- cramp in my hand after writing only two, so that my writing becomes jerky and almost illegible
- realising that the pack of cards you bought in the January sale actually only contained five cards, not ten, and so now you don't have enough (and so wasn't really a bargain)
- being unable to find the length of ribbon that we hang them on every year, which is the exact length required with a loop at each end to go over the specially installed pins, making a new one, then finding the old one folded neatly underneath the box of cards... whose idea was that?
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- getting said ribbon up, standing back to admire the nice line of cards, only to have one pin come out and the whole lots come crashing down behind the sofa
I do actually like Christas cards though, both sending and receiving them, and use them to make gifts tags for next year too..... sometimes I even mange to find these again when I am wrapping presents