You’re not being miserable, I feel exactly the same way, but like you, my significant other thinks i’m boring, lacking in empathy, or just plain grumpy. My attitude to cards is this; if I don’t receive cards, or when I do they’re just filled with the usual meaningless cliches, why bother? The reason people bother mostly is because the greeting card companies have managed to convince so many that this is what’s expected of them. Not me, I’m a nonconformist! Although I have written up a guide to writing Christmas cards if anyone wants to send a belated Merry Christmas card.
http://www.carlgalloway.com/archives/229-Howto-Write-Christmas-Cards.html

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Lets face it as kids the only good card was the one with some money in it. Same as an adult really.
To be honest a quick call or an email is fine although I normally don’t even need that.
I’ve not sent cards for the last 4 years as my local Chinese postie struggles with English letters/script, in much the same way your average English postie would struggle with Chinese characters.

In this age of saving trees/whales/whatever its the perfect excuse not to send them AND look like an all round good egg.
Quick call or email instead - (right now watch some smart ass tell me all the computers and servers are doing more damage than cutting down trees).

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Oooh! Pretty cards with meaningful messages! I love to give and love to receive! Cards are such fun, you can send them to anyone, the post office even deliver them for you, and its 10 times more exciting to receive something hand delivered from the mailman than it is in that clinical emotion free void of cyberspace.

I was given my cards once, but that wasn’t much fun

I dont send Cards except to my Grandmother and thats if I remember …. i dont send Christmas Cards but moppet has to do the school thing handing them out… last year i bought a box of 100 for $2.00… should last her this year as well….. not cheap just dont see the point..
I dont buy, easter cards, Birthday cards, sympathy or any other I think if sympathy is required then a phone call goes a lot further than a card, the same for all others….

I do get them though for christmas and Birthdays and I keep everyone of them…. have boxes… the christmas one get used for christmas latterns for decos, the birthday cards are nice from the kids as they cant call… dont ask… and we email each every else…

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I’m a lazy card sender/giver. I choose a card for what’s on the outside. Like if it’s a Christmas card then one with a Christmassy scene on the front is fine with me. A Valentine card? As long as it has a heart or something all romantic on the front…. grand. I never choose a card by whatever the message is in the inside, and people tell me that’s the important bit.

I mean… if you were to go into a card shop and start actually READING the things you’d be there all day. It probably takes all of 30 seconds to choose a card by my method.

Ah well, can’ win ‘em all
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I was just having a conversation with my mother about how little letter writing is done anymore. I love recieving and sending letters as well as making my own cards. Of course I recieve more emai than anything else.

I dont think sending cards is a waste. I really appreciate the time it takes to choose the perfect card. I’m lucky my hubby surprises me often with them and flowers as well. I guess I’m just more sentimental than most.

In conclusion I send out both but I think cards are more special because it takes more effort than email.

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I must admit that I’m biased when it comes to cards, both e cards and real cards. I’m an artist, photographer and writer and not only create cards but I also have a natural affinity for the creative effort involved with the creation of cards. I love to go to card shops and spend time looking at the many different card types. When doing this it connects me directly to not only the artists and writers who made the cards but also to those people to whom I will send a card.

By the way you can find some of my work at http://www.toonpool.com/mdouble_649.html

This is a great site filled with cartoons, mine and thousands of others, all of which can be sent by email as e cards if you wish to do so. Being able to share a funny cartoon with a friend, for no other reason that just because it’s funny is, in my humble opinion, a great idea. Some of cartoons were created specifically to be sent as e cards.

I especially love funny cards that make me chuckle or sometimes belly laugh. To me sending an receiving cards is something that speaks of a relationship between sender and receiver. It’s a tangible connection that requires effort and thought. If you want to make the effort of sending a card there’s a bit of work involved, even if it’s only an e card.

For me sending a card is a bit like saying, you’re important to me. Obviously no one has to send a card and it’s for that very reason alone which makes sending a card a special statement. If the receiver laughs at the joke or is touched by the verse or moved by some nice artwork, you’ve done something to make their life a tiny bit special for even just a moment and that I think is important.

It’s unfortunate that some think of cards as being nothing more than a social obligation. The world can be a harsh angry unhappy place and cards certainly can’t change that. Isn’t it nice to know that you can be proactive, send a card and, in some very small way, make a small can connect with another human being, let them know that someone cares enough to think of them. For me it makes the world a better place if one for a second or two and that’s important.

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Well cards were invented by Prince Ablert they were, that German bloke what married Queen Victoria (sang at er funeral I did, changed the words from Crocodile Rock an it went down a storm in St Bob’s Cathedral - rippin the seats up they was) see he ad to find a way to get rid of all them trees he had killed for Xmas, so he makes em into cards right.

Well David says its not the trees we should be worried about but the poor little inks what they print on and write in em with. If that Prince Ablert hadn’t started the card craze we would still av two moons we would an that Barack Obama would’ve been president 14 years ago! It’s true!

Some cool stuff on the toonpool marvin!

Em here by the way . . . I totally agree with you about the connection and relationship between the sender and receiver. It is also the thought that someone cares enough to give it that bit of thought and go and buy a card in the first place. Email and e cards are so easy!

So yes, Jim you are in the doghouse about the cards and you had better pull your finger out for my birthday - you have been warned!!!

i have to admit to buying snail mail cards but only when i’m in england and can get hold of them! i do love them though

I love sending and receiving cards! Receiving personal snail mail makes me happy, so I enjoy passing that feeling on to others.

Then there’s my dad’s attitude, “Rather than give me a card, which is just going to end up in the trash, why don’t you just give me the two dollars instead?”

It’s ace when you’ve got kids because you get cards made for you,my daughter goes to nursery and makes cards for all occasions,last week she made a mothers/st.davids day card,daffodills galore!!!!

Darth Vader knew what Luke had got him for Fathers Day ……. He’d felt his presence!

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