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[Moonchilde]

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@Puzzle Piece wrote:

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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This has been my experience, with my friends/family who used to send cards. A few do, but not many. I think a lot of those under 40 will just never do it.

[Moonchilde]

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@chickenbutt wrote:

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.

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This would be me, as well.

[VAbelle]

I am a baby-boomer.

When stamp prices rallied around 50 cents, I told people to stop sending ... they didn't.  So I continue the tradition .... about 60 cards, with a few notes enclosed to those far away.

[Daisy Sunflower]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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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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For some people, it's a depressing time of year for them and they don't really care about all that stuff anymore...for whatever reason. 

[GCR18]

I love sending Christmas cards.  My list has changed over the years.  I'll send around 15 this year.

[Moonchilde]

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@VAbelle wrote:

I am a baby-boomer.

When stamp prices rallied around 50 cents, I told people to stop sending ... they didn't.  So I continue the tradition .... about 60 cards, with a few notes enclosed to those far away.

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Wow, @VAbelle, good for you! That gets expensive 😟 but if you enjoy it, that's what counts.

[Moonchilde]

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@Daisy wrote:

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@Moonchilde wrote:

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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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For some people, it's a depressing time of year for them and they don't really care about all that stuff anymore...for whatever reason. 

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Very true. It was true for me for quite a few years, and that only recently changed, so I "get it."

[Noel7]

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@chrystaltree wrote:

I don't send many cards out at all, I liked sending cards but after a while the number of cards I received in return dwindled and I saw no point in sending cards to people who didn't reciprocate..  Now I mail out about 15 cards a year to friends and family who live far away and who I rarely see.  I usually include a short note and so do they. but NOT one of those awful Christmas Letter things!  Brag letters my used to call them.  I also attach a Christmas card to the presents I give.  Life changes, customs change and with email and FB and social media stuff; Christmas cards are falling out of favor.  

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@chrystaltree

OMG yes!

We know someone who does the brag letter every year, and every year I'm stunned because we know them well and the reality is very different.

I guess it's just sad that she has to cover up like that but I am never comfortable with a pack of outright lies.

[ROMARY]

I place a variety (depending on their religion and special days such as Chinese New Year, etc.) of holiday cards on neighbors' porches.  Usually neighbors of different faiths, holidays, etc. will give or send me cards reflecting my preferences, not theirs.  Nice people around here, more or less. 

[Noel7]

I used to handwrite 60+ holiday cards and I grew to dread it.  DH was the head of an agency and they all exchanged cards. it was part of the job.  DH did most of his, but it was a crunch-time part of the year so I pitched in also.  Then our friends at church and people I worked with, not to mention family and other assorted friends.

I never got printed cards and I always included personal notes.

Time passes, you don't keep in touch with everyone you once knew, and boy am I glad of that.  Now my list is so much shorter and is all about people we care about and love.  Almost half are Christmas cards and almost half are Chanukah cards.  A few are winter cards.