Christmas Cards

[MamaMermaid]

I'm early/mid 30s. We sent photo cards of our son to about 30 people.

 

[Babs Johnson]

We no longer send any cards in the mail, but send about a dozen e-greetings.

 

[mjkacmom]

I think I send about 120? One of my daughter’s is in charge of making it this year, but she wants a photo of our dog in a college jersey outside, so I’m waiting until tomorrow when it stops raining. Always the 5 kids (now adults) in the photo.

 

[tvguy]

66 here. Still send about a dozen, still have to order them for this year. We normally get about a dozen. We have received two so far this year. We get cards made with a family photo on it. If you had told me 30 years ago that we would still be BUYING greeting cards I would have told you you were crazy. We had the Hallmark card making software on our computer and made all our greeting cards back then.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm 53, and send around 80 cards.

I enjoy receiving them and do hang them up. We used to do photo ones when DS was little, but now I just use regular greeting cards.

I'm a little behind this year and still have quite a few to go! I'm hoping to finish by tomorrow. (Every year I say I'm going to address the envelopes in July, but I never do. )

 

[TiggerTrigger]

We're in our early 50s and we no longer send cards. I'd say we stopped about 7-8 years ago. As it is, we weren't sending very many (less than 20). Most we know are now sharing some form of digital holiday greeting on social media. I think a number of people are also frustrated with the number of cards that get intercepted by thieves looking for cash and gift cards in holiday mail.

 

[fla4fun]

I don’t send any in the mail. I do attach cards to gifts for people outside my immediate family.

My dad was always the one to send out the family Christmas cards. I can still see him sitting at the dining table writing a personal note in each one. When he passed away, the idea of sending out cards made me sad, so I didn’t keep up the tradition.

 

[_19disnA]

We send Christmas cards to close family/friends/neighbors but never really counted the exact number. I can recall several years ago looking at the large basket of Christmas cards my parents had received when visiting them at Christmas and asked who all of these people were. I had no idea who most of them were. Many were friends of relatives/neighbors, distance friends or people they no longer associated with. Even if a relative, I don't see the point of sending a Christmas card to someone you haven't seen or even spoken with in over 5 years. Apparently some people use FB to blast out greetings to all of their 'friends'. I know some friends of friends on FB who seem to take every opportunity to brag about all of the expensive vacations they have taken and show lots of pictures. Just seems really tacky to me................LOL.

Those 'here's what we have done as a family in the last year' type of letters used to be fun to read when someone had younger children and perhaps we saw them a few times each year. If you never see those people, then I am not sure what they did in the last year would matter to you. If you HAVE seen them a lot, then clearly you would already know most of what they did.

 

[mmbrad02]

Mid 40's here. Grew up in a home that sent lots of cards every year and received lots - I always enjoyed going through them and especially enjoyed the ones that had letters too.

So when I got married and we started our own family, I naturally continued cards. But sadly I feel like its becoming a lost art and we started receiving less and less, so (maybe not the kind thing but...) a couple of years ago I started sending less. I made a list of what we sent, and then that year I highlighted who we received them from.

The following year, I sent to the ones with highlights, along with any elderly/non social media friends and family. That is the list I've continued to work from since.

I used to order 60 cards, then 40.. this year I ordered 25 but then I had to order a few more (it was cheapest to order 12 more but I truly only needed 4-5 more). So I would say we will send about 30 cards this year. We always do a photo card and this year I ordered them from Sams Club.

So far I've received 2 cards - one from my dad's cousin and one from our investment group that we have money with....

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I send around 80, too. I have to get going on them this year, lol.

Last year we were away and I didn’t send any at all. It was nice.

I should really just think about doing an e-card. Some of the people I send to, though, aren’t online.

Tired just thinking about it.

 

[disney4us2002]

I'm newly retired and moved to a new state so I'm sending Christmas cards to former coworkers and people I want to keep in touch with back in Maryland. Also, I will be sending postcards to many new neighbors/friends where we are now living. This is a very social neighborhood and I'm happy to be a part of this community. Altogether, I probably send about 40.

 

[soccerdad72]

We usually send 50 or so. It might be a New Year's card this year, as my wife wants a couple pics of the four of us and we haven't had a chance to get many this year so far. She does Shutterfly and puts together a photo card each year.

 

[Chirple]

I am a "late" boomer. I am married and have no children or pets. I used to send a lot of cards or drop cards on co-workers' desks. We are both home-shored for many years so I mail cards to a few former co-workers.

Before the pandemic, I had cut our list drastically. In 2020 I thought people could use a friendly piece of personal mail so I went back to mailing a lot of cards. This year it will end up between 55-60. I mailed the first batch on 12/1.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I no longer send out cards, and we get hardly any in the mail. The tradition is dying off in my family and friends group.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

How many of you send Christmas cards and how many?

We send about 20-25 cards each year. The number has been dwindling in recent years. When we were first married we were sending close to 60-75 cards.

 

[Kestryl]

I'm in my 30s. This year my list is at 64, which includes family and friends (49), as well as a few card exchanges with an internet community (15).

I make my own cards- and I mean this in I design and cut (with Cricut) and tape pieces together. It's kind of an "excuse" or reminder to reach out to people I don't see too often.

I don't necessarily expect a card in return, but I am starting to get frustrated when someone doesn't mention they got a card from me. A cousin of mine moved several years ago- we see them once or twice a year, and only learned recently about their move years ago. Where did those cards go? Felt like a waste.

 

[antmaril]

I am in my early 70’s. I used to send about 50 cards, but now send half that. I‘ve only received one card so far this year, but I should receive a few this week. Mostly photo cards.

 

[MGMmjl]

I'm 39. We printed about 80 cards this year. We had a get together with some family over the weekend and handed out some of them then. Our church has where you take Christmas cards to the welcome center and they distribute them to church members, so we took some there too. We actually mailed out about 10-20 cards this year (not sure of the exact number.)

 

[Ellie008]

I used to send about 50 each year. Then I cut the list to people who sent them to me plus a few relatives who were not on social media and I wanted to still send pics. It had dwindled to about 20. Then last year I just never got around to it. I wasn't sure if I was going to this year or not, but I did. I sent them to the people who sent me one last year. 15. I do enjoy getting them, so I figure it is worth the effort for me to send them so the people who send them to me don't decide to cut me off! I imagine they must enjoy receiving them the same as I do.

 

[lovin'fl]

I am 50 and always send cards. Though I used to send like 45 of them and now we're down to like 20. When my kids were kids I liked doing photo cards and like to get those. Otherwise it's a dying tradition and I'd be all too happy to burry it. Cards are expensive and terrible/stupid (who creates them now??? They suck!!!). It's also time consuming and this time of year is the busiest for me. Rather skip it but I'd feel guilty if I were to scrap them. And many folks on my card list don't send them. I check off if they do send and keep track and after a couple years of not getting them, I pull them off my list. There are close family members who never send and I can't pull them off my list...can't send to 1 sister-in-law and not the other...you know. This year was really hard to find the time to do them but I did. So maybe it'll be the last.

ANd I just aw on my neighborhood FB group where a neighbor donated $100 to the wounded warriors foundation in lieu of sending cards and posted on the FB page that's what they did and said Merry Xmas to everyone in the post. Good idea.