Have you gotten your Bragging Christmas letter yet?

codepoet.org ^ | December 2002 | Jana Whitley

[warsaw44]

Wonderful! A keeper - one of my favorite segments of the Howie Carr show.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I used to crack up every year when we’d get the family portrait card from a “friend” that showed she and her hubby, 3 adorable dark headed, olive skinned Italian children and the one tall blonde from the affair she had the month before they married. Oops....I still wonder what they told his family about that....

[tioga]

you are a missionary in Indonesia? wow

[Marie2]

I guess I’m afraid my news will be interpreted as bragging.

[Jemian]

We’re on furlough right now and in Alabama. Our return visas have just been granted so we’ll go back about the 15th (a little more paperwork has to be done and all the offices are closed now).

[Tax-chick]

I’m with you. I like hearing about what my friends and relatives have been doing during the year. Even if you exchange notes with people more than once over the year, it’s hard to cover everything about their jobs, visits, kids, grandkids, pets, etc. If I didn’t like the people enough to care, I wouldn’t exchange Christmas cards with them!

I typed a letter for the first time, this year. With ten of us, it just takes too long to give even a brief mention of each if I hand-write them individually. At least my friends are getting a card, instead of wondering if we moved or died.

[tioga]

God bless you and your work.

[Jemian]

Thank you. Be sure to pray for us.

[tioga]

Always.

[TheConservativeParty]

I get mostly cards, but 2 come in printed letter form. The sender makes all the difference:

I have a very eliteist liberal sister in law. Overpaid and underworked principal at a public school. She once said “I can’t believe how much they pay me for what I do!”. (That was real nice for an overtaxed property tax payer to hear!)

She is “nouveau riche”. New Money. Has no CLASS. Comes from humble background and now flaunts her wealth like a clod.

I stopped reading her brag letters years ago. I literally rip it up when it comes.

On the other hand my favorite Christmas letter is from my dear old aunt and uncle who are actually CHRISTIANS and are humble, sweet and lovely people. They send a card and enclose the letter with it. I look forward every year to their letter and the personal note that they add to it.

[Ditter]

We didn't get a single “we are wonderful” Christmas letters this year. I hope the trend is fading out. We got a real prize from a cousin a couple of years ago when the fad was at its height. I saved it because it was a doozie. They had been transferred to Europe by his company and they visited every exclusive hotel spa and country club and met all the royalty that was alive at the time. I had to throw up after reading it.