When do you remove someone from your holiday card list?

**alienhost** · 12-19-2006, 01:09 PM

What is everyone doing as far as "knocking" someone off their holiday card list? I keep a list so I know who I sent them to each year and there are a bunch of people who don't send us cards. I was thinking of two consecutive years of not receiving a card in return.

BTW I don't send cards just to receive cards, but it seems like it's nice for others to acknowledge your thoughtfulness etc.

What is everyone elses "policy"?

PS I didn't find a similar thread, please let me know if there is one

**DallasLady** · 12-19-2006, 08:46 PM

Some people I know I will never get a card back from (like my granfather) yet I will always send him one. But I am getting just a little annoyed at how few people send cards. Each year I get less and less. Next year I am going to cut my list down to about half. Those who I know are "into" Christmas cards, either by the fact that they acknowledge the card, or send one in return, will get one. Many people don't even care, so I am not going to waste my time and energy.

(After sending out 40 cards and getting 8 back so far, I am feeling just a wee bit jaded)

**TX Sweetheart** · 12-19-2006, 09:21 PM

Yeah I pretty much cut mine down to family and my godparents plus the CC card exchange because no one else sends cards anymore!

**1_mommy** · 12-20-2006, 12:05 AM

after sending out cards the last 5 years, i decided last year i was cutting my list down. i wrote down everyone who i had received a card from last year, and then those people will be recieivng one from us this year, along with the new cards we get this year, and certian people who i know don't send cards, but they mean alot to us.

the cost of postage just got to be to much to send 50+ cards out, and then thank you for my kids gifts, so that was my reasoning for cutting down my list

**rubyslippers** · 12-20-2006, 01:36 AM

I really don't cut people from my list. I don't even keep track of who sends cards each year. I send them because I like to, it makes me feel good to get them out.

**greenbunny** · 12-20-2006, 06:14 AM

I don't cut people if I know they just don't "do" cards, but they're people I'm fairly close with. I do cut people if they used to send me cards and then didn't two years in a row. And some people I've cut out of sheer confusion--family members moving and giving no forwarding address, people in a broken marriage where I'm not sure who kept the house, etc.

**Kimberland30** · 12-20-2006, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by rubyslippers

I really don't cut people from my list. I don't even keep track of who sends cards each year. I send them because I like to, it makes me feel good to get them out.

Ditto. I send them out because I want to. There are quite a few people (friends mostly) that we don't receive cards from but it doesn't bother me. Spending $20 in postage once year to let people know we are thinking about them doesn't seem like a high price to me.

But just like greenbunny, there are some people that I don't send cards to because I don't know their new address (and don't talk to them on a regular basis to get it from them).

**jennylou** · 12-20-2006, 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by 1_mommy

after sending out cards the last 5 years, i decided last year i was cutting my list down. i wrote down everyone who i had received a card from last year, and then those people will be recieivng one from us this year, along with the new cards we get this year, and certian people who i know don't send cards, but they mean alot to us.

the cost of postage just got to be to much to send 50+ cards out, and then thank you for my kids gifts, so that was my reasoning for cutting down my list

I ALWAYS due cards. Love doing them and receiving them. Last year I didn't do them, b/c I didn't want to even celebrate anything. So, don't cut people for just one slip, especially if you know that they had a major event that year.

I only cut people when I can't find addresses.

**vwinkel** · 12-20-2006, 08:42 AM

Some people don't send Christmas cards. This is the first year that I have. I'm not about to cut someone off the list just because they didn't send one back.

They are off the list if I'm not friends with them. Otherwise, everyone on my list gets one (if I'm doing them again next year).

**Charlotte81** · 12-20-2006, 09:22 AM

I don't cut people from my list. Card sending is a holiday tradition for me, and my list of people to send to only gets larger and larger every year. It doesn't bother me if people don't send a card in return.