Greetings from their house to… my house?

About twenty years ago I sort of inherited these Christmas cards, typical of the 1950’s style that my in-laws and their close friends would send and receive back then. I think I’ve already purged most of what they’d saved in this category, but kept this sampling, most recently in my own basket of cards received in the current year. They weren’t sent to me, but they go on sending greetings! Just now I decided to take their picture, and I will “let them go” after this Christmas. I’m not in touch with the people who are pictured here; many of them are likely still sending their own cards, which I’m sure are nothing like these.

Back then, my parents never went to the trouble of getting anything like this printed,
but I wouldn’t be surprised if the style is familiar to some of you. As of yesterday I was sure that this year I wouldn’t have time to send any Christmas cards, but today I wrote out a few, and that made me happy.

German Advent Calendar

5 thoughts on “Greetings from their house to… my house?

  1. I vaguely remember a postcard-like greeting with my photo on it that my folks included with cards one year, rather like the red one at the bottom of your image. I wonder now if I might have one of those in the old family photos I have. What’s interesting is that I remember the photo; it was from the previous Christmas, and showed me under the tree with one of my toys.

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