Least Favorite Style of Holiday Cards

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by LucyKKG

My family gets a kick out of those. My step-dad will usually read it aloud for all of us and insert his own sarcastic commentary. It's pretty freaking funny.

We have a family member who sends out a letter every year that is generally questionable.

One year, he compared his grown daughter's divorce that year to the amputation of a gangrenous limb.

Would that I were kidding.

[AGDee]

I like the holiday letters too because they help me keep up on what's going on in their lives. I do a holiday letter but it only goes to the people who I know care about what my kids are doing... like aunts and uncles, my mom's cousins, my cousins, and my best friends from grade school. I send out about 40 cards and the holiday letter goes into maybe half of those.

I also don't like when everything is pre-printed. There are a few people who aren't on Facebook and who don't write anything extra who I would really like to hear more from. The glitter/confetti ones are definitely annoying.

[ASTalumna06]

When it comes to sending out weird/inappropriate Christmas cards, my stepmom takes the cake.

Last year, she sent this card:



... which contained a printed poem in it about "giving a little Jesus" this Christmas. I'm sure you could probably find the poem online if you Googled it. I'm not very religious, and I understand that she is... but is it me? Is this not weird? What I loved most is that she wrote in my name above the poem, and then signed underneath it "Love Dad and Stepmom" (using her actual name, which I won't post here). Nothing else. I'd hate to see what they did for people who aren't their children..

Originally Posted by Xidelt

Updates about your twenty-something kids. Shouldn't they send out their own cards at this point?

Worse than receiving updates about the twenty-something kids... receiving one of those picture cards with the twenty-something kids on it. I don't see or talk to my dad and stepmom much, and yet this year, they sent a card with a picture of the two of them and me and my brother together.. from my brother's basic training graduation. We're both in our mid-to-late twenties, and besides that, I'm sending out my own Christmas cards this year.

This is something that you do when your kids are 4 and 6.. Not 24 and 26...

[Low C Sharp]

I HATE when people use the letter as an excuse to brag about their kids.

THANK YOU!! An update is not the same as a resume. "Susie is still enjoying her dance involvement" is an update. "Susie placed fourth in the statewide snowflake competition and won the trophy for Best Pirouette and first runner-up in Arabesque technique" is NOT an update, it's bragging. Also, no one cares.

Ditto the contrast between "Billy is looking forward to enrolling at Duke next fall" and "Billy had such a tough time deciding between Duke, Dartmouth, Georgetown, and a full scholarship at Vanderbilt that blah blah blah..." In brief, we're so blessed, and you're not.
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[kddani]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

THANK YOU!! An update is not the same as a resume. "Susie is still enjoying her dance involvement" is an update. "Susie placed fourth in the statewide snowflake competition and won the trophy for Best Pirouette and first runner-up in Arabesque technique" is NOT an update, it's bragging. Also, no one cares.

Ditto the contrast between "Billy is looking forward to enrolling at Duke next fall" and "Billy had such a tough time deciding between Duke, Dartmouth, Georgetown, and a full scholarship at Vanderbilt that blah blah blah..." In brief, we're so blessed, and you're not.

That's part of the reasons I hate those letters, they're so show-offy and competitive.

Also, who cares if little Jimmy got braces or had a difficult time adjusting to middle school? And btw, I can see the braces in the picture, so really, leave the poor kid to his braces hell.

[agzg]

Have any of you read the Holiday Newsletter from David Sedaris' Holidays on Ice?

He also reads it in an episode of This American Life. It's episode #87, "A Very Special Sedaris Christmas."

It's the second story AFTER Ira's intro. Starts at roughly 14:50.