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?