To recycle Christmas cards the moment I receive them

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I open them, read them, Chuck them in recycling.

I just don’t like the clutter and seems odd to set aside space for cards from people I hardly know.

Never binned. Always recycled.

Anyone else so.... brutal!

Why would displaying them for a couple of weeks and then doing exactly the same not be a waste

Er it’s what you do for birthdays 😂

I hope nobody ever sends you any precious photos then

Quite honestly I have no interest in other peoples photos nor their round robins come to think of it. If we are not close enough to have kept in touch then over the year then it's pretty pointless.

Anyway does anyone still send physical photos? I'm in the process of scanning those from the last century that I want to keep and getting rid of the originals

Anyway does anyone still send physical photos? I'm in the process of scanning those from the last century that I want to keep and getting rid of the originals
We send some to DH's grandmother. But I also point for myself. About 150 a year and put them in proper albums.

I keep them up on a shelf out the way, ugly ones at the back of course.

Those who bin them, don't send them I take it? how miserable!
Wishing someone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when you've not seen them all year is a way of expressing you haven't forgotten them, they are in your thoughts and you care - what's so wrong about that - most of us haven't seen family and friends for nearly a year. Misery likes company though eh.
Elderly neighbours receive a card - a reminder to them that someone cares.

I think that is a bit mean, leave until twelfth night. Probably only one recycling collection later.

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Elphame

Yes. Straight into the recycling here too. Quite often unopened! I thought I was the only one who hated them.

No I don’t send them either!

You don't even open them?! I hope nobody ever sends you any precious photos then.*

....or good or bad news.
My Ddad died last year and for some friends (they'd been friends for years) only contact was christmas cards. We wrote to those who had sent cards to tell them he had died.

I'm a bit lazy about christmas cards and dont send as many as I used to. I do send to older friends or relatives who dont do SM or whatsapp etc. And they appreciate a card.

We have ours up until Boxing Day then I cut all the nice designs and merry Christmas out of them and then they are my gift tags for the following year. The rest goes into recycling.

@KaptainKaveman

you haven't answered my question OP. Do you send out cards yourself?

Good heavens no.

To my sister and great aunt only because I know they love as use as Christmas decs

Rude much!! I'd be pissed off if I'd taken the time to go out and buy Xmas cards especially this year with Covid and the person I sent it to binned it. Someone I know binned a present I'd taken the time to buy to cheer her up. Cost me £20 because I had to post it as well. Asked her Husband if she'd received it and he said he'd heard the doorbell go when he was getting out the shower but when he asked her she said it was for upstairs. Checked on the Royal Mail tracker and it showed up as delivered. He checked the bin later and there it was. He was fuming and told me not to bother wasting my time and money again. He gave me the £20 back although I said it didn't matter

The amount we revive has dropped significantly. I only send to older relatives. We just stick them on a door, out of the way.

We only receive cards from, and send to, people we love and care about - immediate family & a few very close friends, so I keep them all and display them over the season. I keep each year’s cards for another 2 or 3 years as well. And I still have all the Christmas cards my grandmother sent me in her later years.

I peer into the envelope, if they have glitter on them (the bastards must hate me) they do not make it out of the envelope. They are then popped into the drawer until 27th, then binned. If people are going to foolishly send me cards when I tell them not to then they're not even worth my time recycling. If folk want to do Christmas that's up to them, but do not get me involved.

Birthday and Christmas - opened and put straight in recycling unless they're particularly pretty or have a special message in.

I find cards a massive waste of time and space both as sender and sendee, but I send birthday cards to friends I know appreciate them. I'd much prefer a text.

Ooh but I love a round robin! I guess I like a card that has some actual content, a generic "happy Christmas" nah, save yourselves the effort. Send a text.

I do the same. The purpose is to convey a message so once you've read it there's no need to keep it. Annoys the fuck out of me that people send cards when they see the recipient and can simply say happy Xmas or bday.

I give them straight to my 6 year old for Christmas crafting! I hate having them out, it's a constant battle to keep my tiny house tidy.

I wouldn’t send to anyone we see. My family are all in various other countries, and a couple of my DH’s siblings too.

@ImAKaren

The most Mumsnet answer ever

@Elphame

I hope nobody ever sends you any precious photos then

Quite honestly I have no interest in other peoples photos nor their round robins come to think of it. If we are not close enough to have kept in touch then over the year then it's pretty pointless.

Anyway does anyone still send physical photos? I'm in the process of scanning those from the last century that I want to keep and getting rid of the originals

You don't sound like you value other people much at all.

I print photos and have them in albums and on the wall. I hope you have a secure method of storing your digital photos so you don't lose them - if you are bothered.

Who cares what you do with them? YABU for asking AIBU

@TheSockMonster we have metres and metres of bookshelves (in a not very big house!) so it's easy to tuck cards between the spines. They don't take up space and don't fall down.

@Guga

Who cares what you do with them? YABU for asking AIBU

Totally this!

This seems to come up every year and I still can't work out why anyone needs to ask other people what to do with their cards

[quote Dillo10]@ImAKaren

The most Mumsnet answer ever[/quote]
Why thank you

@EggnogAndAMincepie

Rude much!! I'd be pissed off if I'd taken the time to go out and buy Xmas cards especially this year with Covid and the person I sent it to binned it. Someone I know binned a present I'd taken the time to buy to cheer her up. Cost me £20 because I had to post it as well. Asked her Husband if she'd received it and he said he'd heard the doorbell go when he was getting out the shower but when he asked her she said it was for upstairs. Checked on the Royal Mail tracker and it showed up as delivered. He checked the bin later and there it was. He was fuming and told me not to bother wasting my time and money again. He gave me the £20 back although I said it didn't matter

It wouldn’t be a Christmas thread without reference to covid would it!