What Do You Do With Old Greetings Cards?

[naomi24]

Cards are not cheap, but I imagine most of them, like mine, end up in the dustbin meaning millions of pounds squandered each year which seems such a waste.   What do you do with yours? 

[ToraToraTora]

I keep significant ones and put the rest in the recycling bin.

[Barmaid]

Most go in the recycling.  However, I have kept some marking really special events or some from close and dear family members and kept them safe in my family history box.

[barry1010]

The grandchildren make gift tags out of them

[davebro3]

into the recycling on the day I get them

[sandyRoe]

I happen to have a frame that fitted a birthday card I got recently.  So the card's framed and sitting on a table.

Generally cards go into the recycling bin.

[237SJ]

I cut them up and use them as shopping lists or cut them with pinking shears and turn them into gift tags.

[naomi24]

I too save the special ones - and put what I can into recycling but a lot aren't suitable for that - anything with silvery/goldie print or glitter and that sort of thing.

[barry1010]

We've got a few special ones, not many

[-SharonA-]

I use them for lists & I have made gift tags. Some are kept but most of them are binned.

[TwoShortPlanks]

I keep the ones between Mr Planks and myself, and from the Ferals (our kids). I think I've got our wedding cards in a box somewhere too. 

 

Otherwise, I stick them in the recycling. 

[bednobs]

keep them in a drawer till i have a clear out and think "wtaf did i keeo these for?" and then recycle

[Vagus]

Straight in the bin. The only cards I've kept are our wedding cards and the children's birth congratulation ones.

[youngmafbog]

I keep the special ones too, others go in the recycling if they can.

Most of the glitter ones I find are at Xmas so they get torched along with the glittery wrapping paper.

I must say, we got a lot fewer cards last year thank goodness and with postage getting rediculous hopefully that trend will stop.

 

[pastafreak]

I've kept significant occasions cards....some have ended up framed on my gallery walls. No print on them obviously. 

I've also bought some especially to be framed.

[Peter Pedant]

use a lot of bookmarks

[Jellybean30]

I make gift tags and, if I have really nice ones, I cut the picture to make my own cards.  Even make use of the 'Merry Christmas', 'Mum', 'Sister', 'Aunt' and so forth.  Oh, the life of a crafter!

 

 

[Hazlinny]

Tend to keep them in a drawer until, one day, I do a tidying blitz and they are put into recycling.  I do keep what I regard as "special" ones.

[Karamia]

Within the close family we all have 2 or 3 special cards that are our favourites previously received for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries etc and we hand them back so they can be given again and put up the next year. We don't always know which one we will be given each year and we can keep writing extra messages inside the cards to make it fun. So we never have to do the dreaded card shop looking for 'just the right verse' etc. Makes life much easier and saves a lot of money wasted on new cards each time.