Do you send simple holiday cards out or do you include a letter of the rundown if the past year?

I just send a picture card of the kids usually, with a generic greeting from the family. Anytime I get one of those Christmas letters from people it just usually tells me about how they went to visit other people and then a bunch of negative things about their health and stuff. It's actually kind of depressing to read them.

Do you look forward to the letters or do you look forward to writing them?

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Asked by QuinnMae at 5:50 PM on Dec. 22, 2012 in Holidays

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The pre-printed newsletters to everyone, I love for the comedy. I get one every year from my cousin's family that is ALL about his wife. The only time he's even mentioned in it is if he did something with her. He got a new job this year, didn't even make it in for a mention. You can tell that not only is she writing it, but that the world is all about her (just like when you talk to her in person).

I just write them by hand, and once in a while, if it's someone I don't talk to as often, add a handwritten note inside the front, covering the basics and asking about them. I only send as many as I have copies of DS's school picture, so it's mostly close family at this point.

Answer by NotPanicking at 5:58 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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I've never done the holiday newsletter thing.

Answer by 3libras at 6:00 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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I really dislike those copied "how my year was" letters. I would never do it. It really is very tacky & inconsiderate. If you are sending a letter like that then you haven't spoken to the recipient in a year therefore you do not know what occurred in their life & it may have been bad & if you did know that's worse! My Dad passed in March & I received a "wow, I had the best year of my life" letter from a family friend who actually knew about my Dad's death & was very friendly with him. She sent it to me, my sisters & my Mother. With no little written note to console my Mom at least. This is an older woman who should have known better too. My DH read it & called her the "c" word!

Answer by ILovemyPaulie at 6:05 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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Wow. That makes me feel sort of bad. I don't write in them at all. Just leave the preprinted general greeting say it all for me. The one I got today was just, well, for lack of better expression- boring and depressing. I guess it's just not in my genetic makeup to send out those newsletters. I don't even update my FB status. Ever. I don't do twitter. I figure nobody is really interested in what I am doing at any particular time, and if they are and they are close enough to me they already have my phone number.

I figure one of these years when my life is a total train wreck I will send out a fantastic newsletter and surprise them with my whirlwind of a year.

Comment by QuinnMae (original poster) at 6:05 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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I actually haven't spoken to this part of my family for probably close to if not more than 10 years. I have moved twice without sending them my new address (to be fair, the last time we moved I didn't send out the new address to anyone that didn't expressly ask for it). She actually went through another family member to get permission to have my addy when we are listed in the book and on white pages. It's not like I am hiding. Just to send me this newsletter spelling out travel plans and illnesses.
I just don't get those people.

Comment by QuinnMae (original poster) at 6:11 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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I'm super simple. I enjoy hearing about what others are doing but so far I haven't received one like that.

Answer by PMSMom10 at 6:13 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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I send out a card with a santa pic of the youngest and a school pic of the older child. I always hand write a letter to my Grandmother in law because she always writes a lovely letter to us. I don't mind how my year went copied letters, and I don't mind photo cards without anything else but the printed greeting. I lost my grandfather last month and I don't expect anyone to mention it in a Christmas card. Those who wanted to express sympathy already did it with a sympathy card or at the services for him or with a call.

Answer by tessiedawg at 6:21 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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Aww, I'm sorry for your loss. I actually don't mind people including the departed in their letters, I am referencing more of the occasional funk some of us experience. The one I just got talked about a nerve issue that can be relieved with stretching and time, but not debilitating. I would put it above a hangnail, maybe at the same level as slightly elevated cholesterol levels.

Comment by QuinnMae (original poster) at 6:26 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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Thank you, QuinnMae and LOL at the hangnail. I wouldn't write a blanket letter, because it is so hard not to sound silly or self centered. :)

Answer by tessiedawg at 6:28 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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I make greeting cards using photos of the kids & a generic holiday greeting printed on it

Answer by tnm786 at 6:30 PM on Dec. 22, 2012
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