Cards!?!
I have tons of cards from Christmas, Birthdays, Valentines, Thank You Notes, Postcards, DS being born, etc. I just CAN'T seem to get rid of them but they are getting crazy!
I am looking for ideas on an orgainzed way to store them that doesn't take up much space. I don't know weather to seperate them by recipient or occasion or some other way.
Which ones can I toss and which ones can I keep? I am afraid to throw any out for my son because obviously he is too young to care now but he may like to look back and see who sent him cards when he was little and everything.
Please help!
If it's a very meaningful card - for example, one that had a particularly wonderful note written inside - I keep it. Right now each of my boys has a small box with keepsakes inside, some just to keep, some waiting to be organized into baby books.
If it's not meaningful (like the millions of cards with just the person's name signed inside), I ask myself if I have any particular use for it. Some get kept for craft projects. The rest get recycled.
Well, unless Griff gets them first. He's a packrat in the making and loves to hold on to pieces of paper.
i read them when i get them, show them to dh, then toss them.... i never keep them longer than one week. i used to have a ton. um. yeah, never never never used them.
one thing-- if it's something uber sentimental-- take a pic of it, keep the (digital) photo, dump the thing itself.
If you scrapbook you could save some of the more special ones that way. You could also save the ones for DS and put them in his memory book, photo album or a special box like pp mentioned.
I would go through and save only the most important ones. I would limit myself to a number or to fill a space (like a small box or drawer) then I would toss the rest. As I got more cards I would go through every so often and reorganize them.
Cards for Abby get scrapbooked (mostly because she gets so few). Other cards (holidays and such) generally get tossed in the recycling bin after the husband sees them.
I have kept the kids cards for their first few birthdays. All others, I close my eyes and throw them out. I feel guilty, but they end up just being clutter. I also tend to not spend money on cards for others, especially if giving a gift. I like to use a little gift tag. Cards are SOOO expensive and I think usually end up in the garbage or tossed into some drawer.
Special ones may get saved in the kids' memory boxes.
Cards for the family get hung on the fridge for a week or two.
Rosh Hashana cards get displayed in the Sukkah, then get rained on and tossed.
Bat mitzvah cards were hung on a string across a wall for a few weeks.
I like the idea of using them for cut-and-paste projects. Let the kids make collages and then display for a few days. Then toss.
I have a project which involves making a spice box (used for Havdallah ceremony at the end of Shabbat) out of a greeting card. It is filled with cinnamon sticks and cloves, and you can still see the pretty design. These get given away, and ultimately tossed, I'm sure.
I have a framed collage of cards and postcards all with cats on them, back from when I actually liked cats, that hangs in the hall.
I'm sure any pre-school would appreciate a box of cards for arts and crafts.
There is an orgianzation that actaully collects the covers of christmas cards after Christmas. let me go and see if I can find them. I sent tho them a couple of times...but thre can't be any writing inside the covers. It is some project for handicapped kids.
For dds' scrapbooks, I just cut out the sentiment written by the sender and made a collage page.
Other holiday cards I toss. That's why I hate photo cards, I feel SOOO guilty throwing out a picture of someone's children or family. Couldn't they send me a postcard directing me to a photo website????
mom22girls--- will you be my mom too. mom23girls!!!!! My mom is insisting that I get those photo cards done. Sometime this week I have to take dd to a friends house so she can take a picture of the three of us and I then have to go put them on a card and mail out to all her friends. I emailed her and said, why don't I just send everyone an ecard with her picture it would save paper and money?? and she replies.... that's fine I just wanted everyone to know her....guilt guilt guilt guilt.
I wasn't even gonna do Christmas cards this year and now I'm doing late ones, how tacky!!!
In recent months the outpouring of support for the children of St. Jude's Ranch through our Recycled Card Program has been overwhelming! We have received over one million parcels containing card fronts and this is far more than we can now use. In fact, the cost associated with handling so many cards is beginning to draw from funds that are needed to care for our children. Our kids are buried in cards! Some of our children do continue to make and sell cards but St. Jude's Ranch for Children no longer accepts used card fronts.
Thanks everyone. I don't think I will feel as guilty throwing them out now! I have decided to save all the ones to my DS for now. Then for me I am going to keep the ones from my mom because usually they are very thoughtful and some from DH. All others are going in the trash! (well my DH can decide which of his he wants to keep, I think he does that as he gets them)
For those of you who said you throw them away unless they're meaningful:
Did you keep ones that people gave you congratulating you on the birth of your child(ren) if they didn't have really anything written in them? I have a ton and I'm torn!
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