Christmas Cards

[tinkerbellandpeterpan]

How many of you send Christmas cards and how many? I'm in my 40s and send about 30 cards each year. I have several elderly aunts/widows who enjoy the mail. And I love seeing the photo cards as we don't live close to family. I just finished writing out mine tonight. I usually do them earlier, but my mom picked them up from a fundraiser in her community for us so we saw her Friday night to take her to Elf the musical (which was fun and festive by the way).

ETA: Sorry @slo maybe I should have waited for this to be a poll!

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Early 40s here and I don’t send any, never have. We receive 2-3 every year from one of my SILs, a cousin, and a friend, although I can’t recall if the friend has still been sending them the past couple of years. Her divorce may have put an end to that.

 

[mumto3girls]

I send between 40 and 50. Mostly family, longtime friends and some neighbors.

 

[jdb in AZ]

When the kids were young we sent 50-75 photo Christmas cards each year. Now we just enjoy the grand kids' pics on Facebook.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I send two actual cards to family and a few Judith Lawson cards via email to friends overseas.

 

[OKW8297]

I stopped a couple of years ago. Very liberating.

 

[AnnaS]

Cut down big time over the years. This year is the first time I am not sending any out. We receive less and less each year.

 

[slo]

How many of you send Christmas cards and how many? I'm in my 40s and send about 30 cards each year. I have several elderly aunts/widows who enjoy the mail. And I love seeing the photo cards as we don't live close to family. I just finished writing out mine tonight. I usually do them earlier, but my mom picked them up from a fundraiser in her community for us so we saw her Friday night to take her to Elf the musical (which was fun and festive by the way).

ETA: Sorry @slo maybe I should have waited for this to be a poll!

Thanks for thinking of me and it’s all good - I love seeing people start new threads.

Normally I send between 20-30 cards

 

[WDWEPCOT]

I used to do well over 40 through the years it’s dropped I mail about six this year and then I hand-delivered about 10
Myself find it sad not sending or receiving Christmas cards - I liked receiving the cards with the letters the pictures family updates etc. As a person who doesn’t do Facebook it was always nice corresponding with family - before FB my friends & family wrote letters back & forth - especially my older relatives- they have all passed and I miss that !

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

We send cards to "older" relatives and we also send them to people who happen to send us one and we weren't expecting it. If I had to guess, probably the total is around 20.

 

[Meriweather]

I used to send 50-75, now only 10 or so

 

[princesscinderella]

I ordered 60 photo cards and it didn’t prove to be enough this year 50 were mailed and the others I use for teachers and other people I tip at the holidays. I’m going to have to get a box of generic cards for the teachers this year.

 

[snowwite]

We send cards to "older" relatives and we also send them to people who happen to send us one and we weren't expecting it. If I had to guess, probably the total is around 20.

Same. When kids were younger we sent like 70! Now it’s mostly in response to getting one.

 

[snowwite]

I send two actual cards to family and a few Judith Lawson cards via email to friends overseas.

We use MoonPig to send real cards over seas. It’s pretty reasonable. My mother in law and sister in law enjoy getting a real card. We also discovered you can change country on Amazon and have presents delivered from local Amazon uk . My credit card doesn’t have exchange fee so I simply picked items from nephews wish list and sent to them wrapped. Then switched back to USA.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

I send out about 50.

 

[Cadiewampus]

Just turned 64. Wife and I married for 34 years and have never sent out cards. Not sure why, other than maybe being lazy?

 

[bobbiwoz]

I will write mine this week. I guess around 50.

 

[snowwite]

Just turned 64. Wife and I married for 34 years and have never sent out cards. Not sure why, other than maybe being lazy?

Think of how much money you’ve saved on cards and postage!

 

[footballmouse]

I send about 35, mostly to family and about 10 of them go to friends.

 

[holden]

We did when the kids were little. We stopped around seven years ago.