We stopped sending cards about 6 years ago, and we don't get many now. None of the houses that I have visited this xmas seem to have many cards. A daft tradition that costs money and is a lot of hassle. I think that people on the whole are losing interest.
Our house is now awash with tins of biscuits and a shop's worth of chocolate. We go to see Mrs A's relatives for new year and bung some biscuits/ chocs at them to get rid of a few, and theirs come back our way! We all stand there smiling with that 'oh look, more chocolates' look on our faces.
The world should wise up and stop buying all this garbage that no one wants. I eat none of the biscuits and none of the chocolates, and by January I want them out of the house! Wife and 4 kids eat quite a bit of them - too much, but we always end up literally binning some stuff.
The madness needs to stop!
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So no, not them.
Cards? Pah!
We stopped sending cards last year and now donate the equivalent amount of money we would spend to charity.
As for chocolates, I say every year about not getting any as we always end up opening them in February or later. Still bought some this year, and yes, you guessed it, they're still unopened and probably won't be for a couple of months,with the ones nobody likes being thrown in the bin.
Spend the money saved by not buying cards on more chocolate and biscuits.
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What annoys me more than anything is the sheer amount of waste packaging in most Xmas related gifts. As if cards and wrapping paper weren't bad enough (given that they all just end up getting chucked out anyway), there seems to be increasing amounts of pointless plastic packaging on everything.
I got given numerous toiletry gift sets from people, mostly with just 2 or 3 bottles/cans of stuff, yes they all came with ludicrous amounts of plastic and cardboard packaging. Completely pointless for the sake of a couple of cans of deodorant or shower gel. I dread to think the strain this puts on the recycling centres and the poor refuse collection guys in the next week or two.
I'm hoping the anxieties brought on by Blue Planet and the recent 'war on plastic' that is currently gaining momentum that manufacturers will be swayed to use lest pointless, wasteful packaging tat!