# How many Christmas/Holiday cards have or will you send out this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375 "2010-12-16T16:45:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/21 "2010-12-17T08:16:11Z")
Zero. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/22 "2010-12-17T08:59:48Z")
> [@rhubarbarin](#): > > I don’t send out Christmas cards… or Christmas wishes. I guess I’m kind of a scrooge. I don’t even decorate for holidays. Same here, except I’m not as much as scrooge as I am TOO FREAKING BUSY AT WORK to even bother. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/23 "2010-12-17T09:43:09Z")
> [@Wilbo523](#): > > Title pretty much describes the question. > > I dropped off 150 at the post office this morning. Jesus holy hell! If I were single, it’d be zero. As it stands, maybe four. MAYBE. Joe ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/24 "2010-12-17T12:42:42Z")
Zero. I’ve opted out. ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/25 "2010-12-17T14:09:38Z")
About 35. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/26 "2010-12-17T14:14:37Z")
20 or so this year. I’m exhausted and don’t feel like sending one to every single person in my address book just for the heck of it. I stuck to immediate family, a couple of friends… mostly only the people who I know would be disappointed **not** to get a card from me. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/27 "2010-12-17T14:22:17Z")
Our list is down to about 12. You get a 2 year grace period of not reciprocating, before you get edited off the list. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/28 "2010-12-17T20:53:00Z")
About forty I think. Mostly Christmas cards and a few ‘other’ in there to round it out. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/29 "2010-12-17T21:07:12Z")
1. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/30 "2010-12-17T21:17:54Z")
I don’t like kids or dogs too much…but I love those cards with your kids or your dogs on them. Why? I don’t know why, to be honest. But I am all sad when I don’t get them. I think they are the best thing ever. If my gecko would tolerate a Santa hat and if I could find a small enough one I’d totally do the same. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/31 "2010-12-17T21:34:27Z")
I put 17 cards in the mail this week, and I will hand-deliver one on Monday evening. I have a few extras in case I get unexpected cards, but I’m not planning to send out any more this year. I think this is the smallest number of cards I’ve ever sent out. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/32 "2010-12-17T22:40:37Z")
None. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/33 "2010-12-17T22:47:59Z")
None - haven’t sent any out in years. I used to get all the relatives and include a note, but I got tired of it, so I just quit. I think this year, we’ve received 4, so apparently our relatives feel the same way, or they’ve taken us off their lists since we don’t send. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/34 "2010-12-17T23:03:37Z")
Sent 0, and so far, received 0. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/35 "2010-12-17T23:27:25Z")
Same as the OP - between 150 and 200. We’ll receive about that many, if the USPS forwards our mail the way it’s supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/36 "2010-12-18T00:58:27Z")
none. haven’t for years. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/37 "2010-12-18T01:30:19Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Right near 120, I know because of the stamps. That’s almost exactly our number. Friends and family. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/38 "2010-12-21T07:53:25Z")
About 50 to Germany (at 95 cents per stamp!) and about 40 in the US. So just under 100. We used to send about 200, so this is progress. We sent the cards to Germany a tad late this year, and now with the huge storms and closed airports, I have the feeling those cards will arrive about February 10th. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/39 "2010-12-21T16:09:39Z")
Ammending my answer to zero. I’m ashamed of myself but the time just got away from me. Cookies are way behind schedule, too. Phooey ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375/40 "2010-12-21T18:49:51Z")
Stopped doing them in 1988, IIRC. We don’t display the few incoming that still show up, either. But, speaking as a postal worker, I’d like to express my thanks to people such as the OP, who top out at over one hundred! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-christmas-holiday-cards-have-or-will-you-send-out-this-year/564375.md?page=3)