Another peeve thread about Christmas Cards

[PrincessKsMom]

UPDATE:

Next year, everyone's sending snapppyd a HOME-MADE, personally-signed Christmas card......

You are gonna be in SOOOOO much trouble.

 

[js]

Not at all.. If people are so busy that they can't take the time to personalize a card for a relative or close friend, don't bother to send the card at all.. Might as well be from your insurance agent..

This is EXACTLY how I feel...the part where you say..."don't bother to send the card at all..."
I DO send the cards that just have Love, The xxx Family and our names.
Not even personalization on top as..Dear xxx:
I put them in my computer and they just printing out our information that I typed on the bottom of my card. The ONLY reason I do this is that my dh wants to send Christmas cards.
For me, I think it is silly. If I want to talk to you and keep in touch with you, I certainly don't need to do it once a year at the mandatory sending Christmas card time. Getting cards from people I don't even talk to all year with their year in summary story just is so silly. Why don't they just call or even better, if I wanted to know, I would call you.
So, that is why I send the generic Christmas Card. I really don't want to but I just sent only because dh asks that I send. He doesn't seem to care what is inside of them so that is good enough for me.

 

[js]

Oh man, you guys are TOUGH!

I gave up sending cards out years ago. I was honestly rethinking this for this year, but then saw this thread and decided to forget it for another year. No, I'm not kidding!

I'm hoping I can finally convince my dh and do the same as you next year.
It is just silly.

 

[kimmar067]

You are gonna be in SOOOOO much trouble.

...moi??

 

[snapppyd]

...moi??

Nah, I love ya too much~

The thing is, it wasn't a pre-printed card! She actually wrote "Love the L family" in ink! Come on! You put a pen in your hand and couldn't use our/your first names?!?!? Your immediate family"?!!! Sorry, but I stand by my post!

 

[ksjayhawks]

Nah, I love ya too much~

The thing is, it wasn't a pre-printed card! She actually wrote "Love the L family" in ink! Come on! You put a pen in your hand and couldn't use our/your first names?!?!? Your immediate family"?!!! Sorry, but I stand by my post!

My guess is that she signed all the cards first, then put them in envelopes and addressed and stamped them. It would have been an assembly line rather than write one card, put in envelope, address and stamp. The assembly line goes much faster.

 

[snapppyd]

My guess is that she signed all the cards first, then put them in envelopes and addressed and stamped them. It would have been an assembly line rather than write one card, put in envelope, address and stamp. The assembly line goes much faster.

Which brings us back to the original point, there was no thought or feeling involved.

 

[kimmar067]

Which brings us back to the original point, there was no thought or feeling involved.

...you.
need.
a.
hug....

 

[kimmar067]

...She actually wrote "Love the L family" in ink!!...

...could have been worse - their last names could have been 'Fitzgerald', or 'Franklin', or 'Fotopoulous', or 'Fontaineau', or 'Firienzi', or.....

 

[SCHBR'smom]

...you.
need.
a.
hug....

Hey, hey, hey, I want in on the hugging. There, now isn't that better.

 

[snapppyd]

Hey, hey, hey, I want in on the hugging. There, now isn't that better.

Much better!!!




(but really, I was just posting a little vent, didn't expect so many people to take my family vent so personally)

 

[Pakey]

I just want you all to know that I'm already working on my homemade card for Snappy next year.

I am not about to let kimmar outdo me.

 

[kimmar067]

I just want you all to know that I'm already working on my homemade card for Snappy next year.

I am not about to let kimmar outdo me.

... spoil-sport...poor Pakey's just another victim of 'Tag-Envy'....or 'Post-Envy'.....

 

[wdwfan16]

So I guess you expect each person in the family to sign their own names, individually? Otherwise only the person who wrote the card would be "thinking of you", right? Like if I signed all our family's names, the thought would only be from me?
If your brother's wife wrote the brother's name and her name, you would probably complain about that?

(I actually have an elderly aunt and uncle who sign their individual names-they are the only ones I have seen do that for Christmas cards.)

We do this as well. It started the first year we were married. I signed both of our names, sealed the cards and asked DH to drop them in the mail. He was upset that he did not get to sign his name. The next time I did the cards I ended at "and" and then handed him the stack and a pen. He signed his name to all the cards and has ever since. Don't tell him but once in a while I sigh his name when I want to get the card out. Now our DD signs her name, well sort of. DS just pukes on them and out they go.

 

[snapppyd]

We do this as well. It started the first year we were married. I signed both of our names, sealed the cards and asked DH to drop them in the mail. He was upset that he did not get to sign his name. The next time I did the cards I ended at "and" and then handed him the stack and a pen. He signed his name to all the cards and has ever since. Don't tell him but once in a while I sigh his name when I want to get the card out. Now our DD signs her name, well sort of. DS just pukes on them and out they go.

See, you give them a personal touch!

 

[kimmar067]

See, you give them a personal touch!

...yeah, but he's 19!

 

[snapppyd]

To Allison 443: no, I do not expect each person to sign their own name.

Also, I never said they were preprinted cards.

It was a handwritten card, to me and my DH, from his brother and his family, hand signed "Love the L________ family". Sorry, but I would never send a card to one of my sisters and their family and sign it "love, the L Family".

That is all.

 

[kimmar067]

... Sorry, but I would never send a card to one of my sisters and their family and sign it "love, the L Family"....

...well, THAT would be silly, since your last name begins with the letter "R".....[....Ms. Reed.....]


































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[snapppyd]

...well, THAT would be silly, since your last name begins with the letter "R".....[....Ms. Reed.....]






(I was just looking at my Christmas cards; I received approximately 45 cards. EVERY one said "Dear Donna and John", and were signed "Love, (insert names of family that sent card here)". Some had personal messages. The only ones that didn't were the pre-printed cards, of which I received about six. For the record, I understand you can't write on the pre-printed cards.