Order of service at funerals. How to dispose of them?

[Mydogisagentleman]

I recently attended the cremation of a woman I was very fond of.
I cared for her in a residential setting.
I have 4 others of these cards, they are in a pile that moves from the living room to near the kitchen bin.
On the one hand I don't want to keep them forever, but on the other I don't know whether to put them in the ordinary rubbish or recycling bins.
In the past, I have sensibly left them at the venue

I just put things like that into the recycling. Similar to my children's artwork and craft realistically I can't keep it all

I keep them in the bookshelf too. I think the people concerned would appreciate being in with the books.

I kept my Mum's. I leave others at venue.

Put them in the bin ..

@Mrsjayy well, to be fair, most are wider family and I can’t be the only one doing it because there appears to be a formula of the same four hymns.

It did mean that having organised my DGM’s funeral, we were able to repeat it for her sister and I was able to repeat it for my mother 🙂A bit like a teachers lesson plan, perhaps?

And it is easier having the various readings suitable for a funeral laid out for you rather than picking your way through the whole bible. Most of my circle is Catholic so, really, the only personal bit is the eulogy.

The odd one was when I had to do the readings once because none of her (the deceased) perfectly capable GC’s were prepared to do it. My friend the organising DIL entertained herself with the “who’s that?” thought that went through the church when I stepped up.

Perhaps my friends and I like each other because we share the same pragmatism about things that need to be done. And what’s the alternative if you don’t know where to start? Ask randoms on the internet? No thanks. I’d rather thought and care from people I know and love.

We had lots left over from my parent funerals, I kept some behind to frame and spare for dds. Those I had as spare I offered to family and friends who couldn’t attend. The rest went through recycling.

I would shred it because of GDPR, since it contains personal info about the person and their family. Can't you take it to your workplace for disposal? I don't think it's disrespectful to throw it away.

Over the past few years I've made the OOS for my granda, aunty and my mam. I only kept my mam's. It wasn't a religious service so I filled it with photographs and a poem my sister wrote, rather than readings or hymns.

I'd like to think family kept a copy of my mam's given the content, but at the end of the day it was made to serve a purpose during the service. I have a few copies the funeral director handed back to me, I sent one to an old friend of my mam's, and if the rest ended up in the bin then so be it.

Funnily enough had this conversation with a friend the other day, he said I still have A’s order of service. A died this time last year, very unexpectedly at the age of 55.

He said any idea what I should do with it, I said has the fact that A is dead stopped taking your breath away, he replied No, I said my measure on this apart from very close family is, when I can look at and go aahh they were great times and not feel sucker punched, then I shred it.

I shred them as I would hate for one to blow away when the bin is emptied.

I generally don't take them from the venue unless it's a close relative but have taken them when another relative couldn't be there only to find out half the family had the same idea and I didn't need to pass them on.

I put them in the recycling bin.