[Closed] First world rant - Named christmas cards

There you go, ineffectual, middle class bitching.

Not to mention pointless.

consumerism for you, why make a single card when you can ensure the customer has to buy a dozen and can't just grab a card if they have forgotten someone.

why send cards, or presents.

In fact leave your family now

Why celebrate and indulge when you could just sit at home alone in bed crying whilst you w@nk into a sock.

I agree whole-heartedly with the OP

I don't understand the whole card sending obsession as a whole, regardless of the 'occasion' ... for most people it's just a (bad?) habit or perceived as being expected of them ... for many it's become some kind of weird competition where they have to send cards to people who've sent them one otherwise they'll be massively offended or somesuch nonsense

It's laughable.

Card manufactureres are the only winners.

The maddest thing is seeing all 30 children in my son's class giving the whole class a card each. 30 x 29 cards. That's 870 cards between them. Bonkers. Of course, it's the parents fault. Can't risk all the other parents being offended if you don't give their precious little porcelain darling a card. It's a popularity contest mostly.

😀

You're missing the point.

wife buys cards, writes cards, sends cards.

Your input in the process Zero - what you got to worry about.

If you're that excited about who get what cards you could always offer to sort next years cards out and you don't want that now do you.

for the record I also dislike named cards but I dislike the idea of having to write and send cards even more so i let Mrs XC pick, write and send the cards whilst i spend quaility time riding my bike.

"So this one is from me?" I ask.
"No, we've been married for a long time, it's from both of us."
"But it says 'Mum'"

what name would you right if you hand wrote it?

" dear mum / mother in law,
merry xmas,
from samurai & mrs samurai respectively"

wife buys cards, writes cards, sends cards.

+1.

The maddest thing is seeing all 30 children in my son's class giving the whole class a card each. 30 x 29 cards. That's 870 cards between them. Bonkers.

We're doing a thing this year where instead of sending every man and his dog a xmas card, we're emailing them to say we're not giving cards this year and have donated the money to charity instead, with a link to the justgiving page.

Average donation is about £25 and it's raised a small fortune already.

As has already been mentioned, the only people who benefit are the card companies. This way we save time/waste and give the money to someone more needed than Hallmark.

🙂

In saying that, close friends and family still get a nice card, it's the pointless sending of cards to anyone remotely connected with us that we're avoiding.

As above... Let them, the better halves, get on with it.

It keeps them quiet, stops them nagging and they are happy in thier little xmas world.

Sit back, relax, eat a mince pie and take in the lovely looking tree they decorated last weekend. The extra expense of a few personal xmas cards is a very cheap price to pay

What Peterfile said. We've been doing this at work for 2 years now. People seemed to like the idea. We used to send 100's of cards, but a mass email is a lot less hassle. Money saved on cards goes to Unicef.

We're doing a thing this year where instead of sending every man and his dog an xmas card, we're emailing them to say we're not giving cards this year and have donated the money to charity instead,

This. We've done it for a few years now, initially a few were a bit 'Oh!' about it but when you factor in postage (even 2nd class) for 70-odd cards that's a £50 donation direct into a charity (plus gift aid) so I can manage a few 'Oh!s' on that score.

with a link to the justgiving page.

not sure I can justify asking people to donate for the pleasure of NOT getting a card from me - but then again.......

We still do a few cards for the neighbours and the girls at school but we made our own there which was a fun afternoon being creative with stamping blocks and glitter, so worth the effort.

[i]My wife has bought a load of christmas cards.[/i]

I'd say you'd won already.

I'll sign anything as long as I don;t have to buy it, write the rest of it or do the envelope.

Generally where my wife is concerned I adopt the 'She's right, I'm wrong and I'm sorry approach'. It can cause problems when I'm asked why I'm sorry but I can usually bluff it out.

The maddest thing is seeing all 30 children in my son's class giving the whole class a card each. 30 x 29 cards. That's 870 cards between them. Bonkers. Of course, it's the parents fault. Can't risk all the other parents being offended if you don't give their precious little porcelain darling a card. It's a popularity contest mostly.

not sure I can justify asking people to donate for the pleasure of NOT getting a card from me - but then again.......

Sorry, I meant that we send the link in case they want to do the same

My Mother in Law didn't think a card was a card unless it had the title of the recipient printed on it. I used to think that she would be happy if she found one to "My Darling Daughter and that bloke she married"

Clearly the problem occurred when she asked me to get involved. I wholeheartedly agree that asking me to sign one or more of the cards was where the process failed, so she was in the wrong. I'm not telling her though.

I wholeheartedly agree that asking me to sign one or more of the cards was where the process failed,

Some years ago, I was left a very large bundle of cards which had been signed "Mrs Petefile and "

I was supposed to sign them, but after much whinging, I did actually forget.

They were later put in envelopes, the addresses painstakingly written out, stamps attached and sent out. Everyone got a card with a big gap where my name should have been.

So we don't do xmas cards any more....... 🙂

This post represents the despondency that has dragged STW to the depths it now resides in. This is total and utter twaddle.

So we don't do xmas cards any more.......

So your plan worked?

I gave up on cards years ago. I'll get one for my partner and my mum, everyone else can whistle and knows not to send me any. Utterly pointless.

Never mind all that,don't get me started on round robin xmas letters .

Arrrrgggghhh 😡

So what's the problem here whether first-world, middle-class or otherwise...

What shape are robins supposed to be, then?

Sent a christmas card to a mate once..

To Barry,

.....

From Vincent

couple of days later received the same card back

From [s]To[/s] Barry

....

To [s]From[/s] Vincent

I send a card to my parents. That's it.

What shape are robins supposed to be, then?

Just the right size ,and hand written 😉 🙂

Christmas cards have only two (semi)useful purposes; something to stick a gift voucher in if you've not made any effort on the present side, something for kids to make as presents as they can't buy anything someone might actually want...

No names, no problem

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Whats a round robin christmas letter ?

[i]This post represents the despondency that has dragged STW to the depths it now resides in. This is total and utter twaddle. [/i]

As opposed to complaining about someone else's tattoo? That's an activity which to me is bizarre beyond belief.

HTH.

samuri - Member

As opposed to complaining about someone else's tattoo? That's an activity which to me is bizarre beyond belief.

HTH.

With you on that

Is it a baby round robin?