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Holiday cards poll
Do you send holiday cards in December? (Christmas, Hannukah, Happy New Year, Seasons Greetings, Happy Kwanzaa, etc)
How many cards do you usually receive each year?
What do you do with the cards you receive?
If you send cards:
Do you do photo cards, store bought cards, or home-made cards?
When do you aim to mail them by?
When do you usually get them mailed?
Do you write personal notes in each?
Do you write a "newsletter"?
How many cards do you send?
Who is on your list?
Re: Holiday cards poll
Do you send holiday cards in December? (Christmas, Hannukah, Happy New Year, Seasons Greetings, Happy Kwanzaa, etc) Yes.
How many cards do you usually receive each year? I'd guess maybe 30.
What do you do with the cards you receive? I tape them up on the wall in the shape of a tree. After Christmas I throw them in a box.
If you send cards:
Do you do photo cards, store bought cards, or home-made cards? Store bought cards. I made my own one year and it was just too much work. This year I am putting in a photo collage of our dog, but I couldn't bring myself to do the full photo card thing for "just" a dog.
When do you aim to mail them by? I'd like to get them mailed by 12/15 or so.
When do you usually get them mailed? Most years I am on schedule. This year it will be more likely that they get mailed this weekend or Monday.
Do you write personal notes in each? Only for the people we don't see/email/call often.
Do you write a "newsletter"? No.
How many cards do you send? It's looking like close to 50 this year.
Who is on your list? Immediate family, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and the adult cousins we are closest to. Close friends from college and high school, too, even if we don't really talk anymore. I like to let them know we are thinking of them.
Do you send holiday cards in December? (Christmas, Hannukah, Happy New Year, Seasons Greetings, Happy Kwanzaa, etc)
Yes
How many cards do you usually receive each year? about 45-50, I think
What do you do with the cards you receive? I have them taped/displayed on the counter in the "window" between the kitchen and living room.
If you send cards:
Do you do photo cards, store bought cards, or home-made cards?
When do you aim to mail them by? I hope to have them ordered this week, so shipped ASAP!
When do you usually get them mailed? I'm usually nice and early- by the first weekend of Dec
Do you write personal notes in each? I always write at least something- if even "Merry Christmas!" or "I hope you, Rob, and Aidan are doing well!"
Do you write a "newsletter"? Nope
How many cards do you send? About 50
Who is on your list? Family and friends
Yes
Probably 50+
Photo cards
Whenever I get them out the door. They go out in waves
See above
Yes. I hate blank cards
Sometimes, but it's very brief
75-100
Friends and family
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Do you send holiday cards in December? Yep
How many cards do you usually receive each year? I don't know, but dozens
What do you do with the cards you receive? We have two half-pillars between our living room and family room. I tie a string around the top of both that dangles to the floor and clip the cards to the string, creating a sort of hanging tower of cards.
Do you do photo cards, store bought cards, or home-made cards? We did photo cards the year we got married because after invitations and thank yous there was no way I was writing Xmas cards too. Otherwise, every other year I've sent boxed cards.
When do you aim to mail them by? Before Christmas
When do you usually get them mailed? Some years I'm really on top of it and get them out early in the month. Others are like this year--haven't started a single one yet.
Do you write personal notes in each? Yep, so they take me forever.
Do you write a "newsletter"? No.
How many cards do you send? A bajillion. At least it feels like it. I tried to pare down the list last year, but I think I'm still at maybe 75-80?
Who is on your list? Um, maybe who isn't on my list would be a shorter answer.
Do you send holiday cards in December? (Christmas, Hannukah, Happy New Year, Seasons Greetings, Happy Kwanzaa, etc) Yes.
How many cards do you usually receive each year? 50ish.
What do you do with the cards you receive? I tape them on the side of the pantry cabinet.
If you send cards:
Do you do photo cards, store bought cards, or home-made cards? Photo cards
When do you aim to mail them by? I am expecting them to arrive tomorrow so I'll mail them by the end of the week.
When do you usually get them mailed? Before Christmas!
Do you write personal notes in each? No.
Do you write a "newsletter"? No.
How many cards do you send? 90-100
Who is on your list? Everyone whose address I have. Our wedding guest list, plus whoever we've added since.
Do you send holiday cards in December? I did this year and 2 years ago when we bought our house. I was going to last year with pics from Hawaii but my lab was moving the beginning of December and I was so stressed out from it that I never did.
How many cards do you usually receive each year? Maybe a dozen or so? Not too many of my friends have started sending them yet (most do not have kids, and some are still not married).
What do you do with the cards you receive? They are on the dining room table. I will be moving them downstairs to display when people are here for Christmas.
If you send cards:
Do you do photo cards, store bought cards, or home-made cards? Photo cards, both years.
When do you aim to mail them by? No specific date. I try to order them the first week of December.
When do you usually get them mailed? Just got most of them in the mail today. Have a few more addresses I'm waiting on.
Do you write personal notes in each? No since it is just the photo card.
Do you write a "newsletter"? No. My mom does.
How many cards do you send? I sent about 40 this year.
Who is on your list? Family and close friends. It is hard because I have a big family and now that most of my cousins don't live at home I want to send them their own cards too, so the numbers (and cost) add up quickly.
It's a lot, but at least the cards cost less the more you order lol
But the stamps stay the same! That's where it gets expensive, IMO.
My extended family is huge and all local so my wedding invite list was out of control. I let my mom handle sending cards to those relatives on my behalf. Usually she does a photo card that I am in with my siblings every year, so it is kind of like they are getting one from me. Or at least that's how I rationalize it.
Kind of the same situation here. Some of our wedding guests were friends and neighbors of our parents. My mom always sends out a photo card (which will have one of the two pictures from our photo card) and a letter to everyone so they will already know what's going on with us.
Do you send holiday cards in December? (Christmas, Hannukah, Happy New Year, Seasons Greetings, Happy Kwanzaa, etc) Christmas cards
How many cards do you usually receive each year? probably between 20 and 40 depending on the year
What do you do with the cards you receive? We hang them up on a string with these little mini Christmas clothespins until we take down the decorations. Then we save some of the picture cards (esp family and close friends) and recycle the rest.
If you send cards:
Do you do photo cards, store bought cards, or home-made cards? photo cards
When do you aim to mail them by? I would like to do it about 2 weeks before Christmas ..... realistically they will go in the mail late next week because we just ordered them on Sunday (one of these years we will take pictures early like I always try to plan it).
When do you usually get them mailed? haha ... see above
Do you write personal notes in each? in an ideal world sure ... but no ... we don't
Do you write a "newsletter"? definitely not ... I think I did once, the year I graduated from college and went to grad school when I thought my life was "Oh So Exciting!"
How many cards do you send? about 50
Who is on your list? family and close friends, a few work connections and local store owners we are close to