I got a Christmas card this morning .....

[Sue]

I can't decide whether the senders (a couple) are extremely well organised, orwhether they just want to make sure that they get sent cards themselves :))

ETA: Theirs is always the first card I get, but really, 1 December is a bit over the top, isn't it!

[Salsaboy]

Heard my first xmas record on Radio 2 this morning. Far too early in the year. Bah humbug.

[new mother]

They are extremely well organised - they have judged it to arrive today. Impressive. Wow. Posted yesterday deliberately to reach you today.

[DulwichFox]

It was posted last Xmas...

Post Office only just got round to delivering it.. :))

Foxy

[Jah Lush]

I saw my first Christmas tree proudly displayed with flashing lights and decorations in someone's front room three days ago. In November FFS!

[hellosailor]

A house a few doors down from us has had snow spray on their windows since Nov 3rd...

Co-op have had mince pies since October, discounting them already!

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> It was posted last Xmas...

>

> Post Office only just got round to delivering

> it.. :))

>

> Foxy

xxxxxxxxx

:))

[Sue]

Homebase have got all their Christmas lights "half price" (so surely must have doubled the price first?)

[Fiacre]

We had our first card two weeks ago! now that it is early

[Moos]

I'll have to remember to post my brother's card by Monday. But everyone else's will probably get put in the post some time around Christmas Eve. :-$

I'm entirely intimidated by the Christmas Organized. One of my forumite friends posted weeks ago on facebook that she'd already finished her Christmas shopping - eek.

[katie1997]

At least you waited until December to use the 'C' word on here Sue (tu)

Only three and a half weeks to go....

[Moos]

For what it's worth, Advent started in November this year - often does.

[Sue]

Moos Wrote:

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> I'll have to remember to post my brother's card by

> Monday. But everyone else's will probably get put

> in the post some time around Christmas Eve. :-$

>

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A couple of years ago someone sent me a

Jacquie Lawson

animated Christmas card.

Since then, I have mostly sent their e-cards. Once you've put all the email addresses in, you just have to write a general message and one click and it's done. Or you can do individual messages but that takes longer :-$

And you've got all the email addresses saved then for the future. This year, they've got a Christmas letter blank template that you can write a Christmas letter, personalise it for each person as you want and again, one click blah blah.

OK you can't hang them on the back of the door or put them on the mantelpiece, but hey it's environmentally friendly (well that's my excuse :-$ )

Has saved me a fortune in cards and stamps :-$

Only thing is, they are a bit twee and most of the accompanying music is truly abysmal. But as e-cards go they're quite sweet - they're not so bad I'm ashamed to send them :))

You get unlimited cards for a year, so with birthdays etc as well it's pretty good value. And people seem to like getting them, or maybe they're just polite .....

[Annette Curtain]

Moos Wrote:

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> For what it's worth, Advent started in November

> this year - often does.

Moos

Do NOT tell that to my children

Actually, the eldest did tell me but I piff'd at him.

Oh boy & will he piff me back when/if he finds out.

NETTE:-S

[Moos]

Sorry Sue, I think this is going to sound really harsh but if someone sent me an e-Christmas card I'd think they were either lazy as hell or didn't like me very much.

I do struggle to find the time myself and I know you're really busy but I try to put aside a couple of evenings with a large glass of wine and write cards. Probably only manage a couple of dozen so if you have a lot of friends I guess it might not be possible. Before we had kids I even made cards myself... yeah, that's gone for a Burton.

Annette - pfffft indeed. Did you see the Playmobile Advent calendars with Proper Big Toys in EVERY CHUFFING DAY? Sheesh. We thought we were spoilt when I was a kid when they invented ones with chocolate in.

[Sue]

Moos Wrote:

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> Sorry Sue, I think this is going to sound really

> harsh but if someone sent me an e-Christmas card

> I'd think they were either lazy as hell or didn't

> like me very much.

>

> I do struggle to find the time myself and I know

> you're really busy but I try to put aside a couple

> of evenings with a large glass of wine and write

> cards. Probably only manage a couple of dozen so

> if you have a lot of friends I guess it might not

> be possible. Before we had kids I even made cards

> myself... yeah, that's gone for a Burton.

>

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Fair enough, but I have over sixty people to send cards to.

For years I made my own cards, but I have too much else to do at the moment. And stamps for that many cards cost a lot, let alone the cost of buying decent cards.

I appreciate the cost and effort made by people who still send physical cards, but I'm no longer working and don't have the money I used to for things like that.

ETA: I would only buy charity cards, and even the very cheapest ones are not particularly cheap. Personally I'd rather receive a nice e-card than a "real" card that's clearly come out of a box from a remainder bin.

[flapjackdavey]

I saw a flat in the next block to me with full on christmas lights up and on and this was three weeks ago .... crazy.:))

[Sue]

flapjackdavey Wrote:

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> I saw a flat in the next block to me with full on

> christmas lights up and on and this was three

> weeks ago .... crazy.:))

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So when are the lights going on at Packett Mansions, then, FJD?? Will there be reindeers? You could hang an illuminated crow over the balcony :))

:))

ETA: Reindeer? Reindeers?

[ibilly99]

http://www.kramerclan.us/SiteGraphics/Christmas%20Graphic%27s/christmas-animated-gifs-03.gif

[????]

oh gawd it's the first "First Christmas Card" thread of this Christmas and it's only December 2nd

[Jeremy]

Salvation Army band out in force at London Bridge this morning... sounding rather rusty...

[the-e-dealer]

I got one a week ago from NZ.

[new mother]

That takes the prize surely?!

A friend of mine gets all hers from the sales post Christmas and hangs on to them for a year. Seriously. Decorations too till she had enough. Another friend's great aunt used to get toys in the sales and they were always extra out of step for the recipients' ages as a result.

[ibilly99]

A very merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let's hope it's a good one

Without any fear

And so this is Christmas

For weak and for strong

For rich and the poor ones

The world is so wrong

And so happy Christmas

For black and for white

For yellow and red ones

Let's stop all the fight

A very merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let's hope it's a good one

Without any fear

And so this is Christmas

And what have we done

Another year over

And a new one just begun

Ans so this is Christmas

I hope you have fun

The near and the dear one

The old and the young

A very merry Christmas

And a happy New Year

Let's hope it's a good one

Without any fear

War is over over

If you want it

War is over

Now...

[Sue]

new mother Wrote:

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> Another friend's great aunt used to get toys in

> the sales and they were always extra out of step

> for the recipients' ages as a result.

xxxxxxx

That's really funny :))

She had no grasp of maths, obviously (well if he's six now, next Christmas he will be .... )