Christmas Brag Letters? Do you get them? Thoughts?

[gophins72]

i am generally pretty happy to read their news.

 

[CLite]

I have never once read a family update Christmas letter that was positive and thought to myself "this is a nauseating brag letter". The cynicism is strong in this thread.

 

[moshquerade]

I have never once read a family update Christmas letter that was positive and thought to myself "this is a nauseating brag letter". The cynicism is strong in this thread.

Then you have never once got a "brag" letter. I am not talking about an "update" letter, but a letter that tells of every little event in the year as freakin fantastic and the best thing that has ever happened to them.

 

[ZOOYUKA]

I have never once read a family update Christmas letter that was positive and thought to myself "this is a nauseating brag letter". The cynicism is strong in this thread.

We aren't talking about positive letters, we are referring to self promoting letters. Big difference.

 

[CLite]

I guess it depends on what you call self-promoting. If I got a letter from my cousins talking about an awesome job they got and how the kid is already reading, I would be super excited for them. I would not interpret it as a brag letter.

 

[rcpratt]

I guess I'm not exactly sure where the line is between an update letter and a brag letter, but my mom used to send these in Christmas cards sometimes. I don't think she does anymore.

I don't really remember what kind of crap was in them, if we moved I guess, if we got a new pet, a short update on what each kid was doing...I guess it could be construed as a brag letter. I always thought it was kind of interesting to read them from families that I hadn't seen in 5-10+ years.

 

[ahenkel]

Did Jesus' family send out brag letters? I can just imagine the letter sent out on 33 A.D.


Dear Loved ones.

My son is the son of god suck on that. Oh yea and he beat death.

Merry Christmas

Mary and Joseph.

 

[roguerower]

You'd know a brag letter in a second. Making little Susie out to be the next big thing since sliced bread is annoying as fuck.

 

[ahenkel]

You'd know a brag letter in a second. Making little Susie out to be the next big thing since sliced bread is annoying as fuck.

Agreed, my aunt tried this once 10 years ago we haven't letter live it down yet.

 

[CLite]

You'd know a brag letter in a second. Making little Susie out to be the next big thing since sliced bread is annoying as fuck.

The definition of a cynic "a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view. "

It is possible someone is proud of little Susie and thought their relatives would love to hear about little Susie. It is possible that those relatives are extreme cynics who look at that letter as a brag letter.

I could fix the above quote to say "You'd know a cynic in a second. Interpreting a family members letter about how well their family is doing as a nauseating brag letter."

 

[DrPizza]

An acquaintance of mine sends out those letters. She was complaining the other day "omg! I'm so busy! I have to do all these letters, that's over 150 letters that I have to get into Christmas cards and get them addressed and stamped and mailed. I have a feeling some people are going to be shocked. They don't even know that I remarried!"

"You've spent a lot of time lately complaining about how busy you are with all your Christmas preparations. Has it occurred at all to you that the people who don't even know you got married six months ago really don't give a shit? If if was me, I'd save my money on the greeting card, envelope, postage, and more importantly, I'd save time by not contacting former 'friends' who don't care enough to even know that I got married this year. If they couldn't be bothered enough to know something that important, I don't know why you feel so compelled to spend your precious time contacting them."

<Dirty looks.>

 

[mizzou]

my in-laws do this, maybe it's an Easterner thing?

My wife and I routinely do funny christmas cards and send them out to close family/friends, maybe like 20

 

[jupiter57]

I got 4 cards this year, a record I think. One from my boss, one from a coworker, one from my mortgage broker, and one from my financial advisor.

Most ATOTers "Financial Advisers" primary job is to report on who has the cheapest Ramen at any given time! 🙂