My mom saves stuff like that… I can call and ask if she still has any of them. I’ll update ya when I find out.
Thanks for posting that link. It makes me feel a lot better.
I don’t care one way or the other about receiving these letters, but one year, because I had heard that I wasn’t keeping in touch often enough, decided to write one of these letters. Now, one of the reasons I didn’t keep in touch was because I knew that most of these people weren’t happy for my successes and wanted to rub my nose in my failures. I didn’t need to provide any of my failures in the letter since they all had heard about them, I’m sure from others, so since it was a pretty good year, I just highlighted a few good things that were happening to me. I got the most blaring silence ever.
And this is what I came away with. Most people are like the OP poster. They don’t care about your life at all. When they say they want to keep in touch with you, they want to tell you about their life. They don’t give a hoot about yours. But I already hear much about their life from others, so why bother.
To the OP poster, perhaps you can send back a polite letter asking that you be taken off their list next year. They have obviously mistaken you for someone who is cheering their success. I know that, from my experience, I’m much more wary about who I share my successes with.
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I got ahold of one of the letters.
My mom sent me one from their new kitchen sent this year. I won’t write the whole thing here, just the interesting parts and summaries of the other paragraphs.
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sorry, typo I missed in preview.
A letter from the kitchen- reminds me of the old answering machine message that says "Hi, this is the microwave speaking. If you leave a message, I’ll stick it on the fridge so that the Smiths see it. "
Ugh! People are insane!
Is that the one where his mom realizes someone is wiping shit off on the bathroom towels and appoints David to find out who?
As far as the OP, my parents receive one from a high school friend which could be considered a parody, only he is earnestly serious. Full of malapropisms and neologisms only he could come up with. Unfortunately, the latest one was full of news about his current wife’s serious injury so it wasn’t as fun as previous years’.
I had to laugh at one of these that I received this year from my aunt.
Acual letter:
“We’re all happily involved in our activities. Will (son) is enjoying his first year in the priesthood. Elizabeth (daughter) and Michael (fiance) are happily planning their wedding for December 30th. We can’t wait to see all of you at the wedding!”
What the letter really should have said:
“We’re all rushing around like chickens with heads cut off because we’re trying to conceal a huge family secret and save face. Will is enjoying his first year in the priesthood. Elizabeth and Michael are supposedly getting married on December 30th, but actually, they got married back in August after the discovery of a surprise pregnancy, and Elizabeth is now five months along! But we probably shouldn’t tell ANYONE about that, so you’ll all find out at the shower two days before the wedding, including Aunt Anne’s very Catholic and straightlaced mother. We can’t wait to see all of you at the wedding and piss you off because of all of the secrets we’ve kept!”
E.