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Warhogs
Footballguy
By do you send cards I am assuming wife sending counts as me. Yes, she sends some out. No letter. My sister sends a letter each year where we read and just snicker about it each year. I don't need to create a letter as well for the enjoyment/snickers from the receivers. If it were just me, the postal service wouldn't be selling any stamps.
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
We send cards, do not send letters. With three kids, there's nothing we do exciting enough on an annual look back basis we need to keep people updated on.
We have a few people who send us letters. Sometimes they are interesting when they are people you don't see as often as you'd like to. The few from people who really have nothing going on are worth a chuckle. As long as my wife doesn't make me put in the effort to writing one, this is not a topic I'm going to get to invested in one way or the other.
We have a few people who send us letters. Sometimes they are interesting when they are people you don't see as often as you'd like to. The few from people who really have nothing going on are worth a chuckle. As long as my wife doesn't make me put in the effort to writing one, this is not a topic I'm going to get to invested in one way or the other.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I make fun of any letter I get...pretty infrequent that we get one though
One good friends wife includes a small paragraph on their card which isn't too egregious "we had fun doing x and y activity / vacation this year" and it's usually in relation to the pictures
One good friends wife includes a small paragraph on their card which isn't too egregious "we had fun doing x and y activity / vacation this year" and it's usually in relation to the pictures
mr. furley
Footballguy
no to cards & letters
if you're sending a hand written, personalized letter to a loved one... great.
if you're creating a family highlights letter ("little Jehosophat loves kindergarten!" / "sweet Siouszee just adores our new pet alpaca Spitzie Shore") then i'd like to waterboard you
if you're sending a hand written, personalized letter to a loved one... great.
if you're creating a family highlights letter ("little Jehosophat loves kindergarten!" / "sweet Siouszee just adores our new pet alpaca Spitzie Shore") then i'd like to waterboard you
NutterButter
Footballguy
Never heard of a Christmas letter.
McGarnicle
Footballguy
We have an aunt & uncle who send an annual christmas letter. It's usually at least 4000 words crammed onto a single sheet of festive christmas paper with each month of their lives chronicled in excruciating detail. I throw it in the fireplace without reading it, but if we're celebrating christmas with my parents, my mom insists on reading it aloud with a mocking tone, with pauses so we can laugh or make nasty comments or whatever. There's an ongoing debate whether the letters are sincere or a weird parody that only they understand.
Osaurus
Footballguy
Clown Car
Footballguy
I'm down to only 5-6 cards now. Only elderly aunts/uncles/parents who aren't on fb. I never did a newsletter. I didn't mind them though back before fb and even email newsletters. I always write a hand written note in the card and I did judge people negatively who had everything preprinted.
We have only gotten 3 this year. One was from the used car dealer #2 bought her car from.
We have only gotten 3 this year. One was from the used car dealer #2 bought her car from.
Ned
Footballguy
My wife sends cards with a couple of recent pics of us. We probably get 50+ cards and only one letter...
My 91yr old grandfather does a letter every year talking about things he’s done and accomplishments of the extended family. I cherish every single one of them; he’s a special man.
My 91yr old grandfather does a letter every year talking about things he’s done and accomplishments of the extended family. I cherish every single one of them; he’s a special man.
mr. furley
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
E-Z Glider
Footballguy
Yes to cards, no to letter.
We get 3 Christmas letters every year. Two of them are from people our same age who have kids. They're generally obnoxious and filled with cringe-worthy LAM! stuff. We read these mockingly. The last one is from my wifes uncle. He writes well and his letter is a mix of self deprecating humor and stories on what the rest of the family is up to. I genuinely look forward to reading it every year. In general letters are lame, but there are actually people out there who do them well.
We get 3 Christmas letters every year. Two of them are from people our same age who have kids. They're generally obnoxious and filled with cringe-worthy LAM! stuff. We read these mockingly. The last one is from my wifes uncle. He writes well and his letter is a mix of self deprecating humor and stories on what the rest of the family is up to. I genuinely look forward to reading it every year. In general letters are lame, but there are actually people out there who do them well.
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Don Quixote
Footballguy
We did a two-sided card this year, with a photo on one side and photo plus some text on the other side.
I put the cards in the envelopes, and my wife yelled at me because I apparently put the cards in the envelopes "backwards" (with the side including text facing the back of the envelope instead of the front of the envelope). Such a wonderful time of the year.
I put the cards in the envelopes, and my wife yelled at me because I apparently put the cards in the envelopes "backwards" (with the side including text facing the back of the envelope instead of the front of the envelope). Such a wonderful time of the year.
ChiefD
Footballguy
I remember years ago when I was single, I worked for DeWalt tools. They sponsored the Hydroplane racing, so we would support the race with giveaways, tool demonstrations, etc. Awesome for a single 25 year old.Walking Boot said:
Anyway, Camel cigarettes used to sponsor a boat as well, and they would send the Camel girls around to hand out koozies and other assorted swag. So these two scantily clad beauties show up at our booth, so I snap a picture with me between them with this ####-eating grin on my face.
So that was my Christmas card that year, along with the caption: "I don't think these are the Camels the wise men used to get to Bethlehem."
I STILL hear from everyone about that card, and that was 23 years ago.
