Sending Christmas Cards

[sue11]

We have just received a Christmas card addressed to the previous owners of our house. We moved in over 2 years ago.
I guess that who ever sent it has not kept in touch with the previous owners or they would have known they had moved.
We also used to receive a Christmas card for the previous owners of our old house, this was sent every year for a period of over 20 years!
I wonder why people bother to do this, when for all intents and purposes it looks as if they never keep in touch except at Christmas time.
Does anyone else do this with people you have lost touch with? Or do you not bother?

[China Doll]

Don't bother with christmas cards.

[mazie]

I'm with CD. Stopped sending them a few years ago (apart from to my Mum)

[ummmm]

I don't think I've ever sent an xmas card.

[mccfluff]

dont bother sending them, it drives me mad when people at work give them out, i'll see them every day apart from xmas day itself. its a waste of money imo

[Arksided]

Not Christmas cards but I've being at my cuurent address for Eleven years and still receive letters to the previous occupant from 'Specsavers' after numerous "Return to sender, Not known at this address" I still get them.

I'm sure there's some Irony about it.

[boxtops]

I have a small group of people where Christmas is usually our only contact, scattered all round the country. We like to keep in touch, even if it's only touching base - I've known many of them for over 30 years. If I send a card but don't hear back, I'll send for a second year then leave it - people don't always tell people they've moved, or if anything has happened to them, we're unlikely to know. I put a return address on the back of those cards, just in case.

[EcclesCake]

I've just received a completely accurately addressed card however I've never heard of the family and they've definitely lived here.

A quick look in the phone book hasn't helped so it has gone in the bin.

I send cards to friends that I want to keep in touch with who live a distance away and I don't get to see every year. I have never understood the mentality of going into work and handing a card your colleague who you sit next to everyday!

[cazzz1975]

Ive noticed this year there is a real lack of xmas card sending going on, I wont complain, I find xmas cards a chore.

[ummmm]

A chore, a waste, and look scruffy...

I just look at them, waiting for boxing day, so I can throw them in the bin!

[sue11]

Hi all, thanks for your answers so far. Yes agree it is a bit daft to hand out Christmas cards to those you work with. I used to work in an office and handed out around 20 cards to people that I would never choose to socialise with out of work! Also it got a bit political in that you would know how much you were thought of dependant on how nice the card was!
I think regarding sending out cards to those that you do not see a lot of such as people living in a different part of the UK, that is fine, we have friends such as these that we send them to, but we do make the effort to keep in touch as well by phone calls and try to meet up if we can. I think my point was more around the friends that you have completely lost touch with and are not even sure if they are still living at the same address.
Thanks for the answers given.

[naomi24]

I only send cards to people I rarely see. It's nice to catch up with old friends who live far away - if only once a year.

[EcclesCake]

I had a serious falling out with a friend a few years ago. Every year I receive a card from her, I don't reciprocate and honestly believe she isn't trying to build bridges.....she's on auto pilot going through her address book!

[ummmm]

Some time soon will get a visit from my kids paternal grand parents where grandad will hand over a card, ask how the kids are and leave without actually entering my house.

This will be repeated at Easter.

No contact whatsoever for the rest of the year.

[viv38]

I send and receive Christmas cards and I like them plopping onto the doormat! BUT some of them are sent and received from people I never see from one year to the next - daft I know !

[sue11]

omg ummmmm, that is not very nice of the grandparents! I take it you have fallen out with them? What a shame, it was the other way around with my sisters in laws, they decided that they only like one of her two boys and used to invite one round to the house and ignore the other, people can be very cruel can't they.
Once again thank you to all for the responses, I am enjoying reading them and agreeing with most of what has been written!
Sue