Re: CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY CARDS

SunValley · ‎04-19-2010

Now that it's so easy and inexpensive to make photo cards I made one up last year and sent it to about 20 people tucked inside a Christmas card (i just love pretty cards). I added a printed note letting everyone know I was fine with room for a few handwritten lines. I also sent about 10 cards without the picture card. I can't handwrite everything anymore: after years of typing, my fingers get too sore, but I never just sign my name--always a note.

The printed "letter" is not a diary of my life or bragging about the family, just a half page at most to let folks I am happy to celebrate another holiday with them in my life. My folks always sent out those long letters with a paragraph on everyone. Ugh...I would read them and wonder what family they were talking about; it certainly wasn't mine. When I got to middle school age I demanded editing rights on my paragraph! It went from my parent's portrait of my talent as a featured clarinet player in orchestra to the realistic year of musical torture that couldn't end soon enough.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

I love Christmas cards, and they are a big deal to me. I am a very conservative spender on almost everything except groceries and Christmas cards. Right now, I have at least 1,000 Christmas cards on hand, because I cannot resist buying the designs I like. I too insist on handwritten cards and notes; no printed newsletters for me.

I receive almost as many cards as I send; many cards are sent to older friends in nursing homes, or friends with health issues who are unable to send cards, but love to receive mail. My list shrinks as people die off, and this year I will take a family member off the list due to no contact with anyone in my family for 5 years.

I have already started addressing my cards for this year!

just bee · ‎03-10-2010

@RedTop wrote:
I love Christmas cards, and they are a big deal to me. I am a very conservative spender on almost everything except groceries and Christmas cards. Right now, I have at least 1,000 Christmas cards on hand, because I cannot resist buying the designs I like. I too insist on handwritten cards and notes; no printed newsletters for me.

I receive almost as many cards as I send; many cards are sent to older friends in nursing homes, or friends with health issues who are unable to send cards, but love to receive mail. My list shrinks as people die off, and this year I will take a family member off the list due to no contact with anyone in my family for 5 years.

I have already started addressing my cards for this year!

This is wonderful! Why? Because I started collecting cards in the 70s and, after college, I spent a few years working for a stationery chain. Every Christmas I stocked boxes of marked-down cards. I still have quite a few "vintage" cards and I like to send a different design to each person on my list. Some may think it odd to send a thirty-year-old card, but I think it's odd that anyone would be offended by being remembered with a card during the holidays.

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Daisy Sunflower · ‎10-26-2010

As I get older, the list dwindles...for various reasons.

I'll probably send out a handful from the leftover cards from last year...just to use them up.

I also send out free e-cards...quick and easy.

Jacie · ‎01-09-2011

I send cards in part to celebrate the season, but I love getting them too! I would like to say that I do not, however, enjoy those braggish Christmas letters!

My list varies from year to year, sometimes I go all out and sometimes the list is shorter, but I love lighting a fire, writing fun wishes and making it part of my Christmas tradition.

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maestra · ‎03-09-2010

A big trend is to send cards out w/family photos, kid and pets.

We send only to close friends and immediate family.

Puzzle Piece · ‎06-29-2010

Seems like it's just not done at all today. We get very few as many folks don't do tradition like the past.

Businesses still send out their cards. I'm afraid that it's a thing of the past. I hear things like the cost of the stamps, the time to pen, the cost of a pretty card, etc. being reasons to just let that tradition go to the wayside.

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sunshine45 · ‎03-09-2010

i have stopped sending out christmas cards (personal and business). we do receive about 30 something cards each year. i prefer to now phone people during the holidays.....i find it to be even more personable when you can hear the persons voice on the other end of the phone. i try to make most of my phone calls between christmas and the first week of the new year.

i do use christmas cards to attach to gifts and/or use them for gift cards. i have already received so many holiday cards from charitable organizations, so i really dont need to buy any.

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chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

I'm not much of a holiday person. I purchase TWO cards - one to send to my father and one to give to my husband. This, mostly out of a sense of duty.

There was a time when I sent out cards, but not in some sense of 'have to send them to everybody I've known since the beginning of time'. I sent them to people with whom I was otherwise in contact.

Moonchilde · ‎05-23-2010

@Daisy wrote:
As I get older, the list dwindles...for various reasons.

I'll probably send out a handful from the leftover cards from last year...just to use them up.

I also send out free e-cards...quick and easy.

@Daisy Sunflower, when e-cards became very popular, all of my friends and some family jumped on that bandwagon and mostly stopped sending physical cards, and from that point on, when they stopped those they just mostly stopped altogether. It's disheartening 😟

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