Birthday Cards

[losgigs]

Well as my birthday was on Good Friday, it seems time to take down the cards. I must be getting sentimental in my old age but I don't want to get rid of them. It wasn't even a special birthday (that's next year, gulp) but the cards are so nice from all my lovely family & friends that I can't even bear to put them in the cardboard recycling bin, What do you do with your old cards?

[albaqwerty]

Belated birthday wishes xxx

I've an old shoe box where the birthday cards trundle to, then I have a clear out of them every so often, some lovely pictures are even framed, then they go into a box so I can hang them from a wall.

However, the following year, when the cards go into the box and get sorted, out comes the box with the framed ones and new ones go in (you get the drift?!)

[MallyJ]

Frame the best ones or stick them on the front of a notebook /diary.... there are some lovely ones out there.

[losgigs]

Thanks alba. Good idea with the shoe box but I don't think I'd ever throw out the previous year's cards. If it was just me, I'd be a terrible hoarder, but Mr los has a major clear-out every so often. (he hasn't found the box of wedding cards yet - well you've got to keep those, haven't you?)

[albaqwerty]

the wedding cards HAVE to be kept at all costs.
When we were moving house and having a serious de-clutte, Mr Alba wanted to throw them out.
The choice was keep them or lose them and your knee-caps.
Quite a simple choice, I thought ;-)

[lady-janine]

alba you never said mr a was in a wheelchair

[Buenchico]

I've been sorting out loads of old Christmas cards this week, some of which I've had for decades! I've kept a few from people who are special to me (and one or two in the hope that I might eventually remember who they people were who sent them to me!) but thrown the rest away.

Birthday cards? What are they? I've not received one for many a long year :(

[losgigs]

Oh Chris, that's really sad. Is it because no-one knows when your birthday is? On the other hand, you've probably saved a few trees over the years...

[lady-janine]

not even one from patches? she did give you a special present.

[Maydup]

I have trouble throwing them away but I make myself do it. If there is a really really pretty one, I might cut the picture off and use it as a book mark.

At Christmas, i make next year's gift tags by cutting the nicest images into smallish rectangles and using a hole punch for a ribbon.

[Prudie]

I keep the ones from mother/partner/daughter and shove them in a cupboard, don't know why.
My mum's birthday was in early December and she kept her cards up all over the living room until they could be replaced with Easter cards!

[Buenchico]

Losgigs:
Birthdays have always been very low-key for me. (I was 61 last Sunday. I just had a couple of beers down the pub with my regular Sunday night boozing pals)

Lady-J:
My reason for a short delay in posting is that Patches has just given all four of those special presents a feed, while standing on my knee. I needed both hands to stop them all falling off ;-)

[Ann]

Happy Belated Birthday losgigs - You are now entered in the AB birthday book! x

[sherrardk]

I have every one of the kids' birthday cards. I going to 'do something' with them (eventually).

[Ann]

//Birthday cards? What are they? I've not received one for many a long year :( //

Ah shame Chris - but you did get plenty of AB online greetings! :)

[lady-janine]

oh oohh a toy boy hope they are all doing well. it sounds as though they are.

[Buenchico]

Ann:
While you're adding birthdays to your list, please add our antipodean friend, Seekerz: 21st Feb.

[masma]

losgigs... Snap! My birthday was on Good Friday too.. I've still got my cards up, I usually keep them up for a week but because it was Easter I decided to add a few days (I love having cards up then I don't have to dust the mantlepiece) I keep the special ones and recycle the rest, I've got boxes of cards in the loft - good luck to whoever has to clear our house out when we're 'pushing up the daisys'

[losgigs]

Belated birthday greetings to you too, masma. Like you, I prefer to keep them up longer to put off the dusting! Same to Chris for last Sunday. Thanks to Ann aswell. I always wondered who the official 'birthday-book keeper was!

[jamesnan]

My birthday was 20th March, and I still have my cards, plus my mother's day cards on display - I keep being asked when they are going to be removed!

[Caran]

I never throw cards away. I cut them into strips and use for shopping and reminders.