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

 

[PhædrusR]

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..

If the price of postage was too much, but they gave the equivalent amount to charity instead, why didn't they send cards to you all instead?!
Unless it was a smaller token amount they gave to charity.

 

[PhædrusR]

I used to do sometimes send Funky Pigeon cards to relatives and some friends, for birthdays, anniversaries, Xmas, but when you get no acknowledgement or thank you, no reply call or email, you realise you're wasting your time with unappreciative recipients.