What do you think when you receive a "family news letter" enclosed with a card?

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isotope2007

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Do you like them and enjoy reading them, do you even read them? Or do you just feel slightly annoyed that you dont hear from people all year and then they send out 2 pages of bragging about how happy, perky, successful and wonderful they all are ?

Dont mean to sound nasty but no ones life is tht perfect unless the Dr has them on some damn good medication.

I know a lot of people are really busy and this makes sense to them, but personally I dont and have never cared for these family newsletters sent out with xmas cards, or honestly, family xmas photos of people I dont have photos displayed of because we arent that close to each other. I dont even send cards to anyone anymore, its costly, it holds up and delays peoples parcels and presents, and its too expensive these days.

I love Christmas and everything about it, or used to, I still love the "idea" of Christmas, but not the newsletters or photos from people you only hear from at xmas. What do y'all think?
 
I use to get them too, And the sender needed extras postage on them, Why not take that extra money and buy some poor family a good meal?
They were about how many cans of veg, they canned this fall straight from their over worked garden
and how many cows and pigs and chicken they raised and butcher and put in their freezer, and how many cords of wood they chopped and stacked
I love Christmas, I love the family movies and the music. and last year I even enjoyed all the e mails I got from all my on line buddies, and to me I hope its the same this year
. I do like face book lol
 
I think they're ridiculous. Who cares if grandma got ringworm, or if junior won 3rd place in the science fair? I think they're best therapy for the person who wrote them tho.
 
while i have never sent out a family letter, i actually do like to get them. life is so busy, its nice to get caught up in whats been happening in everyone's lives.and i dont think its a bad thing that when writing the letter, the author is able to focus on the good things the year has brought to thier family.
 
I think that if I haven't heard from you in a years time, I don't need to hear from you now. I think that if life is that perfect then you would better things to do than write a form letter to send to everyone you know.
 
My friends and I have started a tradition. We gather all our family news letters and we have a holiday get-together with a bottle or two of wine and we each get up and read them for entertainment. It may seem cruel to some, but I think it's cruel to have to read one by yourself (sometimes my eyes roll so far back in my head, I'm afraid I'll never retrieve them.) We've had so much fun....for just a little while all our troubles are forgotten.. I've almost split from laughter at some of those and I look forward to this next one.
 
the letters must all be from lake woebegone,where "the men are brave,the women are good looking and all the children are above-average.' the lives described in the letters rarely fits with the actual lives of the people that send them.bragging annoys me.i could brag about some things if i wanted to,but i was brought up to find bragging poor form.its narcissism.i do like photos,tho-i like to see people change/grow over the years,especially children and pets.
 
the letters must all be from lake woebegone,where "the men are brave,the women are good looking and all the children are above-average.' the lives described in the letters rarely fits with the actual lives of the people that send them.bragging annoys me.i could brag about some things if i wanted to,but i was brought up to find bragging poor form.its narcissism.i do like photos,tho-i like to see people change/grow over the years,especially children and pets.
 
Sometimes they're good for a laugh. "Our grandbaby turned two today, and his proud mom and dad announced they'll be getting married next June."
 
I have two relatives that had done that for 25 years, sending out their happy once-a-year greeting and sometimes enclosed is a picture of their family on a card. Never asking "how are you", "what have you been doing", etc. So once I wrote them and in a nice way I said I was fed up with the news, how about talking like normal people and they were stunned, said they didn't care how I was just that they could take me off the list if I wanted and I said "yes please do" and the news stopped. The older pics they sent I kept for my family tree book. Now I just get a christmas card with the To area blocked off with "undisclosed recipients".

Yeah it used to get out of hand too with all the religious stuff and recipes and this and that some other relatives were sending. There too I said "please remove me from your email list" and they complied. Ahhh the sound of peace and slience is great.
 
I could care less about all the joys and woes that people have been through all year. You either get the letter that tells you all the health problems that they have endured all year or all the wonderful things that their kids and grand kids have done all year and the wonderful trips they have been on. I read about the first two lines and then toss it in the basket with the rest of the cards and never read any more. I also hate it when you get a Christmas from someone that you never hear from all year. What is the point really? If someone can't pick up the phone and call me or send me an e-mail sometime through the year then I sure as hell don't want to hear from them at Christmas time. We all have things we go through in a year and my really good friends are there to go through it with me. Just my opinion which doesn't count for much.
 
The same thing I thought with the first one I'd ever seen.
"If you don't have time to write to ME, don't bother."
I can wait.
 
The same thing I thought with the first one I'd ever seen.
"If you don't have time to write to ME, don't bother."
I can wait.
 
I don't care for them and they seem like self-promotion. What is really sad is that I've lived in the same house for 7 years now and every year a family in North Carolina sends a card to my address for the previous tenants. They don't know that they moved out over 7 years ago and they keep sending the cards, this year was a photograph-card of their 3 children. I am wondering why people bother sending cards if they know so little about each others lives?
 
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