Do you like getting the annual holiday letters that people send out? What do you and don't you like about them? Do you do one of your own?

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We have never done one ourselves.
I don't mind getting the short and sweet ones. The cheesy ones kind of annoy me though.
It is kind of nice when you get them from the people you never see but still get cards from. Just because I don't get to talk to them often doesn't mean I don't care how they are doing, it is nice to know how life is going for others.

I don't mind getting them, but I don't send any out myself !

I do not send any out myself, only because i have nothing good to write about, other than my dh's various and sometimes hilarious mishaps and injuries, or my teenage ds building his anatomically correct female snow "statue" that had the local factory workers laughing as they drove past after shift change......most of them being men!
I do not mind Christmas newsletters as long as they are not dramatically " enhanced" short versions of Academy Award acceptance speeches. My parents get one every year from some friends who fall into that catagory and each year mom calls me over to read it, so we can both laugh outloud about it. It's a HUGE brag letter, nothing wrong with bragging alittle but these people really go overboard. They have the perfect family, perfect children and grandchildren and if one has recently gotten married, well then you missed the royal wedding of the century and what a fabulous new SIL/DIL they got in the process............it's enough to make you want to vomit, especially when they leave out the good parts......like their grandson who just recently out- ran the cops (grandpa is an ex state trooper, how ironic?!), ah the interesting stuff is always left out. LOL, Maybe i should write a Christmas letter......it could be highly entertaining?!~~~Tanya

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We haven't received one from anybody in years but I would love to do one. However, my DH doesn't like holiday letters (thinks they're for braggers and that if someone cares whats going on in our life, they'll keep in touch to ask) so without his blessing I don't feel that it would be right to send one out. I personally think they're great because there are those that you speak to every now and again but because of time or distance restraints, you just aren't able to keep up with each other like you would like to.

I do send one to family members that we don't see very often, just to update them on the kids. That's it though. I don't mind receiving them, I love hearing what people are up to!

I've never sent one out, but I actually enjoy reading other people's letters. I like catching up on what everyone is doing.

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I am a nay on this one..and this is so the Grinch side of me, so please don't hold it against me...If I talk to you all year, I know what's going on...If I only get an annual Christmas card from you and that's the only communication we have through the year I do not care that the most exciting this that happened to you this year was having to bomb the house for flea's (I'm not kidding), or that things are still the same as in your last Holiday letter.

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I do send them but I like to make them short and sweet!! as I do like to update on the kids since they grow and change soo much!! Then I dont get as many ? later from people!!

I get a lot of complements for my letters!! I also add lots of fun pics of the kids and a family one as well!! The kid grow so much its fun looking back on the year to what things we have done and letting people know what things the kids are into!! most of the poeple that we send to are older folks who really like keeping updated on the kids!!
I do just send a nice pic of the kids to the people we see and talk to regulalry!!

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I love getting them and we send them too. We just try not to get too 'braggy' about things and instead try and make them funny. People often tell us they like them. Don't know what we'll write about when our kids aren't funny anymore.

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