A fun poll (I hope!)....poll on those year summary letters that arrive with some Christmas cards....

[NRaleighLiberal]

Be honest, now!

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	I love those letters and we send one ourselves
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	I love those letters but we don't send one
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	Those letters make me LMAO usually, but we don't send our own
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	We make up a completely BS letter and send it
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	I can't stand them
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	We write personal notes on a few of the cards, but no letter
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	Who sends Christmas cards any more?
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	Other
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	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Wait Wut]

1. I'm a graphic artist.

I am currently working on my (hopefully) last customer Xmas letter/card. I actually put more time into them than what I'm paid for. It's important to them, I guess.

But...

Holy cow...

Some of them are DEPRESSING!!! One from earlier went on for two paragraphs discussing her husband's gall bladder surgery and her unknown medical illness. How it's 'ruined Xmas' for them (a pleasant, very wealthy, very religious, very RW couple). 'Ruined' to them meant they weren't going to be able to take that trip to some Mexican town that I've forgotten how to spell. Seriously, I guess I feel a little bad for them. The whole family is going and they were looking forward to it. Yes, I can have sympathy for anyone. It's a personality flaw.

I only send cards to my brother and sister.

[HappyMe]

2. I laughed my ass off at them.

Years ago, my ex and I made up a bunch of crazy stuff and sent it out.
We didn't get any more Christmas letters.

[Myrina]

3. Nothing I hate more than people gloating about ...

.... how busy they are, what pointless shit they bought this year or how perfect their rotten teenagers are.

If I gave a damn, I'd ask.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Some we get are perfect depictions of silly narcissism.....but to each their own, I suppose.

One annual letter spends a whole side, single spaced, on every antic their cats have been up to. Painful. And yet....they've become some sort of twisted custom with equal dread and anticipation!

[HappyMe]

5. Yikes!

I'll take the exaggerations and silly gloating over cat news any day.

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. Two pages every year

It's kind of a combination of a) what everyone is doing and b) stuff we did this year. I try to keep it free of serious whining, but I will mention that when a car air conditioner breaks on a trip, it does so in Savannah when it's 100 outside, and that I've observed that the OBDgirls get cranky when this happens. Mostly it's lighthearted fun, and I'm told that people enjoy receiving it.

If they hate it, I hope they'll let me know in a roundabout, secondhand way so that we never have to bother them again. Ever.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. I love seeing what friends have been doing and now, more than ever... I kinda live...

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... vicariously through them.
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My favoritre was the year one of my favorite people ever included her favorite
new nickname ("The Cobblebabe&quot given to her by me for bringing raspberry
cobblers to all of our community radio fund drives (at which she answered the
phone during my show.
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Thanks to those who've sent me one.
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[Phentex]

8. Other: I write a personal note on every card. No letter although

I might write a longer note on the cards of very close friends.

I like to get letters and I like to make fun of some of them and *some* I just don't understand at all.

I have noticed a trend this year where the note or letter is printed on the back of the card. That probably helps with the postage and it's kinda cool.

I REALLY do not like getting a pre-printed card with a printed address label and printed return label and no sign of a human sentiment at all. Guess it's better than not getting one but still.

[frogmarch]

9. Mr. froggy and I send Xmas cards to

a few close friends and some family members, and we always write a short personal note on each one.

One of my sisters-in-law sends a multi-page letter with her Christmas cards, telling everyone what she, her husband, their kids, their grandkids and all their neighbors have done in the past year. Whew, way too much information. Plus, we barely know – or don’t know – some of the people she writes about. I mean, I guess it’s nice that a neighbor of hers named Phyllis Kratterville or Krattabel put up over 50 quarts of strawberries last summer, but c’mon. And I don’t care where Margaret so-and-so bought her granddaughter’s christening gown for half price or about sis-in-law’s husband Charlie’s occasional bouts with diarrhea or how many hogs the family butchered this year.

We like receiving Christmas cards and letters, but as for the Christmas letters, we don't care to know every detail of people's lives over the past year, and that goes double for people we don't know.

[csziggy]

10. Some of my husband's family sends them

Mostly his aunts - one in Hawaii, one in New Mexico. Since we don't correspond regularly, it's a nice way to find out what they've been up to.

The ones I never got and am glad about it were from my fundamentalist aunt and uncle with my aunt talking all the BS missionary work they did and bragging on their "good" son, the one that became a fundamentalist minister and joined the army. They never mentioned their other son, who became a minister but in a *gasp* different denomination. I never got them because they cut me off when I got married with no ceremony at all, much less a Christian church wedding. My sisters did get them and they would read them to me while we were

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. So far this is turning out to be a great example of the diversity of DU!

[antigone382]

12. My uncle and his family send one out each year.

They are usually not longer than a page, with lots of pictures, and some kind of theme...like, for 2010's letter, they noted how at the end of the decade, popular media always comes out with "Best -___of the DECADE" that usually just includes things from that year...so all of their yearly activities were the BEST ___ OF THE DECADE!

They have a sense of humor about them and it is nice to read about their lives...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

13. I am doing my best to Not think of Christmas.

But it still keeps sneaking up anyway.

Anyone know any way to make roman noodles festive?

ADD= Oh, look! I am also the 13th. post. MAKE IT STOP!!!!!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

14. And now it looks like I killed the thread! Great, just GREAT!