Holiday greetings

[woodwindy]

I always feel kind of grinchy around this time of year, because I've never gotten myself organized up to send holiday cards. I love getting them. It makes me all warm and fuzzy opening them. Shortly after the opening part, alas, comes the "OMG the guilt from people thinking the L.C. and I don't love them because we never send/return cards!!!" part

Comments

[kyleri]

Yeah, so I've never sent Christmas cards out, either. And I was gonna this year, I swore it. And I totally, totally didn't.

No worries.

[kenjari]

I'm in the same boat with Christmas cards. They just never make it onto my holiday to-do list.

[shalmestere]

I prefer receiving cards to sending them--but I figure that if I don't send any, I can't kvetch about not receiving any :-) (The years I've missed (usually due to illness) I worried that people would drop me, thinking *I'd* dropped *them* =8-0)

[t_bard]

I only sent them this year because I'm consulting
(which can rephrased as "discretely unemployed" ;)

Seriously, I hate the fuss around gifts and cards because its only real for me when it's spontaneous. It makes em uncomfortable when people think of it as an obligation.

[dafyddcyhoeddwr]

Add another to the no-cards brigade. My mother completely failed to indoctrinate me in those social niceties (including thank-you notes/cards for gifts, etc). Not her fault - she did her best. And I used to do the card thing. But I suppose I'm too lazy. I like getting 'em as much as anyone, but I have come to have no expectations about getting a card from anyone (well, except my blood family, of course) since I don't reciprocate. It's probably the same reason I don't get invited to dinner parties and such ...