Christmas cards

[vgqn]

What do you do with the Christmas cards you've received, after the season's over? Recycle them in the paper bin? Save the photo cards? Save the ones with personal messages? Use them creatively somehow? Give them to some organization? (It seems to me I've heard of a place that accepts them, though I can't imagine they wouldn't receive more than they could possibly use.)

When I was growing up, my mom used them to make gift tags, and we would help. It was fun studying a card a trying to figure how best to cut it up to make an interesting tag. But somehow, I just don't see myself doing that these days. At least, I haven't yet.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I have a plan for mine, which you will hear about in a few days, after they stop trickling in.

K.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

I usually hang on to them, as correspondence. Even if I were to purge some, I'd save the ones w/actual content (personal messages) and photo cards.

Maybe a local school or something would like the pretty pages? Dunno.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I usually save them (especially those with personal messages), thinking someday to make a scrapbook with them or something. I don't know if I ever will.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I read them as they come in, smile at the thought of the people from whom they come, show them to Glenn, and then sternly recycle them.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

I am in awe.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I don't get many cards (since I don't send them), so I have fewer decisions to make. I toss the impersonal ones from business people, keep the pictures and correspondence. The best ones made it to my refrigerator door, but that's pretty crammed by now.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I recycle them; might as well admit it.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

No, no, I'm impressed. I need to do something similar. You and Kate are inspirational. Though I'm still going to save the photo cards and probably a lot of the letters.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

I used to save them all. After 25 years of not doing anything with them, I started recycling most of them. That usually happens long after the season is over -- I tend to leave them taped to my kitchen cupboards past Valentine's Day, and often until spring.

The gift tags idea is a clever one. Hmmm...maybe I'll try it!

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

I recycle most of them. The ones that I really like (generally very clever ones with cats), I hang onto. I use them as bookmarks in hardback books or may put one up on a wall at work or in my home office.

[vgqn.livejournal.com]

Bookmarks, that's clever.