To throw away ugly Xmas cards I receive?

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Some of the Xmas cards we've received this year are really horrible, gaudy, cheap looking things.

I don't want ugly cards on display in my house so I want to just keep the nice ones that fit with my colour scheme.

DH said he doesn't care and also doesn't want ugly cards up.

My friend came around today and was horrified by the idea that I wouldn't display every card we get, no matter how ugly.

So WIBU to dump all of the cards I don't like? We don't have any visitors over Xmas so no risk of offending anyone by this if they come and don't see their card up.

I do the same, OP. (Recycle)

I also pitch the kiddie photo cards. Give me a nice snow scene or bit of holly any day.

Hacker I can forward you some of these if you want!!

Sometimes My mum always gets paper to match whatever colour we're having that year. It's a running joke.

I never understand trendy Christmas trees. It must cost a fortune to replace all your decorations every year or so. Alternatively you go all trendy one year, can't afford to replace them and are forever stuck with a 2015 teal monstrosity.

Lea Kiddie photo cards are the worst.

fire I usually get a new scheme every three years and decorations are always Argos, HomeSense etc. so not expensive ones at all.

I hate cards so I recycle all those given too me, anyone who visits knows I dont "do" cards so they dont give me them and/or not offend to not see theirs up.
DD1 has loads and sends loads from school friends, however these are hers so are on a string under her bed, (bunk bed without a bottom bunk) so she can happily enjoy them without my lovely living room filled with tat and crappy pictures
*I dont have any colour scheme, I'm all mismatched! But ive chosen my decs because I like them, cheep & random cards aren't my thing

What Eigg said.

I am unashamedly snobby about putting up the christmas cards - learned at my mother's knee. She used to have three big poster sized pieces of gold paper that cards were stuck to, which were then hung up in the front room and dining room. Only cards deemed suitable made it onto the posters.

I have glass doors (with little panes of glass) between the lounge and dining room, and the dining room and conservatory, and I blutack the cards onto the glass. Only the cards I like the best go onto the lounge side of the door, and the rest go on the dining room side of the lounge and conservatory doors. If I really don't like a card, it doesn't go up.

At least if they are not to your taste it doesn't look as if you sent them to yourself! I put them all up although kiddie photo cards may be partially hidden. I got one last year that was bigger than all my photos of my own dc!

But where's the soul in a new tree every couple of years?

Ours has decorations collected over 30 years and is full of memories. I love my tree.

All Christmas cards should go straight in the recycling, putting them up just encourages them.

My tree is white with red dressing. But other than that anything goes.
I've only had 4 cards.
People know I don't 'do' cards.
I only send to people who I don't see often and who live a fair distance away.

YABU it only because there are many lonely folk at Xmas who would love friends to give them Xmas cards....even gaudy ones,.

My colour scheme is tacky and gaudy!!
Seriously - This is the first year I've heard of a Christmas colour scheme - is it a new thing?
My tree is a mish mash of decorations that the kids have made over the years, some from my parents, some from my grandparents and some new. They don't match but all have lovely memories of Christmasses past!
And ugly or not if someone has taken the trouble to write me a card then it goes up on the wall.

God, don't come to my house, op.
Itlooks like an elfs knocking shop

Badders - and I bet it looks bloody lovely too!!!

fireside I don't really want soul in my Xmas tree, I want it to look good!
My PILs have got a tree stuff with decorations they've collected over 35 years and most that DH and his siblings made as kids. It gives me a headache.

Isn't the point of Christmas that it has to be slightly on the edge of being tacky? My very posh inlaws, who lived in a huge house with some beautiful old furniture, had some really hideous tinsel and decorations. They would have thought that too much matching of colour schemes' was 'common'.

:) it does if I say so myself!
The decorations the DC have made at school are all on the tree, ditto paper chains made by ds2 as he has been off school poorly this week.
He also did a picture for Santa that we have put on the mantelpiece so Santa can see it when he comes down the chimney....
We have the advent candle up.
I hate the sterile silver and blue theme that seems to be everywhere ATM.
Luckily my house is not being photographed for country living so it's fine :)

I send cards (far away family and friends), about 10 per year. I get about the same number back. I make them with my 4yo son. They're very tasteful (dark green and silver). I'm sure you'd recoil in horror and use oven gloves and salad tongs to put it in an outside bin. That's entirely up to you.

I will never understand themed trees, especially ones that change every year (or even every 3). Super wasteful. I personally don't aspire to have my tree photographed for Ideal Homes magazine - or Cuntry Living either.

I'd be very sad if I found out a card I'd sent had been immediately ditched.

please recycle, there are bins in shops for them if your council doesn't take cardboard. Hurry up because as everything is now so far ahead, the bins disappear in early January.

yes, cards are a waste but far less so than the annual exchange of over priced stinks, useless clothing, 'funny' books and all the other overpackaged crap.

White lights, glass ornaments (mostly bits of old broken chandeliers attached with fishing line) and some gold bits. More or less the same each year... is this a colour scheme or just boring? Christmas cards are blue-tacked to glass internal doors; the ones I like get a prominent position, and the rest are piled in a big bowl.

Your friend was horrified?

Teal is just bluey green isn't it?

OH WOW

Did we just find the SIL who insisted someone buy new wrapping paper in silver and teal to match her scheme??!

Never thought I would be able to type this,but here goes....

WTAF!!!!