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To have chucked all my christmas cards in the bin?

80 replies

HerlockSholmes · 22/12/2013 18:00

basically i have a tiny living room with no furniture on which to sit cards. i have taken all ds' nursery cards and neighbour ones down from the wall stringy thing and put family cards up there and one ds made as there wasn't room for all of them.

i decided there was no point in keeping a pile of random cards from people i dont even speak to that often so have chucked them, mum says this was mean of me but ive been trying to declutter and keep the housr looking nice for christmas, whats the difference between binning them and shoving them in a drawer, really?

OP posts:
trinity0097 · 22/12/2013 18:01

You should have put up another string, then recycled after Xmas.

threespecialsteps · 22/12/2013 18:02

Seems sensible to me.

Weeantwee · 22/12/2013 18:03

Well if the people who have given you the cards aren't going to pop round anytime then I don't see the problem. I don't have any space either so there are a few cards on the floor near the tv.

BrokenFairylights · 22/12/2013 18:04

I'm with you 100% op I've got a pile that wont go up as I don't have space.

sooperdooper · 22/12/2013 18:04

Bah bumbug! Couldn't you have put them on another string?

DoYouLikeMyBaubles · 22/12/2013 18:04

I'd have just added another string to be honest. They've taken the time and spent the money to send you a card.

But your house, up to you.

WitchWay · 22/12/2013 18:04

Sounds reasonable. Mine are in a pile as husband's clutter has taken over the hall cabinet & he can't seem to find time to move it & I'm bloody well not doing it.

Trills · 22/12/2013 18:06

It sounds logical but feels a bit ungrateful and not in the spirit of things.

ThatIsIt · 22/12/2013 18:07

I stopped sending Christmas cards a good few years ago, I used to have to stick them all around door frames, on strings etc, there were just too many. It is amazing how when you stop sending cards, you stop getting them, I only get about half a dozen now, and I don't even put them up, I read them and recycle.

CaptainSweatPants · 22/12/2013 18:07

I blu tack them to the doors
Cheer the place up

NoComet · 22/12/2013 18:07

You need sting with pegs, keeps cards looking tidy.
Throwing them out before 12 night is mean.

WreckTangle · 22/12/2013 18:08

I like to keep the little ones and use them as gift tags the following year, could you do that and recycle the rest?

FariesDoExist · 22/12/2013 18:09

Mean

TheSmallClanger · 22/12/2013 18:11

Bollocks to decluttering. It is okay to have stuff about.

If someone I know told me that they read Christmas cards and threw them away because they didn't want "clutter", I would tell them I thought they were a bit odd and joyless.

I do not understand this modern obsession with being proud of being a ruthless chucker away of things.

ThatIsIt · 22/12/2013 18:18

I personally do not read a card and throw it away due to clutter issues, if that is directed at me? I have a disability, it hurts to write cards, to open envelopes, and deal with them in general makes me feel ill, to you it is probably a nothing job to deal with them to me it uses up precious energy and makes me feel ill. Just accept that some people just don't want them, there is nothing nasty it in, it is just not wanted.

Chocovore · 22/12/2013 18:20

Could you hang DS' cards in his room?

TheSmallClanger · 22/12/2013 18:22

No, not aimed at you, your point was different.

fuckwittery · 22/12/2013 18:24

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FariesDoExist · 22/12/2013 18:27

Just put them in a pile

Original poster
HerlockSholmes · 22/12/2013 18:28

believe it or not, i only have room for the one string or i would have more than one up. i have quite a large house but the living room is tiny in proportion and the hall has no bare walls either or i mightve strung some ip there.

i feel a bit guilty now but they'd have sat in the drawer in the sode table for a month then got put in the bin anyway.

OP posts:
procrastinatingagain · 22/12/2013 18:36

I completely sympathise and was thinking of throwing away all the cards ds got from school. I just can't see the point and I haven't got enough room. I would keep them if I had a bigger house, but there's just no room here!

DontmindifIdo · 22/12/2013 18:45

I got v annoyed with them all last year, however a nice sensible mner on the Christmas section advised getting some ribbon, securing to the top of a door with a drawing pin, then stapling the cards to it. It does look nice, requires less space than putting up a string, and solves the clutter issue.

DontmindifIdo · 22/12/2013 18:46

Oh and why don't you put the cards from ds's friends in his room?

HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 22/12/2013 18:49

Mine go straight in the recycling on boxing day. It feels rude to throw them straight out, which is what id prefer to do, but it seems -to me- to cross a line almost into contemptuous. I send out about 5 cards, and theyre just to elderly relatives. I really dont see the point of them. Particularly the whole class thing. Its just a chore. I bet none of them even notice they havent had a card off my kids.

kinkychristmas · 22/12/2013 18:50

YABU - you could have recycled them.