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Post by peony on Nov 24, 2014 14:56:28 GMT
I must persuade OH to get the cards etc down from the loft - so that I can see how many I need to buy. Writing cards is always my job - I wonder why that is?  I don't want to move to 'Christmas emails' but the price of stamps makes sending cards a very expensive thing to do these days.  And mine Geranium  Has anyone else noticed that Christmas cards have gone all 'PC'. Lots don't say 'Happy Christmas' anymore, its 'festive greetings'! I like the more traditional cards with snowy scenes, robins and holly and definitely not loads of glitter, but looking round M&S this morning I couldn't find any that I liked. I'll have to try the garden centre they had a better selection last year. |
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Post by Geranium on Nov 25, 2014 6:00:03 GMT
I refuse to send out any PC cards like that, peony. I really prefer to send out 'proper' Nativity scenes, but they are as rare as hens' teeth these days. I try to get the stamps to match, too, but they sell out fast! The GC was almost entirely Christmas-oriented on Saturday, but the entrance was beautifully done; you walk through a 'snowy' landscape - all sparkly. I was annoyed that the route through the store to the tills was all blocked off so it was very awkward getting a trolley through the hordes buying up decorations. I suppose they have to - they make a lot of money doing this each year, but some of us still want to buy gardening 'things'! |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 25, 2014 10:00:11 GMT
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Post by Cherry on Nov 25, 2014 19:56:02 GMT
They are nice ones Rosie. I buy mine at the end of the year on special but they are charity cards. |
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Post by Bess on Nov 26, 2014 3:25:52 GMT
A few weeks ago at a local art shop, I fell for some fancy 'laser cut' Christmas cards with woodland animals on, by Roger la Barde for charity. They looked gorgeous in the packet - but opening them recently I discovered they didn't have anywhere to write your message on due to the design - how stupid, grr! Won't be falling for that one again (for a while anyway...)
Thanks for those links, Rosie, might buy some traditional ones from Cancer Research for some of my older relatives who prefer them that way too.
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Post by Geranium on Nov 26, 2014 6:06:27 GMT
They are nice ones Rosie. I buy mine at the end of the year on special but they are charity cards. Yes, I do that too - just trying to save a few pennies, as postage is so high. The stamps cost more than the cards!  I hand-deliver all the local ones. |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 26, 2014 8:41:31 GMT
They are nice ones Rosie. I buy mine at the end of the year on special but they are charity cards. I say I am going to do that too but I never remember to actually buy them   |
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Post by Geranium on Nov 27, 2014 6:11:54 GMT
Do you want us to remind you, Rosie? |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 27, 2014 8:40:20 GMT
That would be a good idea Geranium, a good kick up the pants would work  |
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Post by SueA on Nov 27, 2014 21:32:11 GMT
I'm another one who buys cards in the sale for the next year, I try to get charity ones even if they're from one of the supermarkets or stationers. The trouble with me is I sometimes forget I how many I bought or where I've put them, buy more & end up with half used boxes everywhere from various years!  Bess if you mean those cards have a 'holey' pattern you could always write your message on the back & maybe write a tiny p.t.o. on the inside where it doesn't show through the pattern. I bet the person who made them didn't think about that when they were getting carried away with the designing! Or you could write your message deliberately wonky so that it hides behind the solid bits if the person you're sending it to has a sense of humour & wouldn't just think you must be drunk!  I got some photo ones printed once to send to family & a few friends we hadn't seen for a while one year online which had a montage of us & our pets on but didn't realise until they arrived that they were single sheet not folded so you had to write on the back & you couldn't stand them up! Serves me right for trying to impose our faces on people's mantelpieces! - I only ordered them because they were a free offer p&p only- honest! |
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Post by Geranium on Nov 28, 2014 6:25:57 GMT
That would be a good idea Geranium, a good kick up the pants would work Oh Rosie, I had in mind a more gentle reminder, but if you insist! |
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Post by Cherry on Nov 28, 2014 8:50:52 GMT
A great sense of humour as usual SueA. I hate, hate writing Christmas cards, yet they are organized in a pretty box with last year's Christmas card list. My old ones are cut up and used for shopping lists after the names have been written down. |
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Post by SueA on Nov 28, 2014 9:14:26 GMT
That's a good idea Cherry , I always have good intentions & think I'll do what I used to do when I was little & cut an interesting section out of the front of the old card, punch a hole in it & thread with string or ribbon to use it as a gift card but I usually get lazy & use stick on labels & put the cards either in collection boxes for the Woodland Trust if there are any in the shops I go in or if I don't see any they end up in the council recycling bin. |
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Post by Rosie on Nov 28, 2014 9:19:50 GMT
That would be a good idea Geranium, a good kick up the pants would work Oh Rosie, I had in mind a more gentle reminder, but if you insist! Well Geranium...you certainly won't miss |
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Post by Geranium on Nov 29, 2014 6:00:22 GMT
OK, straight after Christmas when they're reduced.  Yesterday I made my list of what I'd bought and what I still need to get. Scary! |
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I don't want to move to 'Christmas emails' but the price of stamps makes sending cards a very expensive thing to do these days. 
Has anyone else noticed that Christmas cards have gone all 'PC'. Lots don't say 'Happy Christmas' anymore, its 'festive greetings'! I like the more traditional cards with snowy scenes, robins and holly and definitely not loads of glitter, but looking round M&S this morning I couldn't find any that I liked. I'll have to try the garden centre they had a better selection last year.
I hand-deliver all the local ones. 
I got some photo ones printed once to send to family & a few friends we hadn't seen for a while one year online which had a montage of us & our pets on but didn't realise until they arrived that they were single sheet not folded so you had to write on the back & you couldn't stand them up! Serves me right for trying to impose our faces on people's mantelpieces! 
