I will readily admit that I have always been terrible at sending Christmas cards. Not sure why... the time gets away from me. However, yes.. we received about four or five... I think the postage rates have decreased the amount. When you start adding up the cost of food, gifts, etc.. not much left for postage.
There is one type of card that has always annoyed me... the dreaded “my life is so great and better than yours” card. Maybe I’m the only one that gets those. A relative or neighbor writes about their year.. “John and I had a wonderful time in Bora Bora, the kids are all going to Ivy League schools, I decided I didn’t like last years carpet colors so I replaced the entire house with new carpet again, attending the Kennedy Center every Friday night is becoming boring, the new Lexus is wonderful...” I hate those...
Would you rather get the opposite?
"It was another crappy year in the trailer. Two of the kids got knocked up and the car isn't reliable enough to visit Jesse upstate in prison. Joe's meth lab dissolved half the carpet so we have to be careful where we step."
“the dreaded “my life is so great and better than yours” card.”
Oh, man... I hate those letters. Our former neighbors are famous for that, and we won’t even open them any more. “Our daughter just discovered the cure for all cancers known to man. For his doctoral thesis, our youngest son composed a piano concerto that will push to the background Beethoven and Mozart and he has been declared God Of The Keyboard For All Eternity. Our other daughter is, single-handedly, providing drinking water to all of the Bedouin population. She carries it to them in Dixie cups and it’s a never-ending project. We’re so proud.”
arrrrgh!
I have two relatives-by-marriage who do this. They are parents and child, so it is the same news twice, from slightly different perspectives. The last time I responded to one, I received no further reply, so I simply figure they do this for themselves.
I have an ex-sister in law that used to do that every year, two page typed letter of their great year inside their card. Now she does a letter of all the bad stuff the Republicans have done, her son’s trials (he is in and out of prison) it is all negative, she also trashed my brother for about 10 years after they divorced. We find it really humorous, lightens up our day when it arrives. Liberals really become bitter as they age.
When my wife gets one of these cards, “the new Lexus is wonderful”
This is her reply:
Gee, what happened to your previous Lexus, our 7 year old Lexus is still great.
LOL...I get a couple of those every year. And I HATE them!!! Nothing makes me feel more like my life sucks, my husband sucks, my kids are slackers and we haven’t done near enough for mankind!