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Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 06 3:25 pm Post subject:

jamsam wrote:

subject close to my heart..or wallet..
ive made 5 and sent them today (two international) and thats it..i refuse to let the kids take any to school, but how do i let the parents know that instead of me looking like a complete non- festive git??

i was going to send a big charity card into school for all the teachers syaing i dont want to send any this year..but im sure the boys will be nagging me..arrghh

That's the issue isn't it - letting people know you're not ignoring them

I will do the tree thing, the woodland trust do some sposor a sapling things, so I'll do that instead. But how do I tell my great neices and nephews that Great Aunty Penny is not ignoring them - she's planted a tree instead. I could send them a card of course

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 06 3:41 pm Post subject:

I like the idea of e-cards / emails, but too often they take ages to download and the animations don't work (on dial-up). This really annoys me, and completely detracts from the sender's intention. I end up cursing folk I otherwise love dearly.

I make my own cards. There are a lot of people I don't see that often, and others who still enjoy receiving cards (mainly older people).

But I too would not send cards to people I see daily etc.

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
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Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 06 4:00 pm Post subject:

Penny wrote:

But how do I tell my great neices and nephews that Great Aunty Penny is not ignoring them - she's planted a tree instead. I could send them a card of course

Skype them?

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 06 4:08 pm Post subject:

hedgewitch wrote:

Penny wrote:

But how do I tell my great neices and nephews that Great Aunty Penny is not ignoring them - she's planted a tree instead. I could send them a card of course

Skype them?

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 06 9:09 pm Post subject:
I only send cards to people I won't see, but would like to (reletives in far flung places) everyone who's remotely up to date will get an email, saying I have donated to charity instead. I resent sending cards to people I see all the time - why can't I just say merry christmas and mean it? I like the tree idea, and I might make a gingerbread house to take to work this year.

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Nov 28, 06 9:24 pm Post subject:
I do the tin of biscuits at work. Do you think it's acceptable to ask them all not to send me cards. I just find it ridiculous and pointless.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Tue Nov 28, 06 9:26 pm Post subject:

ruby wrote:

I do the tin of biscuits at work. Do you think it's acceptable to ask them all not to send me cards. I just find it ridiculous and pointless.

I started having the conversation with the staff in the shop today - they looked at me as if I was nuts

Well I hope they like their pressies, they're not getting cards

cir3ngirl

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 4846
Location: Cirencester

Posted: Wed Nov 29, 06 7:16 am Post subject:
My thinking this year was why go with the school flow and write a crad for every child in both boys class. So this year we are buying 16 ducks through Christian Aid. The eggs can be sold, bartered and the duck eaten. We will cut out feather shapes from recycled paper with a short message on to let everyone know what we have done. Maybe next year others will do the same.

Leonie

Joined: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 731
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 06 8:54 pm Post subject:
I like the planting a tree idea and also the bowl of sweets idea for work. I'm sending e-cards this year, I quite like the ones Jaqui Lawson does.

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Sat Dec 02, 06 8:54 am Post subject:
They look lovely.

Suzie

Joined: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 206

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 06 7:31 pm Post subject:

I had this conversation with a good friend today - she nearly dumped her boyfriend (first christmas together) because he suggested not buying each other cards

Her logic was that a card showed he loved her because he would have had to personally choose one. Never mind that he picks her up at the drop of a hat in the wee small hours from a nightclub when she's sloshed, or that he sits thru DVDS of her showing her horse when he has no interest in horses himself, or that he went out to a late night chemist when she had a cold (sniffle) at 2:00am just to get her some nightnurse......or many other examples of all the things he does that show he cares much more than a "cheap" commercialised piece of tat
Sometimes I just want to shake her

Suzie

CP

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Posts: 139
Location: S Glos

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 06 7:43 pm Post subject:
If you go to the Cancer Research website, you can order free of charge a wall size poster, with lots of christmas piccies on it and lots of blanks that you can write your greeting on. They come with cardboard donation boxes. Thats what we are doing at work this year. The idea is to "buy a blank, make a donation and the charity benefits. So do trees

LynneA

Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 06 7:48 pm Post subject:

At my old job, it became the norm to send an all staff email. I guess with us being a multicultural organisation, staff and client wise, it became more of an end-of-year thing than Christmas.

I used to put together a short, world weary review of the year, and find an amusing piccy to accompany it - usually of a political figure looking less than smart. Cherie was always useful for that.

We used to have Secret Santa, but the male members of staff were useless at choosing pressies, so I instigated a charity bran tub. You got as many goes as the pressies you provided. Anything above that, you paid into the client welfare fund. The fact that my journey into work took me past the Liverpool Street branch of Lush was very useful for that.

Beckyess

Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Posts: 1076
Location: Worcestershire

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 06 7:51 pm Post subject:
Try this E-Card Main Site Jacquie Lawson Becky

hedgewitch

Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Posts: 5834
Location: Daft wench GHQ

Posted: Thu Dec 07, 06 10:19 am Post subject:

Penny wrote:

ruby wrote:

I do the tin of biscuits at work. Do you think it's acceptable to ask them all not to send me cards. I just find it ridiculous and pointless.

I started having the conversation with the staff in the shop today - they looked at me as if I was nuts

Well I hope they like their pressies, they're not getting cards

It always makes me think of counting your christmas cards at school to see how popular you were

I really think adults should've moved on. I snapped last year when one of the Sales guys at the company I was working at flew down to tell me that a prospect had sent him a card, and what did I think she meant by it? Did she like him enough to place an order?

I'm afraid I suggested quite forcibly that he should stop right there and listen to himself

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