zeke
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Post by zeke on Nov 27, 2022 18:43:16 GMT -8
April used to send out cards every year, and I would post 10 or so to my friends. This would be back between 1980 and 2006. I haven't sent out a card since, of any kind, as I recall.
Anybody still send out cards this time of year? Birthday cards to adult relatives? Are cards a thing of the past and I just don't know it yet?
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Post by hikinggods on Nov 27, 2022 20:40:17 GMT -8
It probably IS a thing on the past, but I still send out birthday cards to family and friends, and about 30 Christmas cards every year. It's a way of keeping up with old friends who live far away, as well as family. But then, I've never been one to worry much about what is in style...
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Nov 27, 2022 22:41:54 GMT -8
Still send cards. It’s a fun way to touch base with people far away.
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Post by Travis on Nov 28, 2022 3:15:29 GMT -8
I rarely send any cards and don't do much for holidays. If I do, I usually make my own cards. My sister and I do exchange birthday email cards ribbing each other over our ages. And in May, at a friend's urging, I sent a home-made graduation card to her horse-trainer daughter. Two cards in one year. That's about average.
Otherwise, such greetings are generally exchanged in person or set aside.
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Post by FamilySherpa on Nov 28, 2022 5:37:51 GMT -8
I'd say on average we do christmas cards every other year. We mail birthday cards to a select few people who have made it known that they enjoy receiving them.
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Post by ErnieW on Nov 28, 2022 6:04:19 GMT -8
I don't do cards except for family/friends as part of gift exchange. My wife does cards. She has 9 siblings so just there is a bunch but she is into the paper thing and has a list. Some are clients. It is not unknown for her holiday cards to get sent out after New Years.
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Post by balzaccom on Nov 28, 2022 6:39:11 GMT -8
Nope. I would love to claim that it's because I am saving trees--but I'm really just lousy at this kind of thing. If I have reason to touch base with people, I'll touch base with them--whenever.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Nov 28, 2022 7:23:36 GMT -8
My wife and I used to send out a lot, and it was getting rather expensive. We now post a Christmas greeting on Facebook with photos, and donate the amount we would have spend on postage to what we feel is a good cause.
I still send one or two, but that's it.
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Post by rebeccad on Nov 28, 2022 9:06:39 GMT -8
I have long sent out a holiday letter, with lots of photos, writing one pretty much every year, but often not getting them finished and sent so that I would send two together the following year. I like both sending and receiving them.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Nov 28, 2022 11:31:37 GMT -8
In my field, basic research, we’re pretty much all wanderers so while I’ll not exchange cards with those local for the people I developed a relationship with while they spent time in the lab (a new doctorate will spend two to four years as a “postdoc” in a lab before having the record for their first staff position) who’ve moved on across the country or the world it’s a nice way to keep in touch.
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Post by driftwoody on Nov 28, 2022 16:55:22 GMT -8
The number of Christmas cards I mail has dwindled to the single digits. Some I send only because they send a card to me, and it's a nice greeting so why not.
My sister (3 years older) and I exchange birthday cards. One nice looking card I sent her had "You've never looked younger" on the front. The inside had "THAN ME."
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Post by starwalker on Nov 28, 2022 20:16:08 GMT -8
We still send a "ton" of them out.
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Post by franco on Nov 28, 2022 23:48:05 GMT -8
Aged 6 I was told off by my father when I told him that I knew father Christmas was fake. I never really did xmas after that, so no cards ever from me.
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Post by rebeccad on Nov 29, 2022 7:48:43 GMT -8
The number of Christmas cards I mail has dwindled to the single digits. Some I send only because they send a card to me, and it's a nice greeting so why not. My sister (3 years older) and I exchange birthday cards. One nice looking card I sent her had "You've never looked younger" on the front. The inside had " THAN ME." Mom and I have been exchanging the same card with a joke about recycling it since sometime in the 90s. It doesn’t make it every time, but many years. We sign on a post-it note.
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Post by zeke on Nov 29, 2022 7:56:09 GMT -8
a joke about recycling it If you really wanted to recycle, you'd send her the Post It back to her so she could use it over and over. Since you now get together frequently, you could hand deliver it to save the postal carbon. That would also save the paper the stamp is printed on.
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