Christmas Cards

Many of mine have died so my card list is small. No probs with stamps as i only have 3 to post the rest go by hand

Hello ethelbags haven’t seen you posting for a while.
Posting by hand (Christmas cards) is a nice job, fresh air and a sense of a job well done, rather satisfying.

Lovely to see you too, ethel. How are you?

Cards written, any letters to go already written, and all stamped. First time ever, in November. Will wait till December to post them.

Right, that’s it, am going out to buy some today.

Hello ethel hope all is well with you

It's the ones that need letters that always get left until the last minute!

and for every person who is not on the list any more, for whatever reason, we seem to have added two new ones!

I still love sending and receiving Christmas cards, but I have cut down a little on those I have to post. Just a few distant people that I haven't seen for many years, for instance.
Postage is ridiculously expensive, so I hand deliver as many as I can.
I started writing my cards last night, by concidence, and it is a labour of love mostly, thinking about old friends and far away relatives.

We have a Christmas card list which we print out every year and send to those on the list. To be honest, they are mostly relations whom we haven't seen for twenty odd years and have no intention of seeing. It's just a habit now. Because we have moved, I sent out cards very early (late November) to let folks know our new address. Sadly we got a card back from the daughter of some friends who told us that both her parents have now passed away, and that her mother has had dementia for the last five years. So she wouldn't have known who we were anyway. Just so sad. Is it a complete waste of time and risking upsetting people by just sticking to a Christmas card list? I think it might be.

I stopped sending them three years ago when postage from Malta became too expensive. Instead, I send the amount I would have spent on cards and postage to a local charity.

It’s not the cards that I mind writing it’s any letters or long messages, so have almost stopped that now, in favour of wishing the person a Happy Christmas from us .
If it’s somebody close to us or we see and hear from regularly they don’t need any news, and the others may not care anyway ( I don’t enjoy anyone’s round robins either.)

It’s not the cards that I mind writing it’s any letters or long messages, so have almost stopped that now, in favour of wishing the person a Happy Christmas from us .
If it’s somebody close to us or we see and hear from regularly they don’t need any news, and the others may not care anyway ( I don’t enjoy anyone’s round robins either.)

Sorry about the duplicate!

Sorry about the duplicate!

GN gremlins strike again will this appear twice as well?!

GN gremlins strike again will this appear twice as well?!

Hi everybody, I'm ok, just been reading posts for a while, also my laptop has been sick with a nasty virus and typing on tablet or my phone is too difficult for my eyes, I do need new specs. Hope you are all well.

Lovely to see you Ethel. I did ask about you a while back. Get those new specs and come back to us!

I blame my typos on the fact that I need new specs and should have gone ages ago; why do I keep putting it off?
That and fat finger syndrome.

Forgot to say, I got my first Christmas card yesterday. Still haven`t written mine!

Hi Bella im back now never been away. X

Just haven’t seen much of you E. I expect you’re busy at work. x

Hi ethelbags I was wondering where you where. My card list is getting smaller too. Sad isn’t it I doubt people will notice Lemon I think people send less cards nowadays because of the cost of postage. My own children don’t display cards so there’s no point in sending them. They do send me and their dad one because they know I appreciate it.

They probably all do it on Facebook, morethan

No, I don’t think they will notice either morethan in fact I never notice if somebody doesn’t send one.
Bought two packs of cards a few days ago, then today found four packs, mainly unused in a cupboard drawer. I do this a lot! So I now have cards for the next two years as well, and when next Christmas comes around I will have forgotten again and bought more.