Christmas Letters..Please stop! (1 Viewer)

[Da Guru]

We get Christmas Letters from 3 couples every year. These are the only 3 couples I know that everything is perfect in their lives.

Just got one today and will paraphrase. It was actually much longer with more of the same. I missed 3-4 trips.

Merry Christmas,

Just want to drop a note to let everyone know how our last year was. Well we spent January and February in Naples Florida for the 4th year in a row. Jim golfed everyday, I golfed 2-3 times a week plus doing my yoga still 4-5 times a week. I also had a hole in one..my second!!! Loved going to the beach then out to eat after golf or just staying at the club for drinks and eats

From there we came home to our fully brand new remodeled kitchen with all new upscale appliances that are a dream to cook on. After being home a month Jim and I flew out and attended "The Masters" golf tournament. "Highly recommend" if you have never been to Augusta.

Came home and a month later flew to St Barts for our anniversary for a week. Then back home to start our golf leagues and take golf trips to Northern Michigan. We stayed and played at Bay Harbor for 4 days. Rated #1 course/resort in Michigan. Jim got in 7 rounds, I played 3 but of course ran around the bay and worked out a lot. Headed up to Harbor Springs from there and spent 2 nights on our friends boat and cruised Traverse Bay and hit some wineries.

Our son Bobby just got another promotion and is in the process of building a fabulous new home outside of Atlanta. It has take longer than they thought but will be worth it. His 2 boys are are pretty much all stars in every sport they play. (They are 8-10) Tommy led the BB league in scoring, and Bobby can already throw a football 40 yards and runs like the wind.

Our daughter just moved back to Michigan and they are also building a new home close to us. It will be nice as we will be able to take her 2 kids to "The Country Club" with us as they are already very good golfers. Our granddaughter is in the TAG program in school and is a highly skilled piano player at the age of 12, my grandson is playing travel hockey on the best team in Michigan and is scoring points like Wayne Gretzky. (Yes she actually said that)

On top of all of our travels and golfing events Jim again is doing his consulting work. Jim get so many calls for help and could be doing this 7 days a week but only wants part time so we can enjoy our retirement. I also tutor kids who are struggling in math a couple hours a week to try and give back.

So much more I could cover but that's about it for now..Hope Everyone else is doing well and has a nice Christmas.

Elaine,

How can you even hang out with people like this as they sound insufferable and completely self absorbed.

We don`t. See them maybe 1-2 times a year. Our kids went to school together.

 

[Gatorade]

Used to get a letter every year from a former neighbor. This was before Facebook. They were short and sweet.***

*** The letters, not the neighbors

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

Set up Elaine with a Chris Yandek interview. If anyone cares, it's him.

So you don't talk to them at all during the year? And they send these ridiculous letters? (Edit: I now see you answered this above)

The below are perfect responses. As is sending an anon email letting them know how ridiculous they are.

Tell your postal person to return to sender.

There's 2 ways you can go here with your return Christmas letter
1. One-up them on everything
2. A letter so full of doom and gloom it takes them a minute to realize you're mocking them

Well I have known them for over 25 years and and can count on one hand the times I have seen Jim sober. Plus he got a DUI last year that was never mentioned..rear ended a car stopped at a light and lost his license for 6 months. My daughter knows their son and said he is a skirt chaser and has hit on her friends a number of times while married.

 

[The Z Machine]

My dad send them out. It's mildly cringe, but boomers gonna boom, so if he enjoys it, I don't care much.

 

[Gatorade]

Ignore it and file it away with the other junk mail. You know what the truth is and if writing this down helps her mental health, then maybe it is good therapy for her.
Lots of people do the same thing on FB. It's best to just ignore them.

 

[Joe Bryant]

if writing this down helps her mental health, then maybe it is good therapy for her.

Thanks. That's how I see and understand them mostly. What I didn't understand was the emotion toward these.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

My siblings and cousins send out those cards with pics of their kids and pets. We’re not even organized enough to do that.

 

[culdeus]

We had one that was creative. They would take the approach of two truths and a lie for each person so you never quite knew what was real.

Can be fun if not just a bunch of bragging. The first family I ever knew do this had a massive inheritance and the guy was basically doing shark tank for lulz.

It was well known you could get your deal by sending the right "representative" to his office which had what was described as a bed built into a cabinet to flip down with a button like Austin Powers. The wife never could get her bac below the limit so at least had the sense to have a driver.

They hired a ghost writer every year and it was epic. Their oldest daughter had to go to a satanic cult deprogramming and their two sons did time for running a poker room, both now have high jobs in the trump admin.

 

[GroveDiesel]

There's 2 ways you can go here with your return Christmas letter
1. One-up them on everything
2. A letter so full of doom and gloom it takes them a minute to realize you're mocking them

Option 3: A letter full of mediocrity

It was another wonderful year this year. JJ passed 10th grade after some extra tutoring and summer classes. He also set his personal best disc golf round at our local course with a 3 over par. Felicity made the JV basketball team and even got to play in 2 of the games. Linda, of course, has been at JK Reynolds for 24 years now. They love her so much they even gave her a $1.25/hr raise this year which has been a godsend. We used that to help put the new roof on our shed out back which seems to be keeping the rain out now.

The highlight of the year was definitely our trip to the local Yogi Bear campground. What a hoot that was! Got to play a round of Jellystone mini golf every night and the golf cart parade was something we’ll never forget.

I got to end the year by playing Joseph in the annual town Christmas pageant. Linda said I looked so handsome she kept calling me John C. Reilly. She’s so funny. #Blessed