Holiday

[candys mine]

For those who have a lot of cards left over.  SWAP with a friend and use those to send to NON-Mutual friends and relations.

[lynnie61]

I still send about 75-80.  Family, friends, retired co workers.  I enjoy it.  I still get many in return.  I try to start Thanksgiving weekend.  I like to mail by Dec 8-10.  Although, I know this year, 4 or 5 from my list have passed away.  

I'm really going to have the little online shopping I do done early.  I just had two orders (not QVC) take 16 and 19 days.  

[SoCal Bred]

I still send Christmas cards and enjoy receiving them too, and as most have posted, each year it has become less and less, I usually like to write in cursive a little note in each and it has also become a challenge with my arthritic fingers.  I usually mail out my cards the 1st or 2nd week of Dec.

[Zoe]

We send about 35-50 cards each year, down from well over 100 at one time. There is just something about receiving a card with a handwritten note and signature in it that feels timeless (and thoughtful). Although the numbers may continue to decrease, it's not a tradition that we will give up.

We take the non-photo cards we receive and make gift tags or new greeting cards out of them.

[RedTop]

Yes I still send Christmas cards and intend to until I am no longer mentally capable, or I have no one left to send them to.  

Christmas cards are a big deal; the most time consuming activity of the holiday for me.  I have a huge weakness for Christmas cards, and probably won't live long enough to send what cards are in this house right now.  The cards have to be just right, the black ink pens have to be just right, holiday return address labels, stamps, and stickers ready to go.  I go thru at least 2-3 brand new ink pens just for the cards and handwritten notes.  

My list has many older people who do not have computers or cell phones and do everything the old fashioned way.  If I receive a card from them, it is one they've received from a group seeking a donation, not a card they've purchased.  

[katie1859]

I use to send a handful to people who were special to me....but last year I threw in the towel and said no more. It's more than just .60 cent stamps, but I see more and more people don't want to connect. So my circle has grown small and locally, for those that I hold dear I will bring them a bake item. A neighbor whose 95, a community member, a clerk at a store who is always kind....and so it goes.
I have such great memories as a kid opening cards but life has changed and so have people.

[Group 5 minus 1]

On a more sentimental note: a dear aunt of mine always mailed her cards on the day after TG. Her husband always had to work on TG (second shift) and after he went to work she did the cards and mailed them the next day. All of us (friends and family) looked forward to those being the first received. I try to carry on that tradition w/ the few we mail.

[Group 5 minus 1]

And we always send to those friends of ours in the Netherlands.

[Venezia]

I still mail cards to our friends in England and here.  However, I only send a few now to family, since most have stopped sending them.  What's the point, if we never see them from one year to the next?

[wilma]

We still mail cards all year long for Christmas, birthdays, sympathy, get well, thinking of you, and other occasions & events. My mother raised me to do it, and right now I see no reason to stop. I think it's nice to give & get greetings in the mail.