What do you think about sending and getting Christmas cards? I am firmly in the Hate them camp. I gave up the practice years ago because I found that I was the one doing all of the work...my DH just refused to help. Now that I have children, I just do not want to take the time.
I started thinking about this today when I got a Christmas card from a high school friend that I have not talked to all year long. Seriously, the only thing written in it was "Merry Christmas" signed by her and her husband. Gee...was it really worth it to send and not really write any type of personal message in the card? I would have much preferred her to send me a PM over Facebook.
Do you think that people do cards because they want to or because they feel like they have to?
I like them and I give them credit for the organization it takes to get them mailed out. They are thinking of you when they address them and send it to you..
They are pricey too.. Then the stamps and mailing them in a timely manner! yikes.. I used to do them and sorry, I only wrote Merry Christmas! I did not have time to write a person note to every person.. But now that I work all Christmas I am using the online cards.
This year on FB I have been sending the Jacquie Lawson cards. I even sent out her online Advent Calendar and people are loving them..
Any act of kindness to me is touching.. but I guess I am a lot older than all of you. I have experienced enough hard feelings..
I think some people want to and others feel like they have to. My family didn't do them growing up, just because of the sheer volume we would have had to send out. My dad is a preacher and if he sent a card to one family in the congregation, he'd have to send to all of them. One year, we got over 100 cards. It was crazy. I have carried on the tradition of not doing them. Although I do feel a little awkward at work when people on my team will give them out. Luckily this year there has only been one person, so I don't have much guilt.
Well I hate boxed cards...but I love picking out Hallmark cards or say...individual cards. I hate the big long bragging copied letters included in Christmas cards about everyones accomplishments or what foreign country they have visited etc.Boring. So if you do it....stop it...trust me...people only make fun of them. So yes is my answer....I like sending cards and using Christmas stamps and putting Christmas stickers on the envelopes. I like the funny cards and the cards you can record your voice on...or the cards that play music when you open them. I like putting brand new $2 bills in the cards for the little ones. Yes yes yes....I like it!
Whats with all you Christmas card haters!?!?! I LOVE them! I tape them to my door so I can look at that all the time. Im even going to take a picture of them I love them so much.
My eyes lite up like a little kid when I see one in the mail box.
I'm not a big fan of cards in general ($8???) but I love christmas ones. Oh so rarely do I have either the time or money to do them. Every year it seems to be one or the other!!!
What I do instead is send just a few to the people I know who love them the best. 1 set of grandparents, 1 great grandmother, 2 uncles, 1 friend. The friend is overseas... so in the past I've sent eCards, and then hand deliver the rest.
If you're familiar with 5 love languages... ALL of those on the above list are 'words of affirmation' + 'giving or recieving gifts' type people.
I'm neither... I'm just artsy, and like the themes.
I love them! I enjoy sending them (picking them out, writing on them, writing the address on them, mailing them, the whole process), and I get so excited every day when I check the mail between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We send a bunch of cards, and we get a ton, too. Our whole familly loves Christmas cards. :)
Sending Christmas or Holiday or New Year's cards, are because:
The person wants to send it and likes to
The person feels obligated
It is tradition
It is what is expected
It is to keep up with the Jones's
It is to update loved ones on their family/kids etc.
It is a form of communication and indirect way of letting a person know that they remember you or that you 'count' because you are on their mail list
Or whatever.
But basically, in the end or sometime, the card is thrown away.
Or recycled.
And yes, I think some people really do want to do cards and love to.
Others do not care.
I have both kinds of very dear friends. Whatever floats their boat.
Personally, if I had the extra money, I would do photo family cards.
But only to close family and friends. Not the entire lists of people I have encountered in my life since birth.
I just love them, and I love sending them. It's the one time of year that I think about all my friends and loved ones. I sit down with a big mug of hot cocoa, some Christmas music, and a stack of photo cards (kids only) and stamps! I try to write notes on them too.
We've always sent them to our family and friends but to be honest before I had children I didn't really get too excited over sending or receiving Christmas cards - it was just something we did. But now I absolutely love them - sending and receiving - especially photo cards and even the annual brag letters =)
I love them and I love sending them. We do the one's with a family pic or pic of the kids, this keeps people we love up do date on our families growth. I really love to get the pic one's as well, I paper my fridge with them :D My kids love them as well and we enjoy putting them up, deciding where to tape them etc :D We didn't do our family card this year bc our baby is oh so young and just getting dinner on the table with three kids when one is a newborn has been beyond challenging! So hopefully I will be back on my game next year and skinnier so I won't mind people seeing my mug ;)
I like sending them and receiving them. I totally personalize them though. I put a picture with a nice saying and then a Christmas family update type letter. I don't ever just send a card and sign my name. It's not personal enough.
I send out Christmas cards because I actually enjoy doing it. I get the photo cards that you slip a picture into and have used pics of the kids each year with them doing something Christmasy or some kind of winter fun. I like figuring out what picture I am going to use and what card design to use. Sometimes I've done a letter but not usually. For me it's just fun and I admit, I kinda get off on it. Even when there are family members that we never send cards to us, I still send a card to them. I do know that at least one SIL actually has saved every card sent because of the pictures of the kids. Growing up, my mom always did cards and I liked helping to address them, and we always got a ton back, so it's something from childhood that has kind of carried over into adulthood. To each their own!
I'm never organized enough to send them -- haven't in years. But I love LOVE getting them. I save the ones with pictures; it's fun to look back & see how kids have grown & people have changed.
I like them. Even the ones with just Merry Christmas and a signature. I really appreciate the fact that someone cares enough about little ol' me to take the time to send one.
I absolutely love them. Some people are not into social networks so Christmas may be the only time we communicate. On the other hand, I do not like just a Christmas card relationship. So I do not send them to people who don't otherwise give you the time of day.
I actually started sending them out for my family as soon as I could write. I noticed we were getting them and neither my mom or day sent any, so I did it.