I really like receiving photo cards - especially from those friends and family far away.
My 25 year old is a hard “no” on us sending a photo card with her on it. They say they are an adult now (I guess I kinda forget how old they are since they only graduated last year at age 24).
So starting last year, no photos for us.
And I have cut down my list to mostly those we don’t see very often and the out of owners.
So if and when do you drop your kids from the card?
I still include my grown kids but they do get “approval rights”.
I usually include my grown kids (and now grandkids). Graduation or wedding years we usually had a good family picture. Last year it was just DH and I with the grandkids and we had pictures of the kids (and their significant others) on the back. In 2020 with the pandemic I used a photo of our dog in a Santa suit with small pictures of the kids on the back.
Well I said I don’t send physical cards, but I did do a digital card posted on social media and I got their approval (20 & 22). I get holiday cards from some friends and cousins that have 3 generations on them so I don’t think you’re ever too old, but it would be weird for parents to send out a photo card of just their adult children. If they do a whole family photo that’s cool, though.
Once our son graduated from HS, I only included his academy graduation and, this year, his wedding in our Christmas card pics. Otherwise, he’s on his own. As I posted yesterday, his wife has picked up the Christmas card baton with no prompting from me. I love this woman. 
The card I send out is from H & me, but our kids, SIL and grand are in the pictures. The kids think it’s cool.
Not that I send out cards, but my now-married 27-year-old would be a hard no too. My sympathy and empathy.
I care most that someone made the effort to send me a card. I know I’m in the minority, but I don’t care about photo cards at all. 1., I feel guilty every year that I put pictures of beautiful kids in the recycling bin. 2., I’d prefer a photo of the sender, not just the kids. There’s a chance I barely know the children. But the adult who sent the card probably wont appear on the card 50% of the time.
Put yourself on the card, please. I want to see a nice photo of my friend having fun or smiling🙂.
Every year, there’s a childless couple who sends us a card with a photo of just their dog. I haven’t seen the couple in 15 years, though my husband has. I know what their dog looks like, but I’d rather see them.
Yes! Our nephew and his wife always send a photo of their dog. 
We do though were talking just last night about how long or whether we’d continue to do so. Kids are now HS seniors. So either “this was it” or we’ll do 4 more years while they attend college.
One thing we’ve loved is that the service we use is happy to sell you a lovely little Christmas tree ornament, a silver frame miniature version of the photo card. We now have 18 of them on our tree which is kind of crazy.
We stopped a few years ago. I used to do one with photos from the year before. Not sure why we stopped except once my D was in college there were less photos to choose from. I also really did not like the process. But we got VERY few cards this year and it made me somewhat sad so I am thinking about sending them again next year. We’ve moved a lot and have pockets of friends from each move that we really only hear from at Christmas time and I miss hearing what they are up to or at least seeing photos of what they’ve been up to.
Yes, please. If you’re going to include pics, include yourself. I don’t care about your pets or your travels, I want to see YOU. But I’m very happy to get cards without pictures that have short personal notes, too. Some of those are the best. What I don’t understand are the commercial photo cards (often without a pic of the sender) with no note on the back, either handwritten or produced with the card, just a photo montage sent out like a commercial mailer. Why bother?
I know I’m in the minority here, but I save each year’s cards. I put a rubber band around them with a post-it noting the year, and they go into a large bin that we store with the tree and ornaments. Every year, I’ll rifle through an archive or two just to see what the years have wrought or remember someone who is no longer with us. This is one bin our son will dump after we’ve gone for sure.
My grandparents sent a glossy Christmas photocard many decades ago, before it was common. They travelled a lot. I obviously saw my grandparents in person, but I loved their photocards: them in front of the Eiffel Tower, or with palm trees and a beach, and once on the Great Wall of China, when hardly anyone from the West went to China as tourists. Their cards definitely inspired my love of travel.
I’m going to keep sending my charity xmas cards for the foreseeable future. Photo cards aren’t my thing, but I do see why they are so popular.
We have friends whose 3 teen daughters were being such a pain about the photo holiday card, they put photos of their 3 dogs. 
We did new year cards without fail for over 20 years. Always picture cards - usually pictures of the kids, but once the cards started to offer multiple pictures, I pulled together several pictures of us, the kids and had great fun putting the card together. Used to send out about a 100 cards each year - including several to family overseas.
Somehow didn’t feel like sending them anymore since 2020 - so we’ve stopped. Keep getting asked by folks where our card is since we used to be so prompt - at least now, I know folks used to like getting our card 
Told S I might restart in a year or two and would be more inclined to restart if there were any additions to our family. He didn’t appreciate that nagging 
That might inspire hime to adopt a dog 
I’d sometimes send Happy New Year cards when the kids were young but haven’t done so in years. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the number of photo cards we now get from the offspring of our friends. These are kids we spent time with as they grew up and now have families of their own. I’ve noticed we now get very few traditional Christmas cards and every year it’s less.
I’d be good with that too
All our cards would be the dog.
Christmas cards are like decorations to me. I think that’s another reason why it’s a little sad that people aren’t sending as many. Who doesn’t love a snowy scene, or a red robin, or Santa and his sleigh, or holly with red berries, or any other cheerful scene on a Christmas card?