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Christmas cards

In case anyone is wondering, I’m not sending any Christmas cards this year. After discussing the matter with a friend recently, I decided it would be much better to take the money I would have spent on cards and stamps, and donate it to charity instead. So I hope you aren’t offended by not receiving a card.

December 21, 2007     2 comments     Announcement

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Not offended at all, in fact I'm glad that you did this - nice work.

I am biased because I have a personal loathing of Christmas cards - I hate writing them and find that when people send me a card I feel obliged to write back just because I feel guilty.

Richard Bloomfield on December 21, 2007

Another thing about Christmas cards is that, when you have lots of them to do, you can never dedicate enough time to each one to compose a personal message for each recipient, so you end up writing some boring generic message to everyone.