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12-22-2012 at 12:27 PM
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Thank you card question

This may be a dumb question but are we supposed to send out thank you cards for DD's Christmas gifts? We never did as kids. We just said thank you to whoever was there and called people to thank them later but ILs seem to think I'm supposed to send out thank you cards for every dam.n thing.
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12-22-2012 at 12:35 PM
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Umm. No.

I have never heard of thank you cards for Christmas.

And a little confession I still haven't sent thank you cards for my baby shower for the twins. Shame on me I know, but oh well.

I have never given a gift for a birthday/shower/wedding and expected a thank you card or ever said "oh so and so never sent me a thank you card how rude." I know people (most people anyways) are thankful when I give them a gift. I don't need a card.

I think that was a UO and FFFC all in one :)

ETA: Thanking them upon opening a gift or calling them if they aren't there is plenty good in my book.

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12-22-2012 at 12:47 PM
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Kadie331:
I have never given a gift for a birthday/shower/wedding and expected a thank you card or ever said "oh so and so never sent me a thank you card how rude." I know people (most people anyways) are thankful when I give them a gift. I don't need a card.

I totally agree. The only time that I feel like I would have liked a thank you card is if I made something and worked really hard on it. Even then, I don't get too hurt if I don't get one.

Confession: I never sent out thank you cards for DD's birthday. I know I should have and I bought them but kept putting it off. I put a little note in my Christmas cards thanking people and apologizing for being a flake. My side of the family all thought it was funny that I was stressed about it. But DH's family is still pissed...Confused

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12-22-2012 at 12:48 PM
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DH's grandparents are the only people that we send a thank you card. They are the only ones that send gifts.  We see everyone else. They are much more formal than my  family where an in person thank you or call is acceptable.
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12-22-2012 at 3:17 PM
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We still send thank you cards for Christmas and Birthdays. Also most people in my family send them back to us too. We were always raised that way and it stuck with me.
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12-22-2012 at 3:20 PM
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I don't do Thank yous for Christmas.

Birthdays yes.

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12-22-2012 at 5:23 PM
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We didn't do them at all growing up, but the only people who bought us things were parents & grandparents... and one set of grandparents lived with us. Now I am married into a family that writes thank you cards for thank you cards. It happened, I wrote more of a letter/thank you & DH's grandma (no wonder MIL is nuts) sent a thank you.

The searches I've done say that if you open a gift in front of the person, a verbal thanks is sufficient. But MIL feels differently. So I write thank you's to DH's family bc they expect them, and we just tell my family in person. 

I'm ready to climb the walls, too, buddy.

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12-22-2012 at 8:57 PM
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kenna_4:

I don't do Thank yous for Christmas.

Birthdays yes.

This. EXCEPT, I found the stack of DD's birthday thank you cards a few weeks after Thanksgiving....oops! I was embarrassed, and didn't know if it would be awkward to send them, so I didn't. 

ETA: I've never seen anybody give/receive thank you cards for Christmas, and I've never given or received them either. 
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12-22-2012 at 10:44 PM
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kenna_4:
I don't do Thank yous for Christmas. Birthdays yes.
This. Unless the gift was mailed, and I didn't call to thank. Then I mail a TY card.
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12-23-2012 at 12:23 AM
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bdschad:
We still send thank you cards for Christmas and Birthdays. Also most people in my family send them back to us too. We were always raised that way and it stuck with me.

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12-24-2012 at 7:49 PM
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Not if we opened it in front of the person. If they mailed it or sent it ahead of time, then yes.
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12-28-2012 at 1:51 PM
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Christmas is the only exception to thank you cards in my rule book. I send thank you cards for everything except Christmas. We say "thank you" in person because generally you open the present in front of the person. Everything else (baby shower, wedding, bridal shower, housewarming party, birthdays, etc) I send out thank you's. I was always told if someone spent their money and time to buy you something you should send out a thank you.
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