I haven't sent them out for a couple of years, but I'm planning on doing so this year. It's a way of saying, "Hey, we're not dead yet!" to the folks who don't read my LJ.

We intend to.

That way, we can include the less than one month old pictures of Katie that were supposed to go in the cards last year. :)

Plaxo is a good addition to an email client and it will help you get postal addresses from friends.

I haven't, in quite some time, because when I did it, I made the cards myself, and I haven't had any really good ideas for a card design since. (Although I have enough new friends, and old ones with poor memories, maybe I should "recycle" the last one...)

But for some people, christmas cards are the only way I have of finding their addresses. (Of course, figuring out where I stuck the envelope I got from them when I need it is a whole 'nother problem...)

Christmas, no. I used to send out Happy Spring cards though. Spring was always defined by me as "when it felt like spring", as opposed to "when the equinox hits".

I send cards to people who send them to me. Some foster sibs, some old friends, some ex-inlaws... less and less every year, since the advent of widely available email.

yeah, I do. Not a huge number, and mostly to people I don't see but still want to connect with from time to time. It also helps remind them that no matter what my name or where I live, I'm still me....

I send out cards to about two dozen people. They're store-bought cards, but I try to write something personal in each one.

No, but we feel guilty about not doing so every year.

Every year I plan too, and every year I don't actually get around to it. The actual address issue is problematic for me as well. I probably only have house addresses for 20% of my friends, and I know that some of those are out of date.

Since we recently moved, I really want to send out some cards, but my track record is abysmal. So we'll see.

Also, I subscribe to the notion of the 12 days of X-mas -- so it's not really over until Jan 6. Those years when I have manged to send out cards, they go in the post that first week of January.