This Yuletide tradition is one I have managed to keep up.
I do send Christmas cards, largely to family members.
I haven't yet written them and sometimes I send them much later in December.
I know the tradition generally is fading somewhat here in the UK with people opting to give to money to charity instead. This has become popular in workplaces like my own.
My own cards are vintage ones from the Seventies. I bought several large boxes of them years ago and have been sent them out ever since. A form of recycling I would argue.
Besides, I love the designs on Seventies Christmas cards and it feels like I'm sending out a little bit of the magic I felt as a kid as these sort of cards where the ones my Mum and Dad had strung up on strings around the front room.
Yes, I also send cards to family members at Christmas. Like you I also send them later than planned!
ReplyDeletebetter late than never eh Peter! Its Christmas after all!
DeleteI send a few cards, but nowhere near as many as I used to a few years back. I'd run into the favoured recipients and ask "Did you get my card?" and was usually met with a blank look and "Er, I dunno - suppose so." It was then I realised that I was wasting my time. Of course, I should've known by the fact that they never sent me one. I now doubt that my cards ever saw the top of their mantlepiece.
ReplyDeletecards are a tricky area I agree Kid. Birthday cards are even trickier. Should I for instance send a Birthday card to a relative who doesn't send me one? Is that not just tit for tat or is it cause and effect? I dunno. Have yet to decide.
DeleteI still make my own to mail to friends, although I admit a few of them end up arriving as sent email attachments!
DeleteGood effort Charlie. Home made shows real committment.
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