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No. Maybe if it was a family member and they were fully aware, but typically I would assume it was an innocent mistake.

Nope, not at all.

I wouldn't, but I know some people that would. I try to send Happy Holidays or Season's Greetings cards so I don't offend.

How Christmassy are we talkin? I celebrate Christmas in a pretty secular fashion since I am not Christian, and I like getting Christmas/holiday cards with cute pics and pretty universal well wishes, but if it were a kind of preachy card, I'd probably just put it right into the trash rather than hanging it up because it's not my thing. If there's a picture of your LO on it, you're safe. No one gets offended by babies sharing their cuteness! I personally try to stick with happy holidays cards since they apply to more of the ppl I send cards to.

No, but I purposely only send cards that say Happy Holidays/Happy New Year and never reference a specific religion (we are a mixed religion family). I also try not to send anything that is obvious Christmas colors or obvious Hanukkah colors. I usually do a green or a silver/gold kind of card.

@artbee: I would never be offended getting a Chanukah card!
In the same way, I'd find it totally weird if others were offended by my Christmas cards because I totally do print "Merry Christmas" on each one. I wouldn't print something different on JUST ONE because there is one person on my mailing list who doesn't celebrate it.
Hope that doesn't offend! just my 2 cents.

No. Somebody sending me a nice card isn't something I get offended about. I don't think anyone I know would send me a card with the intention of offending me, so why would I take it that way?

@Coco Bee: Doesn't offend me, like I said it doesn't bother me that much at all. But my DH does get offended.... and like others on here said there are people who do. So it might not hurt to think about your none Christmas celebrating friends when writing out your cards. Or write something more generic like "Happy Holidays."I have a quite a few Jewish and non Jewish friends and of course all of my family is Jewish so it's normal for me to have to pay attention to the different holidays.

@mrs. bird: I don't have the card, but here's the picture we're using.

I get happy hanukah cards ad I'm not jewish, I've also had happy Eid cards from muslim friends and I'm not muslim. I dont see what the big deal is. I just smile and I'm grateful they thought of me

@Cherrybee: agreed. Why can't we just all not get offended and be okay with however everyone else celebrates the various holidays?!?!

I find super religious cards a little uncomfortable, but generic Merry/Happy/Have a good [insert holiday of choice] cards are always cute.

Like a previous poster said, the intent is to be celebratory... not offensive, so why take it that way?

I would not get offended when I get a Happy Diwali card (Happy Diwali to those who celebrated yesterday!), Happy Chanukah, Eid card or generic Happy Holidays card, so I don't think any of my friends get offended when I send Christmas cards.

Personally I would love to get a card acknowledging a holiday someone else celebrates, but I know it may be different when you feel the dominant culture (i.e., Christmas) is forced on you.

ETA - Since DH is Jewish and I am not, we tend to buy neutral colored "happy holiday" cards and I get both Hanukkah and Christmas stamps.

Let me clarify myself. I don't mind getting a Christmas card. What I do mind is that people don't acknowledge in said Christmas card that my holiday exists too.

Like I said, we are sending out Chanukah cards this year, but they are postcards and in each postcard I will write a personal message either stating "Happy Chanukah" or "Merry Christmas" or the generic "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Chrismikah" to those who celebrate both.

Because no, I don't expect people to go out and buy me a special Chanukah card and yes I think it's nice that they're sending me a card at all. But please just acknowledge my holiday. Or don't write anything. Really just don't hand write Merry Christmas to me and I won't be offended. DH still will be though.... he's pretty grinchy.

i wouldn't be offended because i think it's the person who is sending me the card is celebrating. that being said, i don't personally write on any of our cards because we have over 60 cards to send out with all of DH's family. we all celebrate christmas, but maybe if i thought there was a friend who celebrated something else, i would give a quick written shout as well?

I send holiday cards that say Merry Christmas because that's the holiday that we, and most of our family/friends celebrate. However, I do always write a personal message that includes "Happy Hanukkah!" to acknowledge their holiday celebration.

I wouldn't be offended if I got a card for a holiday I didn't celebrate - I'd be happy that my friend thought enough of me to send a card. Hardly anyone does these days.

When I send cards, I usually buy an assortment from Costco (Although this will change when LO is here and I can make photo cards).
I set the ones that make any reference to Christmas or Santa aside and send those to the people I know celebrate christmas.

I use the "Seasons Greetings" and "Happy Holidays" cards for my Jewish friends, athiest friends or friends that I am unsure of their religious beliefs.
If any of those people got offended after all the effort I put in trying to NOT be offensive, I think they would be nixed from my group of friends.

@artbee: Christmakah is an awesome name, I'm totally stealing that for this year! My BIL''s fiance is Jewish so she comes to the in-laws every year for Christmas as she doesn't have to worry about upsetting her parents by not spending Christmas with them. We always have a kind of festival mash-up, with a menorah (even though Channukah's usually over by then) and, last year, we played dreidel, betting with nuts (the boys got really competitive!!). It's pretty awesome, really.

I'm Jewish and I definitely don't get offended, but it does feel a little funny. Like if you're not Jewish and I send you a card that says "Hope you have a good Yom Kippur and may your fast be easy this year!" and you're like "wtf? I don't fast on some random day in September... but thanks?" I do appreciate the sentiment though I get that a lot of people who celebrate Christmas see it as a "holiday season", even if I don't! I wouldn't want to take that away from them. Plus the whole "happy holidays" thing drives me crazy - it's a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree.