Yet another holiday card poll

starla487

So I read this in my Real Simple magazine this weekend...

And now I have questions.

Holiday cards in the digital age are:

A) Tradition, much like cookies and family gatherings - send them out to everyone, regardless if your family is linked in to some social network.

Useful. Send them to folks outside of the social network only. (I.E. - not on Facebook, etc.) Everyone else has already seen my vacation photos online.

C) An Outdated practice. Don't send them at all. Save paper and money.

 

Anyone not sending them out?

abvernon

This year, I am not sending them out. There was really no milestone to highlight this year (no house or baby). By the time I finally do get around to picking the picture, ordering them and sending them out, it will be Christmas Eve!

patty&nick

I don't send them. Maybe someday when we have a house or a child or even careers, we might. For now it just seems silly since we don't even take any fun vacations to have pictures from.

EmmieB

a. it is important to slow down and do something by hand. I sign every card and hand address them. It takes almost no effort (or thought or care) to type out a status update and to my mind that makes them almost meaningless.

A card requires thought and care. I've skipped them entirely in the past when the option was to do something easy (shutterfly, etc) or not at all.

hannikan

I don't send them out every year, only during milestone years (the year we got engaged, married, this year because we moved). I think it's helpful to do when you move so ppl have your new address (esp people who don't check emails, your blog, FB). On the years that I don't send them out I still make one and just put it in our blog as our holiday post (free!). I like getting holiday cards and I also like making them but it is expensive and unnecessary to send them by mail every year.

Mrs.BoomBoom

We will.  We did when we got engaged (it was our Save the Date) and we did when we got the new house, now we will because of Q

pkw

For the first time in ages I am not sending them out.  I have WAY too much on my plate right now and couple that with it being EJ's birthday I think we are going to transition to new year cards, but we will see how that goes once this semester is over because I am drowning right now.

rachie17

I would have opted not to do them but DH brought it up. He came across a hilarious card on reddit.com last week and now he is convinced we have to do one like it. Both are families are very fun and would get a laugh out of it, its just a matter of actually getting it done. We just got married but will be using a wedding photo for thank you cards so people will already see those.

Being newly married and having a place of our own I hope we get some so I can put them up for display. We were living together last Christmas but now that we are married and have officially entered 'adulthood' I'm hoping we get more.

pondering_gal

We're doing the Shutterfly card, just a picture, nothing special. Last year we did a Save the Date/Merry Christmas in one. Now that we're married it seems like we should do it this year as well

mellyjoy

i try to do christmas cards every year.  i didn't get to celebrate christmas growing up... so now it's really fun for me to do.

CarFar

I send them because I like getting them. It's the whole give and you shall receive thing. I'm also a big sucker for tradition. I try to be creative with out card and letter though so at least it's not just a list of stuff that we've done. Although I think last years will be hard to top.

starla487

I've gotten answers across the board. (Posted the poll on FB as well.)

I wasn't originally going to send them out. I don't do a letter because I often feel that they are pretentious. (Besides, we had a pretty depressing year... cancer... deaths, etc... woo?) So it'd basically be me signing 35 cards and popping them in the mail. I also hand out cards with gifts/cookies to folks that are local.

And I don't save cards... so I wouldn't expect anyone else to, which makes it seem even more wasteful. 

But then I discovered that I bought a TON of Christmas cards on clearance last year. So, I guess I'm sending them out just because I already spent the cash on them. *sigh*