I think I'm going to get writers cramp. lol x
2007-12-10 06:48:43 · 46 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
One hundred and flipping fifty. I wrote them this afternoon to keep myself busy as I am trying to stop smoking. I wrote cards to people I haven't heard from for years, in order to not have a cigarette.
2007-12-11 05:53:55 · answer #1 · answered by Yoda 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-12-10 08:37:19 · answer #2 · answered by gidget 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this is the way he has always been, this is the way he always will be. I'm surprised you receive a Christmas card every year! (And I'm surprised you want to maintain contact after he bled your mother dry... it's a positive indication of the kind of person YOU are.) There are some people who just keep their families at arm's length. (I have a family member like that.) Appreciate the "relationship" you have with him for what it is, and concentrate on bonds with other people. You seem to be taking it personally, when it sounds like he's just naturally that way (weird, lol) with family. He obviously wants to maintain some kind of tie, if he updated you on his new address and his phone number. And you seem to resent that you put a lot of effort every year into a card, and he doesn't. If that's the case, then just start sending a simple card. But... if you enjoy doing the note with the update on your life, then go ahead. Enjoy that. If that brings you joy to do that. But just don't expect anything from him. He probably says "nothing new here" because that's his idea of returning the update. hehe It's just how he is. I say accept it. And no, don't mock him with the "nothing new here" phrase. Starting tension from thousands of miles away? There's nothing to be gained from that. You've taken the high road for a long time, no sense in stopping.
2016-05-22 21:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We haven't written any out yet but we will be posting 5 for neighbours, plus another 5 for family. We like to post the cards for neighbours for 2 reasons...we think it's nice for our neighbours to receive mail, much nicer than doing them by hand and we also do it through the Scouts. They have a collection point in town and then they deliver them. And secondly, no-one knows who we have given cards to which is a necessary step with one or two neighbours that we wouldn't wish on our worst enemy - the last time we went round with cards we had no end of problems with the not-so-nice neighbours demanding to know why we'd not given them a card! We aren't the only people who live round here who do what we do. It is very sad that even at this time of year some folk are still anti-social and bullies.
2007-12-10 08:28:27 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hi Sylvia!! Nice to hear from you! I have used the free Hallmark Ecards for the most part and need to get going on the written ones! This way though I have so few more to actually write! I know it isn't like the old days when my mom would send like 300 but then again we don't nor can I afford to live like the old days in terms of sending cards. lol! xoxo
2007-12-10 11:58:26 · answer #5 · answered by Meeshmai 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm with you on the writer's cramp. My hands even cramp miserably when I'm trying to eat or cut my meat.
I'm working on our Christmas letter, but it isn't finished yet. Being of "senior" years, our lives aren't giong to excite anyone, but at least they know what we've been doing in the past 11 months.
2007-12-10 08:29:04 · answer #6 · answered by felines 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't usually write Christmas,New Year's, Birthdays or any holiday cards to anyone. This year though I think that is going to change with all the neat and wonderful people I have met on this site and I now have a few addresses so I can send them a card this year in thanks and they have mine too!!
2007-12-10 11:08:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
5,got a few more to send,i only send to people who send me one,i am not going to waste a stamp on some one who gives nothing in return.for 10 years i sent a friend a christmas card and for 10 years i never received one from her,so this year she will be surprised when she wont get one from me at all.she is a old misery who wont spend a dollar on a box of cards or buy stamps but she spends hundreds of dollars on booze weekly.
2007-12-10 07:35:48 · answer #8 · answered by alcaholicdemon 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
30 or 40, quite a few since I'm a fair way from my friends nowadays. Rather than just saying 'merry Christmas', I thought it was fair that I take the plunge and grow up a little this year, and so I've compiled a list and sent my cards off early. =oD
2007-12-10 06:59:35 · answer #9 · answered by Fireʍɐʇǝɹ 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I send most by email now, except to people who haven't got computers. It sounds awful, I know, but after loosing in excess of 5 Million dollars, and everything else I owned, I now live on $450 (Aus) every two weeks. So It just works out cheaper.
But next year will be different.
2007-12-10 08:05:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