# Holiday cards **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 17, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508 "2011-12-17T06:24:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ProbablyProcrastinating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@ProbablyProcrastinating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProbablyProcrastinating)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/1 "2011-12-17T06:24:08Z")
What is on your seasonal cards, if any, this year? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/2 "2011-12-17T06:33:49Z")
My kids. I’m that parent. ---
**Author:** ![ProbablyProcrastinating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@ProbablyProcrastinating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProbablyProcrastinating)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/3 "2011-12-17T07:06:35Z")
I should have said, aside from graphics. By “nothing” I did not mean, a blank white card. I was more imagining a picture of a dove or a nativity or a menorah or something with a personal note on the inside / back. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/4 "2011-12-17T08:26:04Z")
I create my own Christmas cards and try to throw in a little humor each year with a combo of graphics/text. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/5 "2011-12-17T13:57:57Z")
I use more than one box, as well as leftovers from previous years. They will all mention Christmas somewhere, whether it’s Merry Christmas, or Blessed Christmas, or some other Christmas greeting. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/6 "2011-12-17T14:13:37Z")
Peace/Joy/Happy holidays for cards to my clients. I’ll add personalised notes if I know someone is serious about Christmas (in a religious way) or Hanukkah or some other holiday that occurs around now. Cards for friends and family (if I give them at all) are more personal and quirky. I often use dorky photos of my dogs wearing Santa hats or wearing Christmassy-themed bandanas on my cards. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/7 "2011-12-17T19:27:51Z")
I quit sending cards a few years back. At that point, I was just sending them to a few of my husband’s aunts who we never saw and two of whom I’d never met. Before that, I used to write the long letter - newsy, not braggy, since we don’t do much that’s brag-worthy. So far this year, I’ve received 3 - and one of those was from a pet sitting service I used 6 years ago. I guess I don’t see the point any more. ---
**Author:** ![ProbablyProcrastinating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@ProbablyProcrastinating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProbablyProcrastinating)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-cards/606508/8 "2011-12-20T09:26:24Z")
Fascinating. So many people don’t send cards. Maybe I should quit.