Dec 1- QotD- Do you send out Christmas cards?

[NeverendingJen]

Oh yeah wow, that's hardcore, LOL! Using Facebook is smart though. I've actually thought about sending change of address cards before but usually I forget in the stress of the move and then it seems silly to send them like a year later, haha. That's really cool though!

Last year we got several of them in christmas cards when people had moved in the spring, it happens every year. I've still got a few addresses to track down for this year.

 

[Stacey42]

I inadvertently gave it up in 2007. I do a digital photo card & email it to everyone on Christmas day instead. I suck at putting things in the mail. Always have. Christmas cards were often mailed on the 27th of December. Or on Halloween, depending on how I was feeling. In 2007 I addressed a bunch of cards but never bought the stamps. I found them again in 2009 when I was looking for old cards for a JYC layout. Half the people had moved in the 2 years so I never mailed them. I consciously chose not to send them in 2008 & have never looked back.

 

[gracelikerain]

I usually send around 30. I like designing a photo card and some stationary so I enjoy doing it. If it was a real chore, I wouldn't do it.

 

[HeatherKS]

I love doing Christmas cards. My mom always did it and I love receiving cards in the mail too! We do family, close friends, and dh's coworkers also. That said, I haven't even started on ours this year . . .

 

[taracotta7]

I send 25-50 usually. Some years I include a letter updating everyone on the events of the year for our family. Not every year though.

 

[kscwgirl]

I send them.. and on the top of the inside I print a Highlights of the year. I send around 30 out and I love getting them in the mail.

 

[clearskies]

I LOVE Christmas cards. It's one of my favorite parts of December. (I took last year's down when the movers showed up to pack our house in August...) This year I'll probably send around 90...

 

[Jengerbread88]

I hesitate to call mine a card- I'm sending out a photo I took of Zach with the Christmas lights, with maybe a little note with it. Facebook keeps everyone up to date with the big things, so a newsletter isn't necessary this year. I'm not putting these pics on facebook yet, though, so it's a surprise.

I'm only sending it to my siblings in Germany and Brazil, and my grandfather, since we don't see him often. Otherwise, no cards- everyone is either close enough to get a personal holiday greeting, or isn't really "important" enough to warrant sending a card to. That sounds bad. Lol.

 

[rach3975]

I think I'm going to send some, but probably only 20 or so. Growing up, neither my family nor DH's did holiday cards. After we had kids we started sending a photo card because we were getting some and felt the need to reciprocate. We send to both our extended families (most of whom don't do cards) and a few friends. The biggest reason we still send cards is to keep in touch (at least marginally) with some of the friends and relatives that we only hear from once or twice a year. The few years we haven't sent some of those relatives let us know how much they missed getting that photo in the mail.

 

[Sharon Kay]

For years I stamped cards or hand scrapped ... and rarely, if ever, did they actually ever get sent out ... even back in 2009 when the 3 boys finally got their pics taken together and got great pics that were Christmas card type ... still didn't make it out the door. I wish I could ... it just doesn't happen.

 

[cardinalskate]

I'm horrible about sending cards. I always have the best intentions, but, it doesn't always happen.

 

[LeeAndra]

Yes, I love to make them, and there are many (old) people in both our families who we don't get to see often and are not on Facebook/email, so this will be the only firsthand information and good photo they receive of the kids all year.

My MIL keeps it on her fridge all year long. :thumbup: