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I'm honestly perplexed by this one, so help me out. Let me state this is one of few traditions left that make me feel Very Foreign. I got many Christmas cards this year, and I've noticed over the years that some people make it a tradition to take a family photo and attach it to the card. Some people skip this, and send only a picture of their kid. To be perfectly honest, it always weirds me out to get the ones with pictures of people's children on it. I'm never sure what to do with them, and I feel guilty throwing them out. They're usually cute kids, so I put them on the fridge for a while but eventually, when I have need of the real estate, I do toss them and feel guilty about it.
I remember we used to trade photos at school and my father couldn't stand the thought that strangers were tossing our pictures in the trash. I used to joke that it had to do with them stealing our souls, but I find I'm the same way as an adult, to the point that now my fridge has no less than ten pictures of other people's children (not including Jr., whom I suppose, technically I didn't birth but that does not count) that I got in Christmas cards and I'm mortified to think that I'll toss them and someday the parent will come over and ask why I didn't hold on to it.

Am I insane? Anyone else have similar thoughts? What's the protocol here, am I supposed to hang on to them?

Haha, I save the pic in the photos folder. Hrm. I have issues.

BTW, I feel I should mention I outraged Joph since two of the folks that sent me cards with cute kid pics were Nexa and DSD and he feels I'm being rude. My stance is that both ladies know me well enough to know that would not be my intent, and I feel both would be candid in expressing their expectations. Even with that said, a preemptive "I'm sorry, no offense meant" to both you gals.

Edited, Dec 26th 2007 10:46pm by Atomicflea

I'll generally keep them pinned on the fridge for a while, till I get replacements. Then I toss the old ones. I don't really get a whole bunch of them though, just from close friends and family, and most of the family doesn't bother. I get more pictures emailed to me than I get during Christmas, those I typically save to a folder on my hard drive and then delete from my email so's to keep space free. Yeah, ok, so Hotmail gives you freakin' 5gb now, old habits die hard.

I wouldn't feel guilty tossing out a picture on a Christmas card, now that Christmas is over. I'm keeping DSD's though...because it's just not possible to have more photogenic kids.

That baby is posing, then. Not just me?

I only send out cards so I can look like I'm at least making an effort at being a good mother. Besides, if you order the type of card I sent, you don't even have to write on or sign the damn things...how deliciously lazy is that?!

As for those sent to me, I cut out the heads of your children, glued them to popsicle sticks and told Hannah that they were her new friends and to leave me alone with my brandy.

Nexa

What creeps me out are the form 'letters' that some people send along with their cards telling us all about the wonderful deeds of their children.

I was tempted to send one out this year bragging about my sons first arrest and sharing the story of my daughter losing her virginity.

The card pictures get thrown into my box full of wrapping materials when I pack up x-mas stuff for the year. I save them because I feel guilty throwing them away.



edited for grammatical correctness



Edited, Dec 27th 2007 2:34pm by Elinda

I usually never post first thing in the morning. This is why.


moar koffee plz

I kind of like the form letters. Though, my relatives don't advertise the "dirt" in them, they just talk about what everyone did that year. Usually cool vacations, neat accomplishments, that sort of thing.

However, this year my step-sister sent me her usual letter in the form of a crossword puzzle. She's a grade school teacher, and I guess she thought it would be cute. For example, 7 down was something like "The State we went to for (her husband's) parents 40th anniversary". I called her and thanked her for the cute picture of the kids, and asked her why she sent me homework. She got kinda pissed.

You could start a creepy "wall o kid picture heads" montage mural thing and really creep them out!

Nope. That picture took 40 minutes of Ashe crawling away trying to eat the photographers camera, and about 75 shots to get that one shot.

Toss em, Flea. I expect every single person I sent them to to toss them. They're not to make people feel guilty about it, the kid photos are more for showing your friends and fam who live far away (HINT HINT) how damn big your kids got since they dont get to see them often or at all. Plus, a lot of the times, they're cheaper to print out than regular cards.

I wonder if this crazy lady of yours is my Mother-in-Law. It sounds like something she'd do and has done.

Well, what's the dealio? You guys going the way o' the Tarheel or not??