Fred Basset by Alex Graham for December 22, 2023

You count them, Fred. That’s so cute.

Possibly, Fred. But a lot of folks have lost their Ho, Ho, Ho. You be your fun, joyful, loving self to everyone you meet, and maybe they’ll pick up on some of yours.

This year I have 6. Sigh.

Sad. This strip is this year just as up to date as it was back in the sixties.

Fred we hang the cards we receive on a door so we may look at them all year ! Sending the cards out is just part of the Christmas rush for me ;-)

I sent a lot of cards last year. Only received a couple. Just sent one to my best friend. We only got two this year.

The cost alone of colored ink printed on card stock is enough to discourage most people. Hallmark made a bundle in years past, but now the tide is turning.

I’ve got only one this year, with no return address … and the signature inside I illegible. I have no clue … none whatsoever!

So far the only cards we’ve gotten are for the prior owner – we have been here for four years. Seriously thinking about getting a “Return to sender. Not at this address” stamp.

So sad, you cannot hang e-cards over the mantle.

That’s disappointing.

Uh oh. Something is amiss!

Price of USPS forever stamps is predicted to go to 68¢ in late January.

The mailman is a Grinch.

No one that I know in Mexico sends Christmas cards. I’ve stopped sending them to friends in the States and elsewhere, but I do send some online from Jacquie Lawson, a great online card company in the UK.

Sorry Fred but this year everything costs so much and with the internet people no longer have to send cards they send e mail

Happy Christmas Fred. I don’t have you address, but I wanted you to know that I wish the best for you!

I only received 1 this year…bleakest Christmas ever !!