Christmas Cards

Posted my first batch of cards today, second class. Will post the rest by Friday 4th December. Must admit I won't be sending as many this year as last year. Unfortunately on an economy drive, the price of stamps are outrageous. Not that I'm being tight, but there are a few people I haven't seen for years, and I think they send to me only because I send to them. The way I look at it is I'm doing them a favour, and letting them off the hook. Am I wrong?

I made a big mistake one year of asking for staff list at work. Just to get the spellings right on a few names. But me and my big heart started to feel sorry for staff I was leaving out. I ended up writing nearly hundred. Talk about daft. Narrowed right down now. Lol! Merry Christmas All!

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Just been to the PO to buy the stamps can't believe it cost more for the stamps than the cards this year... and I've cut down and will deliver some by hand, it really is such a waste of money I think I'd rather donate the money to a good charity I may well do that next year I think.

Got out the box containing cards, wrap, ribbon etc today, and found that I had about 70 cards there, so no need to buy any more this year.Yes, the postage,even 2nd class is expensive, but Christmas is only once a year after all.

Giving the money to charity won't help anyone that would have liked a Christmas card through the post.We send cheques to two charities at Christmas, Barnardos and Salvation Army , but would still send cards as well.

I had donation request from Salvation Army today and in it was a Christmas card which they ask you to sign and send with the donation so that they can give the card to a homeless/ needy person. I will be doing that.
Talking of postage, I paid £10 to send a 1.4 kilo parcel to Scotland on Saturday.

Have pruned my Christmas card list this year and sending to 30 close family and friends. Always send to those who are on there own and to whom a card is very much appreciated. Posting second class on 8th December.

Glad you said that roses. I have a friend who gives to charity instead of sending cards. She still has cards sent to her though and happily displays them. She is denying her would be recipients the pleasure of a card while not going without them herself. And she chooses the charity that her would-be recipients are donating to! Far better IMHO to tell friends not to send you a card but to put the cost of the card and stamp in a charity box. If they then decide to join in and not receive cards, then that is fine.

I've bought a book of 6 second-class stamps from time to time throughout the year and tucked them away with the left-over cards from last Christmas. Although this means I don't have the bonny Christmas stamps, it does lessen the load. Also, I decided a year or two ago that if I only heard from people once a year via a Christmas card that only said something like 'Happy Christmas from Bob and Betty' or whoever, that didn't constitute a friendship and I crossed them off my list, unless there were special circumstances.

I don't know what a Jacqui Lawson card is!!

grannylyn65 here is the Jacqui Lawson site

Thank you Indiana ?

We send cards only to people we won't see at Christmas, it's daft to give cards to those you live with.
Most young people simply don't do cards so I think they're dying out. I send fewer each year.

TyneAngel, could you, instead of buying the stamps through the year, put the money for them in a jam jar and then go and buy the Christmas ones when they come out? Just an idea. I agree with you about cutting out the no-message people. I used to exchange letters in the cards with some old friends. It has gradually dwindled to notes written in the cards, but it's still interesting to get that much news.

I've posted 3 of mine!!! They were both in (non-Christmas) parcels, but I was organised enough to get the cards written to go with them! Now I'll be feeling so pleased with myself that I'll forget to get on with writing the rest...

The scouts here deliver local cards for 30p each. A poster is placed in a Building Society in the High Street which gives details of each collection point, how much is charged and when the cards will be delivered. A box is in place for the cards, a piggy bank on top for the cash, under the eye of the cashiers at the counter. When I take the cards down on Twelfth Night they go out for recycling.