01 Dec 2008 14:40
What a great idea, Donna - wish I'd thought of doing that.
01 Dec 2008 20:32
Saving on ink too - not to mention buying stamps, writer's cramp, etc etc - I might just do that, Donna!
01 Dec 2008 21:56
Every year in the community centre where I work, we each buy one card to hang in the centre and put a couple of pounds in a box.
We usually manage to give £100 donation to our local hospice each year.
It also helps the pensioners because Christmas cards are a pain when you are getting older, remembering who you've sent them to and then walking about in the bad weather delivering them.
We are having a Christmas Fayre next week with different stalls, carol singing and turkey & stuffing barms ,hot soup and a roll , the proceeds from this event are being split between, once again our local hospice, but also the other half is going to the elderly people & children of Chernobyl.
We usually manage to give £100 donation to our local hospice each year.
It also helps the pensioners because Christmas cards are a pain when you are getting older, remembering who you've sent them to and then walking about in the bad weather delivering them.
We are having a Christmas Fayre next week with different stalls, carol singing and turkey & stuffing barms ,hot soup and a roll , the proceeds from this event are being split between, once again our local hospice, but also the other half is going to the elderly people & children of Chernobyl.
02 Dec 2008 12:41
You bunch of bloody Hippies! 
Christmas is about excess and waste, and cards are the most excessive waste of all.
Christmas is about excess and waste, and cards are the most excessive waste of all.
02 Dec 2008 16:59
Come on Skilly.. Us users of simmer framess keep a list and the only way we keep on top oif which of our friends have dropped of the perch is when we don't get a Xmas card from them. To a lot of people a card is big part of Xmas and keeping in touch.
02 Dec 2008 18:50
Silverfox ,all I can say is that were I live we are not so isolated that we don't know if each other has dropped off the perch ( I am not far off being a pensioner 
). People still send cards to friends who live far away etc but we are a small close knit community who see each other almost every day. I suppose we are lucky.
I have done this job for 28 years and only today people have been saying that they feel so proud when we hand over the donation in lieu of Xmas cards to the hospice who do such admirable work and I think that is a brilliant thing to do for each other over Christmas... its an acheivement
). People still send cards to friends who live far away etc but we are a small close knit community who see each other almost every day. I suppose we are lucky.
I have done this job for 28 years and only today people have been saying that they feel so proud when we hand over the donation in lieu of Xmas cards to the hospice who do such admirable work and I think that is a brilliant thing to do for each other over Christmas... its an acheivement
02 Dec 2008 21:57
Sorry not having ago about the donations. It was only in answer to the paragraph about pensioners not remembering and said very much tongue in cheek.. Seriously admire the work you and thousand of others do and long may it continue.
03 Dec 2008 12:40
Merry Xmas Donna it was lovely meeting you look forward to seeing you next year and hopefully i wont be poorly xx
Happy Christmas
08 Dec 2008 13:11
Hi Donna
Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and Peacefull New Year
See you next year
Alan & Gloria xx
Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and Peacefull New Year
See you next year
Alan & Gloria xx
Chringle cards
09 Dec 2008 21:37
Gary Krimble to you Donna and all the ICR team.... Have a great one! 
09 Dec 2008 21:55
Happy Xmas to everyone at home and in Icmeler.
I too am not sending cards this year but have instead donated money to Cancer Research.
I too am not sending cards this year but have instead donated money to Cancer Research.
10 Dec 2008 08:55
To ALL at ICR
Thanks for the great holidays past and future and hope you all have a great Christmas and a fabby new year.
Andrea and mum xxx
Thanks for the great holidays past and future and hope you all have a great Christmas and a fabby new year.
Andrea and mum
xxx