Christmas Pictures. WTF? (1 Viewer)

[NutterButter]

I still can't over people sending letters detailing what happened in their lives over the previous year.

I did the Christmas pics yesterday at some photo studio and the thing that really grinds my gears is how serious my wife takes this crap. The two girls and I are there just goofing around trying on different accessories the studio has sitting around and all my wife can think about is how their christmas outfits are getting messed up. Who gives an eff. Its a stupid christmas picture. Everything doesn't have to be this unspoken competition between you and your equally unstable ifriends.

Oh wait. You go and get pictures done???? My wife just finds 3 or 4 photos from the year or we just take one and upload it to whatever site to get printed. We don't actually put in effort

I have never seen a Christmas letter and if we did get one it was never read that I'm aware of.

I like your wife's style. I wouldn't give a crap if this didn't involve me.

 

[NutterButter]

Everything doesn't have to be this unspoken competition between you and your equally unstable ifriends.

Your wife the only female you've ever met? Just arrive on this planet? Born yesterday perhaps? Those are the only things I can think of that would explain your surprise at the female frame of mind.

Now that you mention it, other then a few times a year at family gatherings, my wife might be the only female I know that I interact with and I use that term liberally when it comes to my wife. There is a girl in qa I work with from time to time as well.

 

[Buck Bradcanon]

belljr is super cool you guys.

 

[arrow1]

The better question is why would anyone still write a Christmas letter? We haven't don't that in about a decade now but we receive a few each year.

My wife INSISTS on doing a letter. I have pretty much given up that battle. I just don't get it. We still get a few, but I was hoping that this would go away, but after 20 years, she still sends one out.

 

[RnR]

Bunch of scrooges in here. Remind me to leave all of you off my Christmas card list. ALL OF YOU.

 

[NutterButter]

Don't get me started on cards in general. Does anyone even read those things?

 

[Tom Servo]

Broads love anything that makes their life look better than their friends' lives.

And yet my wife still insists I be in the family Christmas photo.

Does she photoshop in a hot guy over your face?

 

[belljr]

belljr is super cool you guys.

What i do?



I could see being bothered by having to go out to get pictures done for a card.

If we do a new picture we take it with our own camera and up load it

 

[McGarnicle]

I've practically begged my wife to do a parody card, like maybe we're yelling at each other or wearing horrible sweaters or something absurd with the dog. She refuses.

This would be great...I'd love to get something like this in the mail

It would be in this style. Either with us yelling at each other and the dog squirming in my lap, or us wearing matching horrible sweaters and big fake smiles and the dog's face superimposed off to the side. Friends of ours would laugh for hours if we sent that.

 

[FUBAR]

I've practically begged my wife to do a parody card, like maybe we're yelling at each other or wearing horrible sweaters or something absurd with the dog. She refuses.

Wife wants to do a family photo with the dogs. We have 4 dogs. There's 0 chance they will sit for a picture. It was hard enough years ago when we only had 2 dogs. Hey, why not throw the cats in

there too?!

I considered a smart ### response to this, but no sense in derailing this thread with debating whether dogs are comparable to real kids. Carry on.

four kids, one dog (who is 6 months old). Guarantee the dog will be looking much better in the picture than at least one of the kids. Only question will be which kid we chose to let look bad/sad/mad as most likely we'll take twenty pictures, the dog will move in a few, my oldest sons will do something in a few, and my youngest sons will throw a tantrum in half of them.

 

[TLEF316]

My parents (both of them separately since theyre divorced) still insist on taking a family picture with my brothers and I on every single holiday. We're 32,27 and 22. We look exactly the same as we've looked for the last 5 years or so (and will continue to look for the forseeable future)

To my knowledge, it doesn't go out as any sort of Christmas card. I still hate it though. Although I don't think I'm a bad looking guy, I happen to be the least photogenic person on the planet.I always look like a total goof in every picture I take. I freaking hate it

 

[St. Louis Bob]

I've practically begged my wife to do a parody card, like maybe we're yelling at each other or wearing horrible sweaters or something absurd with the dog. She refuses.

Genius. I'm proposing this to my wife tonight.

 

[Courtjester]

We get the letter every year from my wife's cousin. I dont mind, even if they are bragging a bit.

Used to get one from an in-law. "look at me!"

My mother-in-law's letters are legendary. Sure she'll post the obligatory good my kids did this or that, but you better believe if you did something bad that year it's going in the letter. The letter that outlined my brother-in-law's DUI was just awesome

 

[Cjw_55106]

We get the letter every year from my wife's cousin. I dont mind, even if they are bragging a bit.

Used to get one from an in-law. "look at me!"

My mother-in-law's letters are legendary. Sure she'll post the obligatory good my kids did this or that, but you better believe if you did something bad that year it's going in the letter. The letter that outlined my brother-in-law's DUI was just awesome

Now this is something everyone should be able to get behind.

 

[Buck Bradcanon]

We get the letter every year from my wife's cousin. I dont mind, even if they are bragging a bit.

Used to get one from an in-law. "look at me!"

My mother-in-law's letters are legendary. Sure she'll post the obligatory good my kids did this or that, but you better believe if you did something bad that year it's going in the letter. The letter that outlined my brother-in-law's DUI was just awesome

 

[Buck Bradcanon]

belljr is super cool you guys.

What i do?



I could see being bothered by having to go out to get pictures done for a card.

If we do a new picture we take it with our own camera and up load it

My bad. Unwarranted. Was going off the whole I don't do social media bit. But nothing wrong with that. Cheers.

