I love receiving Christmas cards, I like finding Christmas cards from charity shops in the January Sales - just awfully bad at writing and sending them. I tried Sue's idea of 'getting to write cards' rather than 'Got to write cards' but it still took me days to get the job done and there are many less than the 40 I once wrote and sent.
I had several years when I made some - never all- of my cards. 2015 and 2017 using 3D decoupage sheets.
In 2019 I used photographs taken of light-up picture decoration - a car-boot purchase- and put them into card blanks- in the days when all sorts of card blanks were available from Craft Creations - I do miss that company.
Since then all cards have been bought and I no longer have any Christmas card crafting bits and very few card blanks and now only have a dozen bought cards left for next year, so will need to find some in the sales.
I admire anyone who makes all the cards they send.
Very few cards have arrived via the postman/lady so far this Christmas. Instead a letter from HMRC altering my tax code again - and not in a good way - from now until the new tax year. Oh bother!
After a very expensive December with too many bills, I'd better have a very frugal January and February.
As I was deleting all the rubbish emails that had gathered in a day , I found this on the Next Door website posted by a Meryl in a village a few miles away. People post the most silly of things on this website which was supposed to be for recommendations for builders etc
I've received a Christmas card from a relative but she forgot to put the correct postage on so I'm being charged £1.50! Am I allowed to refuse the card? Cheers
There were 25 miserable comments all saying yes refuse it! I don't think I'd refuse - it might have a letter or a gift card inside!
Your homemade cards look lovely. I also have many supplies for card making which I very rarely do, time to face up to the fact and donate them so someone else can use them. We are also sending far fewer cards this year, the postage is now too expensive.
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When postage is much more than the cost of a card it's difficult to see how the tradition can carry on - sadly. I would miss getting cards to cheer up the room.
DeleteSo you refuse the card and it's sent back to the sender, who now knows that their relationship is not worth £1.25 to you?
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't me refusing the card! someone on the Nextdoor website who I thought mean and silly posting the message.
DeleteI would have paid and not mentioned it.(and it was £1.50 actually if you can read properly!)
Putting the wrong stamp on a card, or even missing it off altogether is so easily done! Like you, I would have paid up and with an understanding smile.
ReplyDeleteI send cards because I like receiving them... and also because there are many older friends and relatives now in their late eighties and nineties who appreciate being remembered. The writing of them all seems a chore, but the receiving more than makes up for it.
We have paid our £1.50 for an item to arrive today, we think it's from hubby's older brother, he also put the wrong stamp on my birthday card, hubby will have a word with his sister who lives with him and suggest he gets smaller cards or pay more postage.
ReplyDeleteYes, postage is expensive but as my husband reminded me, it would cost a good deal more if you wanted to hand deliver your cards! When you think that you can post a card to anywhere in the UK for the same price, perhaps it seems better value? (That's how I am looking at it, anyway). I always enjoy receiving something nice in the post.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes
Ellie
I had a £1.50 excess postage fee to pay recently. I had put a note in with my Christmas card to an old friend asking if she knew what had happened to another friend who I hadn't heard from for a couple of years. She had a card sealed up and ready to send to me so just wrote me a note and put them both into a new envelope, which was just over the small letter size. She did know about our mutual friend, so I was very glad I had paid the excess postage or I would never have found out.
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful cards!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I have pretty much stopped 'hard copy' cards now and send online ones instead. I know you can't display them but I found them a pain and never had enough space for them. And they kept blowing over! :-) xx
We are in the middle of change as far as Xmas cards are concerned. Postage is hellish and either we can buy on the net through card companies, at again exorbitant prices or fudge up something of our own making through email. There again there is always Jacquie Lawson...
ReplyDeleteI used to make Christmas cards but don't any longer. I would have paid the £1.50, too. We all make mistakes.
ReplyDeleteNo cards sent from this house for 8 years now (my FB re I died me today). We have both had letters this week from the taxman but can’t work out what the extra hit is for. Catriona
ReplyDeleteI cant work out that bracket Catriona! I hope its a typo and not a bereavement
DeleteOur village post office in Leicester would let you know they were holding something which needed excess paying - but NOT let you see it to establish what it was. Once or twice I paid up for trivial mail I didn't need/want!
ReplyDeleteI was on the phone to HMRC, last week, as they had wrongly estimated my tax code. I almost lost the will to live had it not been for a very knowledgeable and efficient lady who sorted it all out for me.
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very happy Christmas! 🎄🎅🌲🧑🎄