to think cards should only be displayed for one week max?

[ShannonNoah]

Birthday/Valentines/Congratulations/Mothers Day etc cards.

Just visited a friend, her birthday was 2 weeks ago and she still had the cards up. I generally take mine down after a week.

I suppose Christmas cards can be the exception.

Yabu. Cards are a celebration. I say keep the party going as long as poss!

We still have our valentine's cards up, but in our bedroom.
I always had birthday cards for 1 week as my DSIS birthday is exactly one week after mine so she insisted on taking mine down!

Please don't come to my house - I still have a Valentines card up, anniversary cards from the beginning of this month alongside my Mother's Day cards

Ive still got my Mothers Day cards up.

YABU in other people's houses its up to they how long they keep their cards up.

YABU, I like to display my cards for a week but it really wouldn't bother me if I visited someone who still had cards up from an occasion that happened 2 weeks ago, It's there choice.

2 weeks! And you're still speaking to her? Good gracious. She might have any number of similarly shaming habits.

I normally do a week.

But my mothers day card from DS may stat up forever a while longer :)

YABU. There's no "rule" about cards. It's entirely up to the individual. If people want to keep cards up then why shouldn't they? I can't understand why it bothers you.

I can't understand why it bothers you

It doesn't bother me

I was just wondering if people did the same.

I always take them down exactly one week after they go up.

Always.

I thought everyone did!

Same FolkGirl that's why I was asking.

I am probably very entitled by asking though

I used to save my cards and put them up every year.

Not all the cards I got, but I would save them and go through them and remember people who had been in my life at one time or another but for whatever reason weren't in it any more - eg old college friends I'd lost touch with.

And a 3 year old card from them would go next to a 5 year old card from a school friend next to a card I got that year from a friend next to an 8 year old card from a late aunt, etc.

I lost all that sentimentality many, many years ago, now I tell people not to bother with cards and if they do, they tend to get binned after they've been read and I don't remember people who were once in my life. Now I walk away without a backward glance.

I do sometimes wonder if I've lost something that was special about me. Or whether my young self was a total cringeworthy arse.

DP would take them down the next day if he could!

I'm too slatternly to remember that is has been a week. Also, if it's a card your DC has made you, that's too cute to just take down quickly.

Twit

A card monitor...

I leave birthday cards up for a month, and other ones until something else requires them to move. They're nice.

Depends - cards were left up for an entire month after the births of my children For regular birthdays/anniversaries, a week is about how long I can have them up for before they start getting on my tits.

I've still got a birthday card up that DD2 made for me, my birthday was in January. I leave cards up for weeks, I was at a friend's house on Monday and her sons birthday cards are still up, that's been a few weeks now. I'd never heard of anyone taking them down after a week.

Um. In my house, the cards stay up until the next birthday/Easter/Mothers Day/whatever.

I've just taken the Chirstmas cards down. They were on a string out of the way and I never seemed to remember at an oportune moment.

I still had christmas cards up until my birthday in feb, only took them down to replace them. We are lazy, but also they hang on a string in the living room and it gives the wall a feeling of lived-in as we don't have any pictures up there yet.

I take mine down the next day. I couldn't have them up for longer. It would drive me nuts.

A week? Mine last for the day and then they are gone