Christmas cards

Does anyone know whare I can buy some decent Christmas cards in Berlin?

What do you mean by "decent"? Surely any department store has good ones, eg. Karstadt or Kaufhof.

order some from Unicef. nice cards, reasonably priced (come in boxes of 10 I think), and it's all in a good cause!

By decent I mean regular cards that open and close where an envelope is normally supplied. I have checked Karstadt and Kaufhof but to no avail. Both stores had the same answer "you need to go to a card shop". Does anyone know where there is a card shop in Mitte. Unicef is a good idea but do regular cards not exist off the shelve or do I have to resort to a Christmas postcard. Any further suggestions welcome.

I buy mine at Butlers. They have some smaller cute blank cards (for birthdays, Christmas, weddings, etc). Just have patience at the post office though! When they see a card that isn't "standard size", they bring like two colleagues to check and measure.

But the cards are cute!

bought some last week in kaufhof in Alex!

I second Deccie- simple, really. I don't know if you are looking in the right department, but the one with all the stationary stuff has them- kaufhof, ground floor- all cards in Germany, by major retailers are sold with an envelope- so very normal. And a post office is not that hard to find in Berlin as well- logically they should/do have cards also.

I had that problem last year - could only find postards and regular cards in envelopes were rather expensive to send by the dozen. I ended up ordering them off eBay in UK! This year I got some nice ones in Lidl and also saw decent cards in McPaper.

PS : Strauss is advertising some cute Xmas cards available from 15 November ... there is a shop on Friedrichstraße 149!

woolworth

oh... and rossmann has got cheap and decent ones

Where are you finding these cards? I have been to Dussman, Kaufhoff, Rossman, and several smaller stationary shops and I have not found any boxed Christmas cards. And yes, I have looked in the right departments. They have individual cards of course, but at 2-4 Euros apiece, that's an expensive proposition. I would love to find boxes of 10-12 cards, with envelopes, preferably in a modern design. If anyone does manage to find boxed cards, please update! Thank you.

You can get boxed Christmas cards from McPaper or from UNICEF. UNICEF have a stall at Gendarmarkt Christmas market

Just a thought for future reference - Broken English sells Xmas cards in boxes too.

http://www.brokenenglish.de/

just go to Schlecker: pack of 10 cards: 99 cent. Cheap and cheerful!