When do you send out your Christmas cards?

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

I was going to order some special ones this year, but at this point I dont see that happening. So I am going looking for cards this weekend at some point.

 

[kodiakchicken]

Mine usually go out around Easter. I'm trying to get done earlier this year - shooting for Valentine's Day.

 

[English Chick]

I will be posting mine this week, here in the UK

 

[Buff Hooligans]

English Chick, we'll all be waiting by our mailboxes when your cards arrive!

My DH and I will be sending out cards whenever we can get warm enough to hold a pen in our cold little hands!

 

[AllChookUp]

I usually send them out every other year. Either I get too busy, or forget, or just don't want to.

But then I get cards from others, and realize how nice it is to get them, and I rush to get them sent out in time.

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[MissPrissy]

We send out 150 - 200 cards every year and very few people return the favor.

Isn't there a rule that if you get a card you should return a card??? Has Christmas card etiquette bit the dust?

This year we are sending out 0 cards. I wonder if anyone will notice.

 

[annmarie]

I've sent them out as early as the weekend after Thanksgiving (because people always pay the most attention to the first card they get!) or as late as the 19th, whenever I get around to it. Here's a question I have...
How do you decide who to send cards to? Do you just keep a perennial list of people that you send to year after year, or do you base it on who you receive cards from the previous year, or do you go a certain distance on the family tree, or what is your "policy"?
This drives me crazy, as I have a huge family scattered around the country and world, some card senders, some not, some I'm fairly close to, some I'm not, some I rarely see, some I never see and won't be surprised if I never see again for the rest of my life since they live on the other side of the globe and I've never really known them.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Well I for one will be highly offended to be crossed off your card list!


(I've often wanted to skip doing cards, and maybe that's a good idea, with stamps being 42 cents now.)

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

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I wondered about that for years...until my Grandmother's funeral when the family was finally assembled for the first time in 20 years. I was getting introduced to my cousin's kids that I had never seen and one of her boys said, "Wow, the one that sent me a Christmas card!" It's about the potential joy you are sending someone else and you really don't know how it will be received but it doesn't take much to buy a few boxes really cheap after Christmass and put them away with your decorations for the next year and throw a stamp on it when the time comes around. Everyone is military, former military, or military brat. We are really scattered.

 

[Hotwings]

Christmas cards are one of my favorite things about the holiday. I am not really picky when it comes to most things but I draw the line on Christmas cards. I sometimes feel that some of the cheapest cards have the most sentiment in them. I find big fancy glittery cards have no sentiment, only Merry Christmas and etc. I try to look for cards that have a nature theme, oldtime family theme. I usually don't send out the same card to everyone as there are people on my list that tend to be religious so I send them a religious card. I have a huge collection of cards from previous years LOL! I always want to buy new ones and I already have a ton of nice old ones. I try to get a start on my cards early, but haven't done so yet. I have already gotten 2 cards already. I have a tendency to write one of those what I have been up to the past year letters. Sometimes I hate to get one of those form letters that people send out. I know people have a long list and it cuts down on letter writing but to get a form letter from a relative that starts out as "Dear Friends"? I mean I am family afterall. I display all my cards I receive from people on the desk where I set up my little tree.