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To have chucked all my christmas cards in the bin?

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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:
ilovepowerhoop · 22/12/2013 18:50

we have an over the door card holder that holds lots of cards. It hangs on the living room door

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HerlockSholmes · 22/12/2013 19:06

i never thought of putting them in his room, will remember that for next year.

i did recycle them, well they went in the blue bin, we used to hand them into school to be cut up into bookmarks but they dont do that any more seemingly.

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Tillyscoutsmum · 22/12/2013 19:10

I haven't even opened any. They're all in a pile. They'll probably be read and put straight into recycling. With three December birthdays in our house, there's just no room for more cards Confused

ToffeeOwnsTheSausage · 22/12/2013 19:11

Over the years mine have been pegged onto strings and hanging card display thingymajigs, blue tacked on to doors and the bannister wall thingymajig, on the mantelpiece on the kids put some of theirs on their room.

PeriodFeatures · 22/12/2013 19:14

god, how depressing, chucking out your xmas cards from people who have taken time to send them because they are thinking of you.

Mean spirited, miserable people.

WhenSarahAndStuckUpTheChimney · 22/12/2013 19:16

Can you stick them on the backs of doors with blu tack next year?

Or on a ribbon as Don'tMind suggested?

Or send them to me so I can cut them up and sew them together again Xmas Smile

PeriodFeatures · 22/12/2013 19:20

Or send them to me so I can cut them up and sew them together again

Please explain this! ^^

MrsDavidBowie · 22/12/2013 19:20

Usually I string mine up in the hall, festooned with tasteful silver angels .
This year, they are sitting in a. Pile in my office.

I may put them up tomorrow.

Rhubarbgarden · 22/12/2013 19:21

Smallclanger nailed it with 'odd and joyless'.

I can't believe you don't have enough wall space to blu tack a few Christmas cards up. I hate clutter myself, but extending that to Christmas cards? Ffs.

WhoKnowsWhereTheMistletoes · 22/12/2013 19:22

I used to despair of what to do with cards, we have very few surfaces to stand them on and every time someone opened the front door they all fell over. Then we bought a free standing wire Christmas card holder, it stands on the mantelpiece and holds around 100 cards securely while only taking up a space about 12" x 5". I love sending and receiving cards.

fluffyraggies · 22/12/2013 19:22

After xmas me and the DCs sit and cut out all the card fronts into tags for next years presents. It's fun - big ones, little ones, all different. You can get quite creative with the shapes. You can get 2 or 3 out of the big ones.

Marne · 22/12/2013 19:23

Shock, I love Christmas cards, all of mine go up on strings and the bigger posh ones go on my mantel piece, they stay up until I take the decorations down they get recycled or made into gift tags for next Christmas.

Joysmum · 22/12/2013 19:24

The people who are thinking of us let us know by keeping in touch and not because we are on a list of people they have to send cards to. Hell, we even do the same and email or phone people as individuals. I only do cards for those I see on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, anyone else I think is important doesn't need a card which basically says bugger all and takes no thought.

It's fine to have different thoughts about the importance of cards and other things in life.

cardibach · 22/12/2013 19:30

I stick mine to the doors at some point - usually late on Christmas Eve with bad grace. I don't send them anymore because I think they are a waste of money which would be better given to charity or spent on essentials. I give money to charity and let everyone know I have done that. I still get loads though and, while I appreciate the thought and the effort I don't actually like the card. I'd rather people said Merry Christmas or emailed or something.

herladyship · 22/12/2013 19:31

Read & recycle is the motto here!

We don't send cards & only put a few on mantelpiece from close family

YANBU

HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 22/12/2013 19:32

Period. They are not thinking of us.
my neighbours all send them. I dont exchange more than a polite nod with them all year round. They are not thinking of me.
Nor are the 30 young kids that write the cards to my youngest, half of them spelling his name wrong. And the 30 odd who send a card to my eldest, at least 5 of whom appear to think his name is gareth. They arent thinking of us.
nor is the methodist church thinking of us as this years unsigned and unnamed card pops through the door. They cant be thinking of us cos they dont even know our names.

people dont send cards because theyre thinking of you. They send them because youre on a list. Its tradition. Everyone else is doing it.

the only people I DON'T get cards from are those who are thinking of me.

they're going to be found round my table on boxing day or chatting with me on skype.

herladyship · 22/12/2013 19:33

here here Hec!

cardibach · 22/12/2013 19:33

Joy when I wrote cards the only people I didn't write them for were the ones I would see aver the festive period! What on earth is the point of giving a card to someone you will see and say Merry Christmas to?

Joysmum · 22/12/2013 19:33

HEC That's it in a nutshell. Brilliant post.

Swanbridge · 22/12/2013 19:35

At 50p for a second class stamp, you should mention it to these people who are bothering to send you one so everyone can heave a sigh of relief and stop.

Freddiefrog · 22/12/2013 19:41

Hear hear HEC

I did have a couple of strings up but they fell down and the cards are all now down the back of the telly. They can stay there until I put the telly back where it usually goes when the Christmas tree comes down on Boxing Day

I hate cards, as odd and joyless as that may be Hmm

Idespair · 22/12/2013 19:48

You don't need bare walls to put a string up. I have a string going from a place on one wall to a place on another wall. So the only space being taken up by Christmas cards is the space in mid air, which nothing or nobody could otherwise occupy. It looks really nice, kids love it.
My string got full. I put another up.

MudCity · 22/12/2013 19:53

Am with the OP 100%. Mine get put in a pile and recycled promptly.

KrabbyPatty · 22/12/2013 19:55

Cards annoy me. I have space but I hate the look of them.

We have a pile on the desk in the study. I've been waiting for shops to have their card recycling bins as I don't think you can put cards in any of the myriad household bins?

We don't send any. I wish people would stop sending them to us!

RobinSparkles · 22/12/2013 20:02

Confused Stick them on the wall/doors with blutack!

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