 

[belljr]

belljr is super cool you guys.

What i do?



I could see being bothered by having to go out to get pictures done for a card.

If we do a new picture we take it with our own camera and up load it

My bad. Unwarranted. Was going off the whole I don't do social media bit. But nothing wrong with that. Cheers.

Oh. Didn't mean to sound like I was trying to be cool, my point was I don't do any of that so Christmas cards don't bother me.

 

[belljr]

We get the letter every year from my wife's cousin. I dont mind, even if they are bragging a bit.

Used to get one from an in-law. "look at me!"

My mother-in-law's letters are legendary. Sure she'll post the obligatory good my kids did this or that, but you better believe if you did something bad that year it's going in the letter. The letter that outlined my brother-in-law's DUI was just awesome

 

[GregR]

Don't see the problem.

Then again I don't have social media

I don't follow all of these new-fangled things, but it seems like a great concept to me.

And we shouldn't stop it at just newspaper journalists and TV reporters. We should have social businessmen, social factory workers, social public servants. What a great world it would be if everyone was more sociable, not just the media.

 

[belljr]

Lol... again my point was, I keep to myself and don't like to share everything or pics. Actually have issue when my wife posts somethings about me.

When I get cards I'm not bothered because I don't see their everyday postings/events or whatever

 

[Mr. Ected]

Wife wants to do a family photo with the dogs. We have 4 dogs. There's 0 chance they will sit for a picture. It was hard enough years ago when we only had 2 dogs. Hey, why not throw the cats in

there too?!

I considered a smart ### response to this, but no sense in derailing this thread with debating whether dogs are comparable to real kids. Carry on.

My wife and I did one last with our dog. It was pretty awesome. We even dressed him with a bow tie!

Like this?

 

[Mr. Ected]

Before the Facebook/Social Media/email era, I got the idea of the family card, especially with younger children. Far away family members and friends didn't necessarily get to see the kids growing up and it was a nice easy way of telling a bunch of people the same thing once a year. Nowadays, I don't see the point; everyone can see your kids if you keep connected online in some way.

 

[bentley]

I've practically begged my wife to do a parody card, like maybe we're yelling at each other or wearing horrible sweaters or something absurd with the dog. She refuses.

Genius. I'm proposing this to my wife tonight.

This is a great thing to do once. I have an old college roommate that does this every year and it has become every bit as annoying as a Christmas letter.

 

[bentley]

Jesus guys. What's wrong with sharing a nice family photo with a few of your closest people.

Plus, as we continue to age and my wife continues to be smoking hot, we get to make those other bustards jealous.

Confirmed

Thanks, buddy.

 

[Christo]

Bunch of scrooges in here. Remind me to leave all of you off my Christmas card list. ALL OF YOU.

Leave me off your Christmas card list.

HTH

 

[BustedKnuckles]

Guys on Facebook.

you must be married

face book rocks for meeting women

 

[Brony]

Saddened by the lack of Christmas nudies

 

[bigbottom]

I'm not a fan of being involved in these professional family photos. But shots of the kids? You'll never regret having too many pictures of your children.

 

[Nemesis]

My wife thinks that she has it all figured out. Go on a Thanksgiving cruise (which we've been on ~4 out of the last 6 thanksgivings since we live in FL ):

• Use the "picture night" where we get dressed up anyway
• don't have to pay for sitting fees
• get to take multiple pictures / multiple backgrounds
• and then she gets to pick the best one(s) for our picture and only pay for that one(s)
• no cooking
• no cleaning
• alcohol

I don't really mind that much...as long as the photographers don't call me "sport"or something like that (still remember that way too eager photographer at Olan Mills studios)

Heck, I don't even know where the boat is going....

 

[ghostguy123]

Doing mine in a couple weeks. So lame. Wife yells at me everytime I argue against it. We have only done it a few times, but she wants them with our newborn for this year. Still lame. I still tried to not do it. She even wants to me to buy a new outfit for it.

The pictures are at the mall in one of the stores I usually buy clothes from. I said I could just try on a nice outfit, use it for the pictures, then put it back on the rack. She was all upset.

Can't win on these sometimes

 

[bentley]

Some of you guys have some bad beats with your photos. We meet a gal in a park for about a half hour and she snaps about a billion photos. She manages to find 40 or so where everyone is actually looking at the camera with our eyes open and uses those. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

 

[arrow1]

Doing mine in a couple weeks. So lame. Wife yells at me everytime I argue against it. We have only done it a few times, but she wants them with our newborn for this year. Still lame. I still tried to not do it. She even wants to me to buy a new outfit for it.

The pictures are at the mall in one of the stores I usually buy clothes from. I said I could just try on a nice outfit, use it for the pictures, then put it back on the rack. She was all upset.

Can't win on these sometimes

This is brilliant.

 

[RnR]

Doing mine in a couple weeks. So lame. Wife yells at me everytime I argue against it. We have only done it a few times, but she wants them with our newborn for this year. Still lame. I still tried to not do it. She even wants to me to buy a new outfit for it.

The pictures are at the mall in one of the stores I usually buy clothes from. I said I could just try on a nice outfit, use it for the pictures, then put it back on the rack. She was all upset.

Can't win on these sometimes

This is brilliant.

No surprise that this plays well to a crowd that's too cheap to take a decent family photo and willing to risk the wellness of their marriage over the 45 minutes it takes to do this once a year.