addressed to you. Get off your high horse.

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped sending cards last year. I'm so sick of photo cards ( and I have cute kids who can pose for cards too) but they are so overdone. Won't send cards this year and don't care about getting them... Labels computer generated and no personal message.. Might as well be junk mail. I talk to and see the people I want to keep in touch with.

Yep. Straight to the trash.

+1 I wonder if people would still send their photo cards if they actually saw their face in a friend's trash can.

Despair not, people who send cards as described above. I would prefer for them to be more personalized, but at least I do not trash them. I look at them (and/or read them) and display them until the holiday season is over. I certainly do no throw them in the trash.

I trash them.

I do not trash them.

My mom used to have me write our Christmas letter/card. I stopped the year that my brother and I had a very fortunate year and there was no way to write about it without coming off as humblebrag.

Now, DH and I send a photo card of our family (DH, DS, and me) with a personal note on the back to each person.

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped sending cards last year. I'm so sick of photo cards ( and I have cute kids who can pose for cards too) but they are so overdone. Won't send cards this year and don't care about getting them... Labels computer generated and no personal message.. Might as well be junk mail. I talk to and see the people I want to keep in touch with.

Yep. Straight to the trash.

+1 I wonder if people would still send their photo cards if they actually saw their face in a friend's trash can.

Despair not, people who send cards as described above. I would prefer for them to be more personalized, but at least I do not trash them. I look at them (and/or read them) and display them until the holiday season is over. I certainly do no throw them in the trash.

I trash them.

I like seeing the photos of people's kids, but hate the unnecessary letter describing every thing that the family did that year. Just put a nice photo on the card and sign it from your family!

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped sending cards last year. I'm so sick of photo cards ( and I have cute kids who can pose for cards too) but they are so overdone. Won't send cards this year and don't care about getting them... Labels computer generated and no personal message.. Might as well be junk mail. I talk to and see the people I want to keep in touch with.

Yep. Straight to the trash.

+1 I wonder if people would still send their photo cards if they actually saw their face in a friend's trash can.

Despair not, people who send cards as described above. I would prefer for them to be more personalized, but at least I do not trash them. I look at them (and/or read them) and display them until the holiday season is over. I certainly do no throw them in the trash.

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped sending cards last year. I'm so sick of photo cards ( and I have cute kids who can pose for cards too) but they are so overdone. Won't send cards this year and don't care about getting them... Labels computer generated and no personal message.. Might as well be junk mail. I talk to and see the people I want to keep in touch with.

Yep. Straight to the trash.

+1 I wonder if people would still send their photo cards if they actually saw their face in a friend's trash can.

I love letters and cards. This thread is a downer.

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Anonymous wrote:Only one of our friends does a letter, and it's not braggy, but it is so unbelievably boring. The wife of the couple is super sweet, and I like them a lot, but she just has no idea how to write engagingly. It is just a (very long, 2 pages single space) sequential recap of their year.

In January we did this. In February we went here and did this...In September larla started 2nd grade. In October we did this..

But I always read it and I'd still rather get the letter than get nothing. I love mail.

If they live in Stafford, I know the same couple!!!!

Nope--totally different part of the country. But I think it's probably a common problem. (In all honesty, I doubt I could do any better--I just don't bother so no one knows!)

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped sending cards last year. I'm so sick of photo cards ( and I have cute kids who can pose for cards too) but they are so overdone. Won't send cards this year and don't care about getting them... Labels computer generated and no personal message.. Might as well be junk mail. I talk to and see the people I want to keep in touch with.

I don't quite see the point in sending these if they don't contain a message much less a signature. We received one last year - photo - from Smiths and dog - but no return address and no last name. I had no idea who the sender was. Into the circular file.

We got one last year with just a (blurry) picture of a kid. No first OR last names and mailed by a service so the postmark didn't even help narrow it down. We did eventually figure it out and we're pretty sure they were stoned when they ordered their cards.

That is hilarious! B/c they typically do get stoned or bc this card could only have been sent by someone who is stoned? (?)

Both!

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Anonymous wrote:I especially enjoy personalized cards emblazoned with

Merry Christmas from The Smith's!

or, worse, Smith's/Smith's/Smith's printed in an artful pattern.

Is it the lack of heartfelt wishes you dislike? Or is it the improper use of an apostrophe?

Ugh, the apostrophe kills me.

Anonymous wrote:I LOVE Christmas letters. Dh and I always read them aloud and giggle but we are horribly cynical people.

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Anonymous wrote:Only one of our friends does a letter, and it's not braggy, but it is so unbelievably boring. The wife of the couple is super sweet, and I like them a lot, but she just has no idea how to write engagingly. It is just a (very long, 2 pages single space) sequential recap of their year.

In January we did this. In February we went here and did this...In September larla started 2nd grade. In October we did this..

But I always read it and I'd still rather get the letter than get nothing. I love mail.

If they live in Stafford, I know the same couple!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped sending cards last year. I'm so sick of photo cards ( and I have cute kids who can pose for cards too) but they are so overdone. Won't send cards this year and don't care about getting them... Labels computer generated and no personal message.. Might as well be junk mail. I talk to and see the people I want to keep in touch with.

I don't quite see the point in sending these if they don't contain a message much less a signature. We received one last year - photo - from Smiths and dog - but no return address and no last name. I had no idea who the sender was. Into the circular file.

We got one last year with just a (blurry) picture of a kid. No first OR last names and mailed by a service so the postmark didn't even help narrow it down. We did eventually figure it out and we're pretty sure they were stoned when they ordered their cards.

That is hilarious! B/c they typically do get stoned or bc this card could only have been sent by someone who is stoned? (?)

We got our first card last night (they are the first every year) and it's from my FIL's cousin. She thinks she is so closely related to us that she blathers on about all these people and places we have NO clue about. Like, "We are so happy Jimmy doesn't have to drive allll the way to Townsville and instead, got a job right in Cityton." I am like, "WHO the F is Jimmy and what/where are Townsville AND Cityiton?????" It is not even my side of the family and I have to diagram everybody out to DH b/c he doesn't even know who these people are.