Birthday cards

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I have mixed feelings about greetings cards: they always seem a bit expensive for what they are. I also have difficulty keeping on top of my life as it is: for instance, I still have lingering issues with backup volumes and I have yet to put away some clean laundry from a few days ago. I used to send my parents a card but they since passed; for years I have sent hardly any birthday cards. Adding to my to-do's visits to shops to select cards is certainly possible but, as I already make too little progress with domestic affairs, it feels unwise to add even more to the list.

I do manage to send Christmas cards. For those it is easy to buy whole boxes of various kinds and they are all due at around the same time which tends to coincide with when I take time off work so I can use a vacation day to sit down and work through them.

However, I do reliably receive a birthday card from aunts and uncles and I do know the birthdays of nieces, nephews, etc. When I travel within range first cousins do kindly make a trip over to say hello. Possibly with my lack of birthday card issuance I am committing a serious faux pas and should do a better job of politely respecting family obligations.