Christmas cards verus Facebook

Today I have written all my Christmas Cards.  Christmas Cards aren't really that expensive.  I always try to buy 'charity Christmas Cards'.  This year I'm supporting the RSPCA, Marie Curie Cancer Care & Cornwall Hospices.


Stamps are extortionate!


I've spent about £10 on cards (because W H Smith were selling boxes for buy 2, get one free) and about £30 on stamps?????


Why am I sending Christmas cards to people that I don't actually see from one year to the next, they're my friends on Facebook, so actually why don't I just send them an e-card??????


Christmas is getting more and more commercialised every year.


And now I'm just sounding like a 'grumpy old woman' or a 'middle aged ranting spinster' - both of which I'm guessing I am???


However............................. as a 'ranting middle aged spinster.................... there's still something really nice about receiving a Christmas Card.  One has a 'physical thing' that one can display on one's mantelpiece.  OK I don't have a mantelpiece but that's not the point.


Christmas cards show that friends new & old are thinking of you at Christmas.  Sending a card signifies that an effort has been made to buy a card, write a card, put a stamp on the envelope and post the card.


Like many of my lovely FB friends, I'm sure I will pen a post on Christmas Eve which will say something like, 'Wishing all my FB friends a fabulous Xmas & New Year'.


I know I'm a 55 year old middle aged ranting spinster.................  But there's a lot to be said for sending good old fashioned Christmas Cards???