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[wellinghall]

[Poll #863990]

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[emperor]

Ish? I guess. I don't really know. I'm useless at them, but atreic sends quite a few.

[na-lon.livejournal.com]

I answered that poll for me and the Marquis. I love the way it displays the standard deviation at the top there... ;-)

(Mind you, it seems topical. I have been teaching analysis of variance this week.)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

How many do YOU send wellinghall?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

100 - give or take!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

We send one to each member of the faculty and staff in the college of which my husband is the dean, so that explains our numbers a bit.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I don't know (I don't count them) but certainly fewer than in the past. I always used to give one to everyone at work, and one to everyone in all our Morris sides. It got a bit meaningless - not to mention wasteful of paper. Last year, a lot of us got together and decided by mutual consent not to give cards to each other, but to give to charity instead.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

WHAT??? I send about 10. Fewer if I can get away with it :D

I'd rather phone people to wish them happy Christmas. Seems more personal than sending cards, and less wasteful. Plus, I'm too disorganised. I always get ambushed by Christmas!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

We send cards because they're tactile, pretty and with the Woodland Trust, WH Smiths & Tesco you can recycle cards and raise money for the WT.

[sally_maria]

I guessed about 30, but I'm not quite sure. Last year LJ meant I got to send some cards to interesting places - must remember to make Christmas card post.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, firstly, I shy away from cards that actually say Merry Christmas (although I probably send a few when I run out and use the kids'). But we have a large family and also uni friends who we don't see that often, and usually include a newsy letter along with the card (or at least a few meaningful words). So I don't think that is all that wasteful cos it is the main correspondence of the year in a lot of cases. I did go through the list and thin out people we no longer hardly know. But I do see your point...it does seem rather a lot when added up.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

This too. Technically, not using the paper is still greener, but it's not as environmentally damaging. Sending e-cards on its own is quite green, but all that electricity that powers all our gadgets all year round jolly well isn't.

(There is the question about whether growing new renewable paper-forest is actually more ecologically friendly than recycling the card, though...)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm just disappointed it doesn't give the mode as well ... ;-)

[rustica.livejournal.com]

I do send cards to people who are a long way away - mostly family. Or to people that would be hurt if they didn't get one. But I do feel that it's silly to give them people I see a lot of. Also, where the Christmas card is the *only* contact I have with someone, they tend to get dropped off the list pretty soon. I just don't see the point, when you have no contact with someone, year in, year out, except a Christmas card - that's not my definition of friendship or family.