Monday, February 21, 2011

Saving Holiday Greeting Cards

Now that the major greeting card holidays have passed, I'm left with a stack of greeting cards. I definitely prefer the surprise of a mailed greeting card over and e-card, but after years of collecting them I'm not quite sure what to do with them. When I was a child my mom would make placemats out of my leftover greeting cards using contact paper. While I think this is a clever idea I don't think this would be appropriate at my dinner table now!

One of the blogs I follow, Small Notebook, suggested creating stacks of cards from those most important in your life and filing them away.  

Photo Credit: Small Notebook
Another method they suggest for Christmas cards specifically is scanning them, especially those with photos and saving them on your hard drive.

Right now I have Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's and Nia's Dedication cards to file, plus a host of others from years past. Rather than try to tackle them all at once I think I'll start with the most recent and work my way back.  

Do you have any other methods for tackling your greeting cards?

3 comments:

  1. I have about 100 cards in a shoe box. =( I like the ideas you've give so far and I'll be checking back for others. A few months ago I was close to tossing them all out in the garbage, but I refrained.

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  2. keep the most sentimental ones and toss the others. i also like saving cards but i have TOO many!

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  3. keep the most sentimental ones and toss the others. i also like saving cards but i have TOO many!

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