Holidays
Dear Community,

Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.

If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.

Thank you.

Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.

just curious: how many holiday cards do you send out?

I just ordered our Christmas cards for this year and had to get 140 of them (although the list is only about 130, but I wanted a few extras).  Also, my DH owns a business so about 25 of them go to his clients, but still it seems like alot of cards. 

Every year I try to decide who I can cut out to make the list smaller, and this year I was only able to eliminate about 3 of them.. LOL

Is this a crazy amount of Christmas cards to be sending out?  How many do you send out in a typical year? 

Re: just curious: how many holiday cards do you send out?

  • I usually send out about 110 each year. I do update each year, but the list never seems to get any smaller.
    Image and video hosting by TinyPic
  • WOW! I send under 30.
    Visit The Nest!Visit The Nest!
    imageimage
  • I send about 50.
    image
     Helene (Nova726)'s book recommendations, favorite quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf) 
    image
  • We send out btwn 200-250ish.  Both Dh and I have large extended families that we always send cards to...+ friends, neighbors etc  Adds up quick!
  • The number changes almost every year, but it's usually in the 30-40ish range.

  • 80 This year, probably 90 next year.  

    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
  • Wow - I feel ashamed ... 

    I counted 13 yesterday ....

  • We send about 60ish. 200 is a lot! I try to write a note in each card but I can't imagine doing this for 200 people!
    image



  • I send out around130
  • I was wondering where to begin on these.  My H and I just got married 2 weeks ago and considered sending out Christmas cards to every guest we invited to the wedding, but it's just going to get over the top especially since I am hand making the cards myself!

     Maybe I should go back and reconsider the list though...

  • imagejmaiuri:

    I was wondering where to begin on these.  My H and I just got married 2 weeks ago and considered sending out Christmas cards to every guest we invited to the wedding, but it's just going to get over the top especially since I am hand making the cards myself!

     Maybe I should go back and reconsider the list though...

    Send just regular box cards to most guest and Thr handmade ones to special guests, family, wedding party, etc
    Visit The Nest!Visit The Nest!
    imageimage
  • I send out about 2 - 3 packs, so I guess about 50 - 75.  I hate spending the $ on postage, but I love receiving cards so I definitely want to return the favor.
  • imagejmaiuri:

    I was wondering where to begin on these.  My H and I just got married 2 weeks ago and considered sending out Christmas cards to every guest we invited to the wedding, but it's just going to get over the top especially since I am hand making the cards myself!

     Maybe I should go back and reconsider the list though...

    This is what we did the first Christmas after we were married (sent them out to everyone that attended our wedding).  I keep track of who we receive cards from each Christmas, and those are the ones that we will keep sending to...unless they are family or close friends, or elderly people that don't send out cards, we still send them to those people anyway.

  • Do you think it would be appropriate to send the hand-made cards to immediate family/bridal party and generic ones to everyone else?

  • I send about 130 out as well.

    Daisypath Anniversary tickers Lilypie Trying to Conceive Event tickers image Daisypath Christmas tickers
  • Man i thought my 30-40 was a lot...everyone with the 100 & above who do you send to? Family/Friends/ Coworkers?

    image
    my read shelf:
    Jess (Shepherdjel)'s book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
  • Usually about 40.  I used to send out a lot to casual acquaintances, but over time the circle of my acquaintances has come to include many people who don't celebrate Christmas, and it seems weird to send cards to them, even generically "winter" ones, because there is not a reciprocal holiday on which they send cards back to me. It's not tit-for-tat exactly --  it just feels weird to foist a picture of my kids on another family when they don't have a tradition of doing that at any time of the year.

     

    Anyway, it's just our very closest friends, close family, and old skool distant relatives who get cards from us.

Sign In or Register to comment.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards