I have more Christmas cards that I'll ever use

debodun

debodun

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Since I don't mail anymore. I just hand deliver to people I know I will see. I have a HUGE box and I've sorted them by genre - scenic/nature, animals (birds, dogs & cats), religious, Santas & snowmen, and decorations (holly & other seasonal plants, decorated trees and fireplaces). I tried to sell the excess on Marketplace and no response. I brought a bunch to the senior center for the give-away table. A week later, they were still there. I don't even bother with them at the garage sale because that's in the spring and people aren't thinking about Christmas in May. Perhaps everybody else is in the same situation.
 

I have a packet or 2 still, unopened, bought in the last 5 years or so , still modern, but aside from my neighbours I no longer send Christmas cards .. preferring Electronic methods.

I don't send email cards per se... .. rather, I use Moonpig, choose a design, and what I would like written in it, and they do all the hard work and send it for me as a proper card ...
 
I have a box or two around here somewhere... I stopped sending a few years ago. What I used to do is keep one out of the really pretty boxes I used to buy... kind of like a collection of my favorites, but although I thought I might send those off someday, too, I didn't. ☺️
 

I used to mail quiet a few and some were to overseas locales. I kept in touch with people that used to work in the lab, but they left to pursue career advancement, some were in England and some in China and most to just other cities in the U.S. But, like most things of this ilk, they stopped communicating after a while.

I even kept in touch with a woman with whom my dad knew in Europe he met during WW2. She sent him a card every year. After my dad passed, I continued to send her a card. Then one year I received a card from her daughter saying she had passed. Her daughter and I exchanged for a few years, then she stopped sending.

I even have a friend whom I don't see too much of since she developed severe arthritis which makes it difficult for her to get out and about, but she never reciprocated. One time she called me and I asked her about it. She said, in effect, that she doesn't mail Christmas cards. So that fizzled.

Everyone's an email sender these days.
 
The thing is the cost of postage s extortionate now...£1.25 p per stamp here... which equals ( $1.52 US) more if we send overseas... much less the cost of cards ...so there's no contest when it comes to buying and mailing cards these days for most people...
 
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Since I don't mail anymore. I just hand deliver to people I know I will see. I have a HUGE box and I've sorted them by genre - scenic/nature, animals (birds, dogs & cats), religious, Santas & snowmen, and decorations (holly & other seasonal plants, decorated trees and fireplaces). I tried to sell the excess on Marketplace and no response. I brought a bunch to the senior center for the give-away table. A week later, they were still there. I don't even bother with them at the garage sale because that's in the spring and people aren't thinking about Christmas in May. Perhaps everybody else is in the same situation.
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Someone on here posted she makes little boxes out of them. I'm going to do that one of these days. I've saved a lot of mine. They are either so pretty or from a relative/friend that passed.
 
I mail one card each year. It goes to an old Navy shipmate who sends me an annual card. Because his wife died this year I'm not sure he will continue.
 

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