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

[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.