Holiday cards

[pegkerr]

I have noticed that I seem to be getting fewer holiday cards this year. The basket I usually put them in is only 1/3 full. Is that your impression, too?

Are you sending out more than last year? Less? The same? How many do you generally send out? We are sending out about 150 this year.

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

My count is certainly lower than last year. Last year I sent 140 and get back around 85. Of course we moved mid-year, and I don't think the family got the memo, and I know mail is no longer being forwarded. Plus, I usually send mine before Dec 1, and this year I sent them yesterday. So far we have only gotten about 13. :/

[charlietudor.livejournal.com]

I sent out only about half of last year's count, and seem to be getting as many as last year anyway.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Cards seem to be later - we've been getting more the past couple of days, but the early part of Dec was slow. And some of our friends/family have indicated their cards will come after Christmas.

It's a little hard to compare directly to past accumulations, as in the past we've lined up cards on our bookshelf (thus blocking the DVDs and easily knocked over) and this year I finally gave up on that idea; instead, I'm punching a hole in the corner of each one and using an ornament hanger to hang them from some yarn strung across our big front window.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

This is Mike's year to do holiday letter and cards.

Which means it won't get done at all.

(I have resigned myself to this, as otherwise this humongous task would be mine every year.)

[mjryan.livejournal.com]

I think people are sending cards out much later. They started trickling in last week and have been really coming this week. I bet you get quite a few the next few days. We sent out 80 cards this year.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

We're not sending any this year.

B

[gamps-garret.livejournal.com]

I sent fewer cards this year (I didn't send them to fandom-only friends, as I have in the past, and I am sending New year's cards to my colleagues). i've received fewer as well, but I just moved in October, and I know that many of my family members don't have my new address. And are lazy. :-)

Then again, I have less room for displaying cards (atop each of the five doorframes in my studio (with heavy crown molding on each one). So it looks as if I've received a great many more. (I only have 1.5 frames left.)

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

Wow! 150! I think I'm an anomaly among my friends for sending out as many as 70.

We never get back nearly as many as we send out. We send out between 70 and 80, and rarely get back more than 25.

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

I seem to have slightly fewer than last year. I probably sent out thirty or forty; it seemed like tons, though.

[loup_noir]

There was more this year than last, but less than the years before that. The price of cards and postage have both gone up. With each postage hike, we see a few less.

It's a pain to send them out, but I really do enjoy receiving them, especially if there's some sort of newsletter tucked inside. We're such a mobile society. Friends move away, you don't get to see them regularly and even regular emails don't have the intimacy of one of those silly newsletters.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Between school and family stuffs I'm not sending them til after, but I have noticed that mine are coming in quite late. I think it's just going to be a late year.

[tigergladys.livejournal.com]

We've got much smaller numbers than you do, but I've also noticed a lack of cards in return - we sent out about 45 and so far have gotten 4.
It got much easier for me to send out cards once I stopped stressing about writing individual messages and just sent photo cards. (Hamsters in santa hats.)

[perimyndith.livejournal.com]

This is the first year in 5 years we've actually managed to send out the cards at all, and we sent about 65. We haven't gotten many cards at all, though, certainly fewer than last year.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

I used to send around 45, and I've scaled back to about 20. I gave up on sending cards to most of the folks who never send cards back or otherwise get in touch; I figure, if they still wanted to be in touch with me, they've got my address.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that a lot of people just aren't in the spirit this year; perhaps it's due to Bush and his crusades, dunno.

I intended to send out cards this year, even bought a box of 'em, just haven't yet. I hope to send 'em out by the New Year: Maybe that's what's going on - they're just late.

[elfundeb.livejournal.com]

We send approximately 80 cards every year. The number is steady, although names are added and dropped from time to time. We usually receive 60 or so and I think we're on track this year. Some of my friends are habitually late (including two families who generally get around to sending annual newsletters sometime in March).

I used to send my cards very early, but procrastinated this year. We wrote our cards in a marathon session last weekend. Though it's a chore, I wouldn't consider dropping it even though now we can keep in touch through the internet (and I'm now receiving some ecards and emailed newsletters).

[chamisa.livejournal.com]

I sent out about 60 cards this year, and have gotten about eight in return. I'm not really expecting to get an equal number in return, but that's ok. I don't always do cards every year, so I figure other people don't, either.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

I'm sending out about half of my stack... today.

Meep.

[sheryll.livejournal.com]

I'm very late in sending mine out, just mailed them this afternoon. Sent out about 50-60. I don't keep track of what comes in, just revel in the delight of Christmas mail. :)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I sent out a few more than last year--didn't keep an exact count, around a hundred. Basically, I send out cards to everybody in my address book. New names get added over the course of the year, and it takes a concerted effort for somebody to lose touch with me to the extent that their name gets crossed out.

I think I've gotten a few more than last year, too. My friends seem to be hitting the stage where they start sending out Christmas cards--in previous years, they've been mostly from family.

Soon, I'll start getting back orphan cards that were returned to sender. There will be more crossing-out of names, and then I will transfer all of it to a nifty new address book.

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

I've noticed the same. I've sent out fewer, and received fewer. That seems to be the trend for most people I know. Not sure what it means.