# What uncommon holiday cards do you send? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991 "2005-11-14T14:53:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ProTem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@ProTem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProTem)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/1 "2005-11-14T14:53:37Z")
_ **Definition for this thread: Uncommon is any card you send but never receive.** _ Could be those New Years and Winters Solstace cards. Arbor day? Flag Day? President Ford’s birthday? My daughter sends cards on Earth day and also the town’s Founders Day postcards the local booster club gives out at the street fair each year. Never gets any in return. My brother-in-law sends reverse-birthday cards. He says he can’t be organized enough to send everyone in the family birthday cards on their birthdays, so he sends them all on his own birthday. ---
**Author:** ![polljoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3be4f8/32.png) [@polljoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polljoe)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/2 "2005-11-14T18:17:35Z")
I send St. Pat’s cards and Halloween cards, and never get any back. Wish I did. But then I tend to buy the school’s all-holiday pack. ---
**Author:** ![power\_sawyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@power\_sawyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/power_sawyer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/3 "2005-11-14T21:26:36Z")
I go to those e-card sites and send stuff just on the odder holidays. Hugging day, League of Nations day… And they have some of the funniest jokes for those. And I’m planning to send some for National Shelter Dog Month. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/4 "2005-11-14T21:35:21Z")
I email all my veteran and active-duty friends on or around Veteran’s Day. They really appreciate being remembered. I do too. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/5 "2005-11-14T21:49:25Z")
I’ve sent a card on the feast of Saint Agnes (21 January). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/6 "2005-11-14T21:51:18Z")
Does it count as uncommon that I stopped sending holiday cards? My Wife never has and I stopped a few years after our marriage. Jim ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/7 "2005-11-14T22:31:12Z")
One year, after I sent no Christmas cards, I sent a few Groundhog Day cards. I made them on Print Shop. I used the program’s image of a tyrannosaur, and added the caption, “Eek! A groundhog!” Inside, it wished the reader a happy Groundhog Day. ---
**Author:** ![power\_sawyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@power\_sawyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/power_sawyer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/8 "2005-11-15T15:04:49Z")
> [@ProTem](#): > > My brother-in-law sends reverse-birthday cards. He says he can’t be organized enough to send everyone in the family birthday cards on their birthdays, so he sends them all on his own birthday. I wonder what his family makes of that. He must be the colorful one in every family. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/9 "2005-11-15T19:29:43Z")
[Winter street scene](http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ppmsc/00200/00240r.jpg). Woodstock, Vermont, 1940. Silent night, secular night. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-uncommon-holiday-cards-do-you-send/330991/10 "2005-11-15T21:13:04Z")
Happy Genoclone Day! It’s been 40 years since your enception. Your not old, your doner is.