Christmas presents!!!!! What I'd really like to do but don't have the guts

[Peppermint Patti]

I think, regarding cards, IF you don't get them, there's nothing you can do about it, emails and all that throughout the year, ok. BUT I do prefer cards through the post at Christmas and Birthday. It's more personal and oddly, to me anyway, shows thought and effort 'sent your way'.

I agree,my friends from school who I meet up with during the year always send cards for Birthdays and Christmas. This year one sent a WhatsApp to the group saying she wasn't sending cards as the post was too much but would give the cost of cards and postage to a charity.
I posted cards but atm I'm not responding to any messages on WhatsApp or Facebook. Petty,maybe but none of us are on the poverty line and I thought it was delivered as a fait accompli. Im still wondering if our other two friends,one in USA and the other in Australia got a card as neither are on WhatsApp or Facebook..

 

[Ant7t]

I agree,my friends from school who I meet up with during the year always send cards for Birthdays and Christmas. This year one sent a WhatsApp to the group saying she wasn't sending cards as the post was too much but would give the cost of cards and postage to a charity.
I posted cards but atm I'm not responding to any messages on WhatsApp or Facebook. Petty,maybe but none of us are on the poverty line and I thought it was delivered as a fait accompli. Im still wondering if our other two friends,one in USA and the other in Australia got a card as neither are on WhatsApp or Facebook..

I don't have a lot of people I send cards to, but when it's time, they get one. Side note: I 'met' someone on a forum. No, it wasn't one of those sorts. It was about an actor / singer (This is related to the topic). He was a 'high up' in the forum: he knew the actor. He made me a mod. Anyhoo, after about two years of online talking, he and a sidekick came over here and we met. Then I went over there to see the actor in a concert, with other forum members. Yes, still related. We were regular talkers. Then he 'downgraded' in my mind from a friend to an acquaintance. Has been since 2012. For all that, I still text him on his birthday and send a physical card at Christmas, as does he (the card). So, after all that, bestest friends or barely speaking, a card shows you still think of 'said person'. His is the only card I send abroad, so I suppose I don't dislike him that much