Do you keep all your kids birthday cards?

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I’ve always found them hard to throw away - they don’t feel like mine to bin, if you see what I mean, and I thought they’d be nice memories - but I’ve just seen how many I’ve got. I’ve got a 5 year old and a 2 year old, so that’s seven birthdays worth!

If you bin yours, do you keep ANY? Special ones?

God no, put them in the recycling.
Why the heck would they want them when they grow up?
I don’t keep school books either, they get looked through then binned.

I keep every card from every occasion apart from Christmas (when I only keep the ones from us to kids and to each other)

When MIL passes away DH found masses of birthday cards she had kept. But not going way back, only from the mid 80s onwards.
He was going through them and they all said HB MIL from Joan etc etc. DH was ‘Who the fuck is Joan?’

So I made him chuck them. I’m sure she had never looked at them since and I’m sure we wouldn’t. It was pointless.

I’ve kept some of DDs special ones.

Yes, imagine going through them as an adult. One of my elderly relatives with a life shortening diagnosis sent back every card she’d received from all her relatives—presumably she’d kept them carefully for years. It was beyond strange to look through the cards I’d sent her as a child! Made me feel a lot less guilty about throwing things away though—I had this vision of passing them on to my children, and the archive building up and up through the generations!!

I've made mine into scrap books with party invites, photos, etc. but some of them are just cards. I know theres's a chance they'll end up in a bin one day but they do like looking through them now and then.

Am fascinated by this- do you even keep the “Dear X, Happy Birthday, love Y” ones, or just ones with significant messages? I can never wait to get them down and bin them!

Yep, even the ones that just say ‘love X’. I’ve never even considered throwing them away but i was going to transfer them to the loft and realised that she doesn’t know any of the kids from her nursery any more, and I doubt she’ll want to know their names when she’s 30!

Yes Ive kept all their birth, christening, birthday, christmas etc.

My mother kept all mine and its lovely to look back over them, although Im very sentimental about these things.
I have a box plastic storage box for each of my three children to keep all their "memories"

I would have a judicious weed through them and just keep significant ones if it were me

A mum from school once asked me how I managed art storage. I literally had no idea what she was talking about. Turned out she had kept every single painting, drawing, scribble and junk model her DCs had ever produced. She wasn’t sure what to do as her whole dining room was full of these creations, and the kids were only in year 1 and year 3! I am at the other end of the spectrum - most of the “art” is in the recycling before the paint is dry.

I have one memory box for each of mine. All sorts of stuff in it -cards, few items if clothing, drawings etc. Only rule is no more than 1 box, so I do have to be selective.

No way. My pils are hoarders and have kept everything the kids ever used from clothes to copy books at school. They sometimes come over and give dh a box of 40 year old shite which we put in the recycling.

Nope. I wouldn't look over any cards from growing up and I'm pretty sure my lo wouldn't be interested in them when they're older either so I don't keep stuff like that.

I kept all the cards in a box for a year, then replace them with the latest cards, but i kept all of the cards from Grandparents.My A/C love the fact they have Birthday,Christmas and chritening cards from their Great Grandma who is no longer here. I still have cards from my Grandparents, and Mum, i am so glad i still have them

I keep the card of DH & I as I like to write something special in it every year for birthday's, kept 1st Christmas & Birthday of close family & christening cards ☺️

I dont keep any of DDs.

However I have a card from my great grandad, I think it's from my 6th bday and he died 24 hours after writing it and I just cant bring myself to bin it. I dont really remember much about him, some faint memories but cant even remember what he looks like. Strange how I can't let it go though!