Lifestyle: holidays: Christmas cards

Self-tutoring about holiday habits: the tutor mentions Christmas cards.

I still send Christmas cards out via post, the “old-fashioned” way. I think Christmas is an old-fashioned holiday, anyway, and I don’t need it to be updated. Perhaps that’s why I continue with the Christmas cards tradition.

Perhaps I should check what the etiquette is, but I’ve tended to send them to people until I don’t get one back. Many people faithfully send one to me every year; sometimes it’s the only contact I have with them.

The other day, while writing this year’s Christmas cards, I decided to phone someone who didn’t send me back a Christmas card around a decade or more ago. I was nervous, wondering if they were angry at me for something. Not at all, it turned out; rather, we had a really nice chat. They revealed that they never send Christmas cards because it’s such a busy time of year.

My wife takes it one step further, proclaiming that most single men don’t send Christmas cards. She’s seldom wrong.

So perhaps, if a married couple has stopped returning one’s Christmas cards, one may indeed be off the VIP list.

Seasons greetings, and best of luck with those Christmas cards:)