Christmas Cards

[ukaviator]

Well it's nearly here already, Christmas. If any of you are suffering hardship, there is a cheaper way to send cards to family and friends.

 

See here:

 

Happy Christmas Card | Merry Xmas Cards - Tesco Value

[Thailand]

They look a bit pricey, UK.

[Bookworm]

Or do what I do: NOTHING!

 

I don't send cards, I don't give cards and I don't expect any in return either. It's a lot eco-friendlier for starters, eases the financial pressure on those who can least afford it and who cares about the syrupy insincere wishes from people who don't give a toss about you the rest of the year anyway?

 

Here's a simple test: You need £10 to get the essentials to see you through until payday. How many of the people on your xmas card list would you feel comfortable enough to ask AND knowing they would say yes without hesitation as long as they could do it? Any of those where the answer is "not this one", you shouldn't bother with anyway.

 

Christmas cards? Bah-humbug, if you'll forgive the expression.

[blueskies]

I have always been terrible with Christmas cards. Every year it starts with good intentions and then I end up asking the question 'When is the last posting date for Christmas? It must be soon' only to be told that it was the day before. Opps

 

I don't expect Christmas cards from anyone, for a lot of people (and unfortunately moreso this year) putting food on the table and clothing the kids comes first, and rightly so.

 

Christmas cards? Bah-humbug, if you'll forgive the expression.

Bookie is sounding more and more like Crusher

[Mr lex]

I feel a [problem] coming on !!!

 

Print a load off (using the office printer and paper) Take them back to Tesco's for a refund !!

[Lula]

Have to agree with Bookie here, I havnt sent em for years and I dont want any back either, the only people that make money are the card printers and the post office

 

Double Dalek Bah Humbug

[gizmo111]

We stopped sending cards to each other at work a few years ago and instead have a collection (what we would have spent on cards) and give it to a worthwhile cause.

 

This years is ActionAid: Gifts in Action - Equip a classroom

[hilaryfrances]

oh for goodness sake, slaps head in disbelief, we send cards to peeps who we forget about the rest of the year just so they dont forget about us! And then they send one back. Unless you are sending one to someone you do care about then you send one to them to let them know you care and then they send you one back. Simple EH?

[Bookworm]

But HF, if they forget about us the rest of the year and we forget about them for the rest of the year, why on Earth would you want to be mutually reminded of one another at Christmas anyway? :-? Much better to keep on forgetting one another and keeping the quality time for those we do care about, and those, one would hope, we do care about them all the time and don't need a sparkly robin or an unrealistic snow landscape to remind them of that?

 

My very bestest friend in the whole wide world is a suave Frenchman called Jacques (yes, Lula, that one! ) and I have never sent him a card in the last 20+ years we have known one another. Nor has he sent me one. (the swine! no, it's ok, really. ). But there's not a day where he isn't in my thoughts, even if we only speak once in the traditional blue moon, and he's always there for me and I for him. No card being sent or not will change that.

[hilaryfrances]

yes bookie, I was having a joke! DOH slaps head again, OUch

[Janet-M]

I love cards usually but I really hate xmas cards as they are so insincere .My friends all know I don't like them so stopped sending them to me BUT my kids love the cards .. sending and recieving them so now I have messed up as they wanna know where the cards are .. I now have had to put their cards up and their lil faces light up so now I have had to totally confuse my friends by sending them ( so the kids can post them ) and telling them I now like recieving them grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

Or do what I do: NOTHING!

now why don't that suprise me

[Thailand]

Have to agree with Bookie here, I havnt sent em for years and I dont want any back either, the only people that make money are the card printers and the post office

 

Double Dalek Bah Humbug

 

Don't forget Clintons and their ilk!

[Bookworm]

yes bookie, I was having a joke! DOH slaps head again, OUch

Sorry, knowing how all xmassy and jolly you get, I thought you might have been serious.

[Lula]

Don't forget Clintons and their ilk!

 

 

I was never a fan of Bill and Hilary !:-|

[SOD'EM]

I always look forward to the Postman bringing my Birthday cards on my Birthday, just like everyone else. Unfortunately, my Birthday is Christmas day and the little swines get the day off so that wish will never happen.

 

Cards that I normally get brought to me say Happy Christmas as well and end up in the bin within a week. So to all you that think cards are a waste of space and money, add me to your list.

 

To all you who think otherwise, then go enjoy your happy lives and waste your money. I am not a Humbuggy type person but just this once it's a large............

 

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

 

from me:-x:-x:-x:-x

[lateralus]

i want to stop sending them but don't know what to do for best - especially neighbours - now that really is insincere crap - don't speak most of the year except a quick "hiya" and then we all exchange cards at xmas.... i'm as guilty as the rest - so if i call them - i'm calling myself. i'm betting they would like to stop as well - what do you think of sending the last xmas card this year with a note that from this point on i will make a donation to a charitable cause instead of sending xmas cards.... too, too or what do you think.

 

 

and sod em - i've already made a note to myself to log on on xmas day to send you an ecard greeting.

[SOD'EM]

and sod em - i've already made a note to myself to log on on xmas day to send you an ecard greeting.

 

 

:oops:Have I already mentioned (5000 times) it's my birthday on Christmas Day?

[Bookworm]

Well, honey, I already thought you were God, so you can be his Son as well, that's how it's supposed to work anyway, isn't it? ;-)

[Gilbert_O'Sullivan]

Or do what I do: NOTHING!

 

I don't send cards, I don't give cards and I don't expect any in return either. It's a lot eco-friendlier for starters, eases the financial pressure on those who can least afford it and who cares about the syrupy insincere wishes from people who don't give a toss about you the rest of the year anyway?

 

You sound like a bundle of laughs.:-?

[Bookworm]

And?

[SOD'EM]

And?

 

 

PMSL Bookie:p

[tiglet]

No cash = no Christmas cards

 

That's my stand on it.

[Gilbert_O'Sullivan]

And?

 

Well, it's not the festive spirit is it?

 

You don't really know if people you only hear from at Xmas time don't care for you do you?

[Bookworm]

Since I don't care either way, that's ok by me too.

[Gilbert_O'Sullivan]

Since I don't care either way, that's ok by me too.

 

I'm horrified, you should care.

 

Jesus won't have you as a sunbeam.