Three generations of Morfdorfer Family, with three generations of yuletide greetings proudly displayed in the background. One day some lucky granddaughter will win a scrapbook filled with them. yay
Granny is staring at the front door waiting for the mail man. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet will keep him from his appointed rounds. A neighbors dog barks, he’s coming she says with a sly grin.
My mom used to have a little red and green “rope” to hang cards from with tiny red and green plastic clothespins. I comandeered them for my doll house. Then she taped them to the china closet doors in the dining room. We have some pix with them in the background but never posed in front of them. I remember it was quite the job to write out and address all those cards. My job was to lick and seal envelopes and lick and stick the stamps — and Christmas seals (remember those?).
I have an aunt who knew so many people and was so well loved she had to display her cards like that every year because she got so many. They were everywhere and all new for each year.
Ah, the good old days when people sent folded cards with Christmas artwork on the front and a Chistmas message inside, instead of a peice of Kodak paper with an (uninteresting) portrait of their kids and “Happy Holidays” in a rectangle of white at the bottom.
I never thought it was pretentious. When I do it, it is an appreciation for the time taken to send so we can enjoy them – rather than tossing them in the trash.
I kept looking @ this trying to figure out what is “awkward” — I thought maybe it was that grandma looks like a mannequin (what a faker) and that mom looks like she is ready to hurt someone (too many hours with the in-laws). But yeah the cards are over the top.
do you wonder if those are accumulated xmas cards from past years? or did they go to the store and buy a bunch so that they had some to form a background?
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That is totally Marney!! In the chair – looking askance at the casseroles without proper lids!!
Three generations of Morfdorfer Family, with three generations of yuletide greetings proudly displayed in the background. One day some lucky granddaughter will win a scrapbook filled with them. yay
Be afraid. Be very afraid! The look on Grandmas face is priceless-How the heck do I get out of here?
Granny is staring at the front door waiting for the mail man. Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet will keep him from his appointed rounds. A neighbors dog barks, he’s coming she says with a sly grin.
“I got the most cards! I WIN X-MAS!!!”
Yeah…It’s a bit to busy.
They live in a museum
where people com to see ‘em!
They really are a screa-um!
Christmas card inception lol
This was back when postage was cheap!
My grandmother was so thrifty she would cut out pictures from old Christmas cards and reuse them as gift tags. It was a Grandma thing.
Thats a really good idea.
My mom used to have a little red and green “rope” to hang cards from with tiny red and green plastic clothespins. I comandeered them for my doll house. Then she taped them to the china closet doors in the dining room. We have some pix with them in the background but never posed in front of them. I remember it was quite the job to write out and address all those cards. My job was to lick and seal envelopes and lick and stick the stamps — and Christmas seals (remember those?).
My Grandmother used to do this too and I never could figure out how she knew so many people. And the cards would stay on the wall until February!
It could really all cards they received in one year. We still send out over 100 cards each year, and receive at least 80.
But what is perplexing to me is the OBVIOUS fire hazard that the cards pose resting against the electric wall heater!
Maybe Grandma’s look is because she is smelling smoke?
haha we do that my mom and my grandmother i dunno about posing infront of them but we do hang them ALL OVER THE HOUSE
They’re part of the Christmas decorations, and there aren’t really that many of them… Get over it!
I have an aunt who knew so many people and was so well loved she had to display her cards like that every year because she got so many. They were everywhere and all new for each year.
Ah, the good old days when people sent folded cards with Christmas artwork on the front and a Chistmas message inside, instead of a peice of Kodak paper with an (uninteresting) portrait of their kids and “Happy Holidays” in a rectangle of white at the bottom.
I like the picture cards.
awkward!
I had a friend who used to do this. I thought it was pretentious.
Though we’ve never taken a picture in front of them.
Nah – shake ‘em for a cheque or cash, then bin ‘em I say.
What a shame, there is so much going on in this photo, that no one noticed that the Christmas tree is missing!!
They may do what I do… Along with cards from friends & family, I hang my own store bought cards and hang them for decorations lol
LOL @ the caption!
I kept looking @ this trying to figure out what is “awkward” — I thought maybe it was that grandma looks like a mannequin (what a faker) and that mom looks like she is ready to hurt someone (too many hours with the in-laws). But yeah the cards are over the top.
And that’s probably like a decade worth of christmas cards. My mom used to save all her cards and hang them ALL up every year.
Thought the photo was humorous but the caption made me laugh out loud.
do you wonder if those are accumulated xmas cards from past years? or did they go to the store and buy a bunch so that they had some to form a background?
Merry Christmas from Marney and family
Lol! So true. But I wonder if the cards are in alphabetical order? Or in order of receipt? Or in order according to size? Or….
For Grandma and the Mom in the back row, it truly is the hap-happiest season of all.
Wow, I think I’ve gotten two Christmas cards… ever? Haha.