Question for you all...

[iamdigitalis]

When you receive greeting cards - holiday or otherwise - what do you do with them? Tell me - do you display, do you save, how long for either or neither? What comes next? Does it go in the trash or do you do something creative with them? I want to know!

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[leoff]

Even though I rarely have anyone over, I do display them for the holiday season. After early January-ish, I save them, box em' up.

[iamdigitalis]

Do you do anything with the boxed cards? Or are they just saved?

[leoff]

They're saved, momento's only. Every few years I'll open the box and go through them for fun.

[rest_in_thee]

Typically I display, usually in my room. If I'm at home, sometimes I'll hang a bunch of religious Christmas cards along the railing leading upstairs. Afterward I'll recycle most of them, saving ones that might have sentimental value that in five years I'll end up recycling anyway having never looked at them since.

[iamdigitalis]

Thanks, M. We have mounds of greeting cards, so I'm looking for ideas for what to do with them, since I don't think either of us will be tossing (trash or recycle) them, and I don't have the initiative to be crafty. :)

[rest_in_thee]

I'm not the most creative person in the world. Do you have a room in your house, a spare room or an office or something, that you could use an entire wall as a sort of memorial of all the greeting cards you've received over the years. Sort of a greeting card tribute to loved ones?

[iamdigitalis]

We're both pretty particular about wall ornamentation, so while that might be good for some, maybe not for us. Thanks though!

The best I have come up with is a photo album stuffed with cards. The albums would live on the shelves, and the cards will take up less boxed up space.

[pastorlenny]

Socks first.

[iamdigitalis]

You're a hoot, Len. I was just thinking about that question this morning.

[rogueblack]

I look at them, appreciate them, and then toss them. Tom rescues them and tapes them on the wall.

[rleyser]

They are on display until I get sick of them (usually around Feb when my birthday cards start coming in!). Then I put them in a shoebox. I do not do anything further with them!