Anyone else dread the "Christmas Letter" from their friends/families?

[forgop]

Is there anything more irritating than the full page "year in review" letter that certain friends/family members send out to let you in on how wonderful everything is going in their lives?

After I read the first 2-3 ever sent to our house, I just toss them in the trash now now.

[Bill86]

Luckily I don't receive those. My parents get emails and give me the highlights. My email is reserved for cigar updates and immediate family.

[markem]

Depends on how you look at it, I suppose.

I liked hearing about how my niece and some of her college buddies designed and installed a water filtration system for a village in Kenya where previously the closest water was a daily 3 mile walk.

I liked hearing about my nephew who opted to join the combat engineers in order to gain perspective about the world outside of his hometown.

I liked hearing that my brother's job has finally agreed that he needs to spend 3-4 weeks each winter in Stadl in Austria. He's a great skier and I'm happy for him.

I assume that they like hearing about our vacations around the world, my international consulting business and our charity work as well.


Don't you feel better now that you've read this Xmas letter

[Chingas]

Damn Duane. Cheer up Brother. You woke up on the right side of the grass today!

[forgop]

Originally Posted by Chingas

Damn Duane. Cheer up Brother. You woke up on the right side of the grass today!

It's just the idea behind sending out a generic letter to anybody and everybody that if I really cared enough to hear all about it, I would have known about all of that stuff cuz I would have picked up the phone or hung out with them at some point other than the obligatory family dinners, despite living less than 30 minutes from them. [/run on sentence]

[replicant_argent]

I like to make a comedy routine of them. It is curious what my brain sees "between the lines."

Some complimentary.. some...er.. very...


not.
My wife, bless her soul, puts up with it, and even occasionally chuckles at my antics.

[Eleven]

We got one for a couple years, my mother's second husbands new woman. It was strange.

Sufficient time passed and she no longer sends us those.

(He was my stepfather for 17 years, so it wasn't too strange that his new wife sent those to us, they did have updates on my half brother and half sister, otherwise it would have been really strange)

[Chingas]

I see your point. Rant on Brother!

[Ogre]

I am also lucky as to not get these. I would be lucky to get a single card from my entire family (not complaining).

[hotreds]

Used to get a few of these, but I never read them.(Both tenses.) Unless they are from somebody really dear to me, I don't care that your great grand aunt Sally finally had the nasty wart on her nose removed, thank-you.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by hotreds

your great grand aunt Sally finally had the nasty wart on her nose removed

Finally! Good deal.

[maninblack]

I hate these also. They go in the trash.

[aich75013]

My wife and I were takling about this last night.
My cousin's wife sends one out every year.
They are getting divorced after she found out he had a girlfriend on the side and my wife asked me if I thought she would send it out this year.
I said, "If she does it will probably be 10 pages instead of 3. "

[Blueface]

Don't read them.

[pnoon]

Instead we are blessed with the online daily versions known as Facebook and Twitter.

Yes. An essay is a bit much and many times include details nobody cares about. But I have sent out notes with Xmas cards with no more than 2 or 3 sentences about each of the 4 of us.

We all tend to lose touch with people in our lives that we care about. Properly written, I welcome them. I could care less about Aunt Sally's wart.
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[pektel]

Originally Posted by pnoon

We all tend to lose touch with people in our lives that we care about. Properly written, I welcome them. I could care less about Aunt Sally's wart.
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+1. Especially once you start having kids. I have a 3 year old and a 4 month old, and I barely have time for anything but them and work.

[Subvet642]

I don't even know most of my family; I've met them, heard their names, I can't keep them straight.

[forgop]

Originally Posted by pnoon

Instead we are blessed with the online daily versions known as Facebook and Twitter.

Yes. An essay is a bit much and many times include details nobody cares about. But I have sent out notes with Xmas cards with no more than 2 or 3 sentences about each of the 4 of us.

We all tend to lose touch with people in our lives that we care about. Properly written, I welcome them. I could care less about Aunt Sally's wart.
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It's one thing to include a personalized note or something to a particular person, but the generic full page bragathon to everyone is what I detest.

[htown]

I think Duane needs a hug.

[BloodSpite]

Originally Posted by forgop

Is there anything more irritating than the full page "year in review" letter that certain friends/family members send out to let you in on how wonderful everything is going in their lives?

After I read the first 2-3 ever sent to our house, I just toss them in the trash now now.

Oh man.

My In Laws all live in WNY.

So they sent one this year about how they came to visit us over Thanksgiving.

The opening lines were "After getting car sick on roads that were planned by a drunk..."

I threw it away.