Holiday cards - what's your opinion?

[alicebentley]

The concept of mailing something out to a hundred or so friends is quite appealing - and yet the decades roll by without my doing it.

I'm thinking this year it's time. While there's no big news, that in itself is news, and I don't want to drop into my Mom's habit of only contacting people during/after deaths and disasters.

My first roadblock: I don't have near as many postal addresses as I though I had.

Do you mail something out this time of year?

Comments

[rmeidaking.livejournal.com]

I haven't sent them out for a couple of years, but I'm planning on doing so this year. It's a way of saying, "Hey, we're not dead yet!" to the folks who don't read my LJ.

[billroper]

We intend to.

That way, we can include the less than one month old pictures of Katie that were supposed to go in the cards last year. :)

Plaxo helps gather addresses

[dinfosdotnet.livejournal.com]

Plaxo is a good addition to an email client and it will help you get postal addresses from friends.

[whl.livejournal.com]

I haven't, in quite some time, because when I did it, I made the cards myself, and I haven't had any really good ideas for a card design since. (Although I have enough new friends, and old ones with poor memories, maybe I should "recycle" the last one...)

But for some people, christmas cards are the only way I have of finding their addresses. (Of course, figuring out where I stuck the envelope I got from them when I need it is a whole 'nother problem...)

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

Christmas, no. I used to send out Happy Spring cards though. Spring was always defined by me as "when it felt like spring", as opposed to "when the equinox hits".

[mbcrui.livejournal.com]

I send cards to people who send them to me. Some foster sibs, some old friends, some ex-inlaws... less and less every year, since the advent of widely available email.

[isherempress.livejournal.com]

yeah, I do. Not a huge number, and mostly to people I don't see but still want to connect with from time to time. It also helps remind them that no matter what my name or where I live, I'm still me....

[mareklamo.livejournal.com]

I send out cards to about two dozen people. They're store-bought cards, but I try to write something personal in each one.

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[jimf42.livejournal.com]

No, but we feel guilty about not doing so every year.

[hunnythistle.livejournal.com]

Every year I plan too, and every year I don't actually get around to it. The actual address issue is problematic for me as well. I probably only have house addresses for 20% of my friends, and I know that some of those are out of date.

Since we recently moved, I really want to send out some cards, but my track record is abysmal. So we'll see.

Also, I subscribe to the notion of the 12 days of X-mas -- so it's not really over until Jan 6. Those years when I have manged to send out cards, they go in the post that first week of January.