Birthday cards...how long do you keep Birthday cards up for?

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In my house it's about a week...what do you do?

About a month. Although mine are only up for 12 days as DDs birthday is 12 days after mine.

formerbabe. That’s so ungrateful, tell your friends & family to stop sending you cards if you bin them after opening them.

I didn't even want to put mine up last week. They are messy and a pain to polish around so they go in the bin after a day or so.

formerbabe that's a bit rude.

Those critising Formerbabe, obviously don't have Family /Friends who don't respe t your wishes.

My Sister buys me cards and balloons, even though she is asked not to. Gift giving, for her, is about her. She is kicking up a fuss be a use we want a no present Christmas. We always get her what she wants, whilst we get handed a load of crap.

Mine go straight In to the recycle bin. My children don't buy me cards and my youngest doesn't want them, either.

Pictures/cards my Granddaughter makes me go up for a couple of days.

I don't understand all the fuss about cards. I also open them and then pop them in the recycling. I do ask people to not send them, have done for years. The only ones who listen are my parents and DH. Everyone else still sends. I don't think it's rude, why should we have to put things up in our own home, if we don't want to?

Side note, I do love homemade cards from my kids though.

I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate they sent it. I just don't see much point in putting it on display once I've read it. I also don't seem to have any surfaces to put them on...very few shelves and no mantelpiece

Fwiw, I don't throw away cards my dc do for me or cards which are personalised with photos.

I’m the same as formerbabe. There’s only me and whilst I’ve a wide circle of friends, I only got 3 cards this year (we just don’t send them) and I hate clutter.

A maximum of one week generally and then they are either kept or ‘recycled’. I can’t imagine putting them straight in the bin!

Why do you keep these cards up? Is it for yourself or visitors?

A week.
But I still have my late DGM last birthday card to me pinned to my bedroom wall and will never throw it away.
I wish I had kept her last Christmas card.

A couple of weeks or until the next occasion whichever comes first. Christmas cards I put up until the decs come down in time for NYE xx

Just taken mine down today, birthday was end of August! 😂

Mine are still up. My birthday was 2nd of October. I'm thinking I might take them down next week.

I like looking at them and don't want to chuck them away too quickly as after all my friends and family made the effort of sending / giving them to me.

My brothers birthday is 3 days after mine so as a child they HAD to come down so his could go up.
Now, I relish in having them up for at least 5 days
But they go soon after that because I hate the clutter.
I don’t bother with displaying Christmas cards beyond the first 10 or so, they get opened and recycled straight away but people generally know my thoughts on this as I don’t send cards and tell anyone who cares that I don’t put them up so don’t tend to receive many.

@SisterOfDonFrancisco, I can't speak for everyone but it's definitely for me/us. We don't have many visitors and don't really care what they think about what's on our mantle piece or shelves.

Although we do take personal ones down during MIL visits as she is incredibly rude and will start reading them.

About a week although if any are especially beautiful I might leave that one up a bit longer.
I could never throw them straight in the bin as per a previous poster. I would consider that really offensive to the people who had bothered to remember, purchased a card and sent it. I would definitely tell those people if I preferred not to receive cards rather than waste time, money and paper.

I keep the ones from my kids. They are old enough to write so I have a lovely collection to keep.

One year my son wrote: "Happy Birthday. I love you but not in a marriage way." Which cracks me up.

Always a week.
DH birthday is the day after mine so I get prime position with my cards and his are tucked away, barely visible.

The biggest gap between birthdays / christmas here is three months. So up to 3 months 😂.

Mine stay up until I want to dust the windowsill/piano/wherever they are. This could be up to a month as I find they hide the dust rather well!

I leave them up longer than a week - especially for my DCs. Their birthday is on 7th of the month, leave them up til end of month and I always ask before I take them down.

Prob about 2 weeks . Kids probably longer than mine .

About a month.