WATCH: A Christmas card exchange that started out as a joke back in the early 1960s has become a tradition for two best friends from New Brunswick. Shelley Steeves reports. – Dec 19, 2023 ...

Closing a Christmas Card to Friends If you're sending a Christmas card to a really close friend who may as well be family, consider a family-focused greeting.

What to Write in a Christmas Card to a Friend When writing to a friend, feel free to inscribe your card with warm wishes and personal sentiments, even jokes that are appropriate to the occasion.

Nancy Nester, left, hand-delivers a Christmas card to Catherine Crewe in Kimberley, B.C., in 2020. The pair has been exchanging the same card since 1964, a tradition started by their mothers.

In those days, spending money on Christmas cards — at least for us — was few and far between. It would surely have been seen as a kind of "squandering" to send cards — even by our friends.