Christmas Procrastination Discussion!
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
United States
December 7, 2017 5:50am CST
I bought 2 packages of Christmas cards before Thanksgiving this year. I probably have a box or 2 in my Christmas storage boxes that I bought on clearance last year too.
The grand plan was to have them ready to mail the day before Thanksgiving. Yeah, that didn't happen. So, I set my sights on the week after Thanksgiving. Um, nope, still didn't happen.
To this day, I have only mailed 4 cards and addressed a few more to send out. Guess I best get a move on before they become after Christmas cards.
Do you procrastinate on getting cards out, or do you not send them at all?
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@Juliaacv (48528)
• Canada
7 Dec 17
I no longer send out cards, I just quit a few years ago.
I used to sit down with a cup of coffee and do out all of my cards every year on Remembrance Day, which is Nov 11th. Then I'd put them into the mail the last week of November as I always wanted them to arrive for December 1st. And surprisingly enough I had a few people tell me that they didn't turn their calendars the year that I stopped sending them because they couldn't believe that the new month was there and our card wasn't.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
We would always receive our first card the day after Thanksgiving from my dear departed cousin Diana. I miss receiving those cards.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
I have often bought cards in the past that were on clearance. Now I have to locate them. I usually put them in with the Christmas decorations. Haven't dug through them yet. I made out 2 more cards last night and need to get a move on if I am going to get them out by this weekend.
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@JudyEv (326467)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Dec 17
@ElusiveButterfly I did five at a time then I'd have a break.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
The cost of stamps has gone up over the years. There was a time when I sent out almost 75-100 cards and received them in return. Now I get a handful. To date we only have 3 cards on display. One is from my husband's employer.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
9 Dec 17
@Ithink I have them on display in the dining room. I wrote out a few more yesterday and plan on getting them in today's mail.
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@Ithink (9980)
• United States
9 Dec 17
@ElusiveButterfly I know that one, but then I don't send them out anymore. I used to like to take them thou and put them up along the round archway in the living room.
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@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
9 Dec 17
I STILL haven't sent out Christmas cards, they're all made off and I have yet to send them out. I only send out a handful to the people who live out of town but I am really horrible at having them sent out. I still have to send out stuff that I was supposed to send like a year ago. I am horrible with this kind of thing, usually, I manage to send them out and they get to who they are meant to go to like a few days before Christmas lol.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
10 Dec 17
Hi Sissy! I have a bunch to mail tomorrow. Just need to put a stamp on them.
Hope all is well with you and your famiky!
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
10 Dec 17
@sissy15 getting ready for Christmas always bogs me down. Have only a few more gifts to buy and I am done. Have to bake cookies tonight and get them in tomorrow's mail.
@sissy15 (12269)
• United States
10 Dec 17
@ElusiveButterfly I will probably be sending mine out this week. Ours already have stamps put on them and we just have to send them out. Thank you, we are doing ok, hope all is well with you and yours too.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
8 Dec 17
Mine are all mailed out and done. Hopefully I remembered everyone lol
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
Years ago I was so well organized that I had a list with addresses ready for the following year. All that sent cards the previous year were on the list. I would still send one to those that I didn't receive a card from too.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
14 Dec 17
@BelleStarr I have to get a new address book!
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
9 Dec 17
@ElusiveButterfly I do keep the cards from one year to the next but basically, I use my address book.
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@DesirousDreamer (34780)
• Peoria, Arizona
7 Dec 17
Everything is ending up taking more time than I expected haha I haven't been procrastinating, I just bit off more than I can chew.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
Seems to be the same way with me. I have quite a few knitting projects going too and have little time to breath lately.
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
@DesirousDreamer better to do a little at a time.
@DesirousDreamer (34780)
• Peoria, Arizona
8 Dec 17
@ElusiveButterfly I am letting myself a day break after each project or else my hands would be destroyed.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
7 Dec 17
I don't get cards out anymore, it always ends up being the same way. I have good intentions but it never ends up happening.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
One year I had my children do the cards. They loved making them out too!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
10 Dec 17
A few years back I didn't send out any and felt a little sad about it. This year I am trying, but am really slow at it. I should have sat down at the table before Thanksgiving and started them. Oh well, best laid plans of mice and men so they say.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
I received yours! Thank you! Wish I were more on the ball with getting them out.
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@just4him (307773)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
8 Dec 17
@ElusiveButterfly I'm glad you got it. I'll be glad to get it when you send it.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
I have pared down my list substantially.
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@rina110383 (24495)
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7 Dec 17
Not sending out Christmas cards anymore, stopped decades ago.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
There was a year that I didn't send out any. I was very depressed. Felt badly for not sending out a few cards.
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@Happy2BeMe (99390)
• Canada
7 Dec 17
I received my card yesterday! Thank you! Yours will be going out this weekend. I am the at procastinating..Its my middle name....
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
We must be related! LOL. I really need to sit down and get these dang cards made out!
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@Happy2BeMe (99390)
• Canada
8 Dec 17
@ElusiveButterfly I have to do that this weekend...no if ands or buts about it!
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
I have set my goal to get them done this weekend too.
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
I have received a few ecards and I really don't care for them.
@Morleyhunt (21746)
• Canada
7 Dec 17
I don't tend to send out cards....but I did mail a parcel yesterday...does that count?
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
I have only one parcel that I send out to my grandson and his half-siblings. Have to bake some cookies this weekend and get them mailed out to him.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Dec 17
I will get them done this weekend.
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@bigshow9773 (651)
• Edgewood, Maryland
9 Dec 17
I try to get all that stuff down so its not a rush to get everything out in a rush job and the mail sucks here