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arrow1
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Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Sounds like a healthy exercise.McGarnicle said:
Bull Dozier
Footballguy
Sounds like a healthy exercise.McGarnicle said:
McGarnicle
Footballguy
Christmas wouldn't be the same without my mom harshly judging all of her siblings.
In fairness though, this is a good approximation of how cringeworthy the letters are.
Peter Lemonjello
Footballguy
Yes to card. No to letter. Whenever we get the letter from someone it gets a big 
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mr. furley
Footballguy
at Richard and Leif
Fat Nick
Footballguy
We get a few Christmas letters each year. No matter what you write, you won't win...it's either boring or braggy. Just got one yesterday from some retired ex-neighbors who we weren't even that close with. They moved down to North Carolina. Based on how they acted when they moved, and in conversations since, they clearly think that we're all jealous of their mid-level retirement to coastal North Carolina.
"We're loving it down here. The weather is so nice. We bought a boat and are learning how to fish."
Makes me want to respond:
"Cool. The folks who bought your old house are way cooler than you. I like my seasons, and if I want it warm, I'll go to Florida, but to each their own. Most folks in that area have a boat simply because...well...that's kind of why you live on the water. You should've learned to fish when you were a kid like most folks down there. If you catch a puffer fish, I hear they make fantastic sushi - you should try and prepare it yourself."
Card only for us with pictures. No letter.
"We're loving it down here. The weather is so nice. We bought a boat and are learning how to fish."
Makes me want to respond:
"Cool. The folks who bought your old house are way cooler than you. I like my seasons, and if I want it warm, I'll go to Florida, but to each their own. Most folks in that area have a boat simply because...well...that's kind of why you live on the water. You should've learned to fish when you were a kid like most folks down there. If you catch a puffer fish, I hear they make fantastic sushi - you should try and prepare it yourself."
Card only for us with pictures. No letter.
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
It was probably around Feb of 2005 when I found the 2004 xmas cards in my wife's trunk, stamped and unsent.
That was the end of xmas card tradition in our house.
That was the end of xmas card tradition in our house.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Me ma is 94yo, blind in one eye, reads 4 books a wk, but has real trouble deciphering handwriting. She also sends out 100s of Christmas cards (me & she & her arthritis & ginormous address book get started right after Labor Day, no foolin) and takes some of the greatest pleasure she has left opening cards to reconnect with old friends & loved ones in the wks before Christmas. As i read these all to her, i am at liberty to freestyle on family newsletters. Ma giggles like a 4yo as i mix vacations to the Sacred Gorilla Swamps, BDSM conventions and appointments as Corresponding Secretary of the Cheese Straighteners Club in with the putrid awesomeness of these self-indulgent chronicles.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Most Holiday letters nauseate me. Tis the season to get flooded with Christmas letters — often a litany of bombastic bragging disguised as holiday cheer. My wife gets one every year from an old friend and if you read it you would actually think it is fake..she can not cram anymore positive..great things that have happened to her and her family. Everything is "fabulous, great, wonderful,amazing, and the last letter we just got said "Their vacation was "World Class!" Their sons are both going for their masters, one has the best internship, the other met the most beautiful, sweet, kind girl and they plan to get engaged. Her husband is still climbing the ladder and hopes to the president of his company by this time next year..Me? I am the principal of the most fabulous private school and could not be happier.
Never hear any bad news like "Our year in review..my husband for his second DUI and lost his license for two years, our 15 year old daughter is pregnant for the second time and looks like college is out of the question..welfare is in her future..I got fired for stealing for my employer. Our son is in rehab for drug abuse and hopes to get out for the holidays.
Other than that it has been a great 2017..Happy Holidays!!
Never hear any bad news like "Our year in review..my husband for his second DUI and lost his license for two years, our 15 year old daughter is pregnant for the second time and looks like college is out of the question..welfare is in her future..I got fired for stealing for my employer. Our son is in rehab for drug abuse and hopes to get out for the holidays.
Other than that it has been a great 2017..Happy Holidays!!
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McGarnicle
Footballguy
Hubby is walking 5 miles each way to work every day and already lost 8 pounds! Daughter is as popular as ever, I left my job to spend more time at home with my scrapbooking, and our son recently met Charlie Sheen!
James Daulton
Footballguy
We do cards the old fashioned way, find card, insert college pic, we all sign, and wife mails with holiday stamps. Been this way since we've been married, must take her 2 full days to do everything since she includes a personalized note to each recipient.
On the plus side, I finally convinced the wife to let us include an anti-letter this year. Basically it's the same format as the standard brag letter but in our case I carefully crafted a letter full of half truths, exaggerations, and outright lies that made it seem like our 2017 sucked.
Merry Christmas to us!
On the plus side, I finally convinced the wife to let us include an anti-letter this year. Basically it's the same format as the standard brag letter but in our case I carefully crafted a letter full of half truths, exaggerations, and outright lies that made it seem like our 2017 sucked.
Merry Christmas to us!
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Raoul and Congolia Breckenridge still club president and secretary?
Deluxe Model II.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
They were deposed after their electric deck chairs sent several of us to Doctor PlaceRaoul and Congolia Breckenridge still club president and secretary?
Deluxe Model II.
