Christmas Cards

[poliphilo]

We're not sending Christmas cards this year. Ailz says it's because she wants to give the money we'll save to a deserving charity. I say it's because I just don't want to.

Christmas cards belong to an age before there were Facebook and Twitter- and the telephone- and all those other new-fangled ways we have of keeping in touch. The sending of cards has become a socially-enforced ritual. There's very little joy in it.

Ailz's mother says we should at least send cards to family. I say family- the people with whom we're most frequently in touch- are the last people we should bother with.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You take the writing of cards a lot more seriously than I have ever done. I agree it makes a world of difference if the card contains a personal note.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Roy was at one time working in an industry in which sending large quantities of preprinted cards was de riguer, and I got in the spreadsheet habit. Now I also track who gets my annual crocheted snowflake. [Edit: that's so I know when I can stop making the damn things.]