It's not uncommon to have embarrassing Christmas cards shared with family, friends and acquaintances. For example, I'll never forget the year my mother decided to include in our card that I had a crush on Josh Kim (his name has been changed to spare us both further humiliation). I was 7.

But there are some people who take it a step further, and all you can do is ask yourself, "What were they thinking?" Here are 9 thoughts that were possibly crossing the minds of these families who failed their Christmas cards.

If we wear green trash bags, we won't have to worry about coordinating outfits.

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We already printed out 200 of these so ...

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I'm going to be the most classy bachelor on everyone's fridge.

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This is the least joyous time of the year.

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What is this strange creature?!

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We just can't figure out why Sally didn't love our superb holiday card idea.

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Mr. Whiskers can be the sheep!

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We didn't want to go for the tacky Christmas sweaters.

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This way we never lose each other at the holiday parties.

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In other words, whatever these families were thinking, it just didn't come out that way.

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