What do you do with your greeting cards?

Yeah, so I've been unpacking stuff in/cleaning up/rearranging my bedroom for the last three weeks, and I came across a drawer full of cards I've kept over the last years, dating back to the mid-90s... birthday cards, Christmas cards, graduation cards, etc. It was kind of cool to see, including some cards from my grandma who passed away back when I was in eighth grade.

So I've kept all my card and will continue to. What do you do with your greeting cards? Keep 'em for a while. Lose them somewhere? Trash 'em at some point? What do you do with your greeting cards?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I keep my cards, but it kind of presents issues... at this point I have two shoe-boxes full of them, and most of them don't mean anything. I should probably sort through them and whatnot...

I hate having clutter. But I hate throwing things away. But I love cards... I must send an average of like 2 greeting cards per week...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I keep them lying around, and eventually I find them again. I recently found one I got from an old girlfriend. It brought back a lot of old memories.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I keep memorable ones in a shoe box under my bed. At times I like to rummage through them and remember old friends.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I keep all my cards in a shoebox that I left at my parents' house. My oldest one is from the mid-90s since I didn't begin saving cards and special letters until I was a little older. I don't remember the last time I looked through the box, but I do like keeping the things people have given me throughout the years.

How ya doing, buddy?

Scattered everywhere. My important documents, my closet etc. Yeah, I'm in the process of a major clean-up around my turf so I'll probably collect them all.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

If its only written "Happy b'day", I pretty much trash them after a while. If there is an interesting message or coming from someone I do care about then I'll probably keep it somewhere safe.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Terminus

Scattered everywhere. My important documents, my closet etc.

That sounds just like me. I don't even get that many cards a year, yet the ones I do have are scattered everywhere between the places I keep stuff (i.e. closet, drawers, bookshelves, etc.). I don't really look at them that often though, so I have no incentive to gather them all together in one place.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I trashed them all except the ones that really special (like the ones from close friends) but in the end I will just dump them all in trash can. They eat spaces.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

On one hand after said event has passed I don't see much purpose holding on to them, but on the the other hand I feel bad throwing them away, so I let my cats decide. When they have their way with a card (such as sharpen their claws or use it as an alternative litter box) is when I throw it away xp
The system has it's flaws, as some cards are gone the morning of their celebrating day while some hang around for nearly a year later, but kitty behavior is something that's very hard if even possible to control.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

All of mine except for a very few end up in the trash. 99% of the cards I get don't have any personal messages in them except for 'Happy b-day!', none of which are worth keeping. Why keep them around?

Sass' last card to me was funny enough to warrant displaying it though, so that is one of the few exceptions.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I've got various cards from years ago dotted around the house. Whenever i tidy my room (rare occurance) i always find some cards from birthday and christmas around. I only keep the ones i really like and the ones from close friends and family though. I throw away most of them. If i didn't, there would just be mounds of cards everywhere.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I have a hat box from one time when my husband game me a PajamaGram. I save all my cards and keep them in the hat box. When I'm feeling depressed I take them out and read them.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I usually leave them out for a little while, then, unless there's something especially funny or meaningful inside, I throw it out. I have no use for old cards.

How ya doing, buddy?

Tear out to use the blank side for writing something. I hate deciding what to throw away. I hate it more to waste things. I see if possible to recycle.

No one sends me greeting cards these days.

FELIPE NO

I used to feel terrible to even consider throwing away greeting cards. Now it's commonplace. I'd eventually find greeting cards in my drawers tucked away in the obscure back areas or under clothes and items.

Due to my increasing paranoia, if it's still in the envelope, I mutilate the front of the envelope with all the address info, and then recycle the comparatively blank back.
As for the greeting cards themselves, they go into the recycling bag. I actually trashed my last leftover one yesterday when I was cleaning up my box.

No remorse though, as they usually contain generic messages, or are merely moneyholders with no message (!), or just the date. The only interesting writing I get is in the letters sent by my friends, not in greeting cards.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I never get any kind of important kinds of cards so I usaully throw em' away.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I keep every card I get, since I just can't get myself to throw those away. Do I ever look at them, though? No.

I have this huge box of cards, complete with envelopes.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'm a pack rat so I just keep them around and some months (or years) later I find them again.

How ya doing, buddy?

E.T. handles my cards, but I only keep the ones that look cool, or in the case of that giraffe thing, ridiculous.



I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You can reuse old Christmas cards as birthday cards by crossing out "Christmas" and writing in "Birthday", or making "On this day our saviour was born" into "On this day you were born". There are a couple people I know who find this pretty funny, but most people will just think you're cheap.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I keep all of them for a few years usually and then trash the ones that wern't very personal or pretty. Then I can keep the next lot, and so on. I don't look at mine either; they just sit there in a box I have in my room.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

all the ones from school got thrown away pretty much the week after receiving them since i felt they were meaningless and were just another form of a popularity contest. a few birthday cards are still lying around in my top draw at home from the past 2-3 years though.

How ya doing, buddy?

I toss them, all of them, after a couple of weeks. It's nice when you get them but then it's just a bunch of clutter which has no value to me at all.

I never quite understood the "greeting card hording" that many people engage in. The real value is in the time you spent with the people who gave you the card, not the card itself.

I do keep letters and postcards though.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

They tend to end up on my counter for a few weeks before they're either tossed or moved somewhere else.

I'm not big in keeping greeting cards, though occasionally there'll be one or two that I keep because they're funny or because of who the card was from.

Jam it back in, in the dark.