Xmas cards
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 10:28 am
Going to put my foot down this year with Verian. She just went to post a birthday card to Aussie, £2.40, so for the first time she bought it home.
She has an Xmas card list in Access form with 150 names in it that I print out labels for every year many of these living in Aussie and all around the World. Also many are nieces, nephews, or even grand versions of them, people who used to live in our area that were semi friends that we have not seen for 30 years, you get the picture. Probably a lot of them are dead by now. My total family excluding the kids is three older sisters that I have not seen for 20 years and we no longer contact each other, so my total Xmas card list would consist of Mike and my grandchildren.
We have neighbours that we hardly ever see or talk to coming and putting cards in our post box, and friends within a few miles that we see regularly but still send cards to. And if they have not sent us one they feel obliged to send one in return.
Am I being a scrooge, or is it just a waste of money and a source of income to others, never mind the millions of cards themselves that have to be produced to support the industry?
tut
ps:- must be that time of the month for me, subject on 5Live now is how do you tell someone they are fat?
"You are fat, eat less and exercise more then you will not have to be told you're fat."
She has an Xmas card list in Access form with 150 names in it that I print out labels for every year many of these living in Aussie and all around the World. Also many are nieces, nephews, or even grand versions of them, people who used to live in our area that were semi friends that we have not seen for 30 years, you get the picture. Probably a lot of them are dead by now. My total family excluding the kids is three older sisters that I have not seen for 20 years and we no longer contact each other, so my total Xmas card list would consist of Mike and my grandchildren.
We have neighbours that we hardly ever see or talk to coming and putting cards in our post box, and friends within a few miles that we see regularly but still send cards to. And if they have not sent us one they feel obliged to send one in return.
Am I being a scrooge, or is it just a waste of money and a source of income to others, never mind the millions of cards themselves that have to be produced to support the industry?
tut
ps:- must be that time of the month for me, subject on 5Live now is how do you tell someone they are fat?
"You are fat, eat less and exercise more then you will not have to be told you're fat."
