To recycle Christmas cards the moment I receive them

[Hellotheresweet]

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!

Really? I couldn't imagine literally reading it, and then chucking it straight in the bin

Yeah I must admit that I do this too.

Where we live at the moment we have limited space to display cards. I open them, read them, make sure I've sent one to whoever it is, then in the recycling they go.

My gratitude for the sentiment is not dependent on how long I have them displayed.

I do hold onto the odd one and keep them in a little memory box -- I have some from my grandmother, who died a few years ago, and some early ones from my husband when we were first going out.

@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! What if there are photo's/ letters/ messages/ money etc inside them?

If you don't open them surely you could be contaminating the recycling as not all cards can be recycled, just to add to your ignorant behaviour

I do the same. I have a hatred of anything that doesn't DO anything - ornaments, pictures, scatter cushions and - yes, Christmas cards. I don't send them myself and don't care to receive them. I only ever get about three anyway (probably because of the above!).

My brother uses them.as shopping lists the same day. Clearly runs in the family. I am not as brutal. They languish in a drawer.

No BU at all. Any I receive go straight in the bin. Can't be bothered with the clutter. People have slowly learned not to waste their time thankfully

@Hellotheresweet isn't doing the worst thing I've heard of, though - when my ds was in Year 1, one of his friends made a Christmas card for the teacher and, when his mum had to nip into the classroom for something he'd forgotten, she saw the card in the bin. I get why she wouldn't keep the kids' home made cards forever, but at least wait until they've left the playground before binning them!

Why not upcycle them into tags for gifts?

And yes, what the teacher did wasn't the worst thing ever, either - I was indulging in a bit of hyperbole.

If Yabu then so am I (and I suspect we both are but I don’t care!).
I do exactly the same. Most people know now that I don’t send them one so we hardly receive any thank god. The minute I do, I open it, read dear chosen and family, from c and family, and just think “I can’t believe you wasted an card, envelope, pen ink, a walk to the postbox etc to write out names out.” What a waste of time.
Hate them, clutter.

OP, I'm pretty sure I know where your violin will be.......

We keep all ours in a pile and on xmas eve we cut them out, put them in a frame take a photo of Dd holding it in front of the tree and they go in the loft ready to come down the following years for extra decorations. My Dd is 13 now and we have 10. They get smaller every year and this years I think will be very small, but its our thing and we love it.

* @Hellotheresweet isn't doing the worst thing I've heard of, though *

Oh you’re too kind

Oh god YES!!! I don’t see the point in Xmas cards other than a waste of money and resources. I open them and put in a pile to do something with later.
I have an argument every year with my mum about sending people cards. I just don’t see the point

I like a bit of festive cheer. So once a year, brightly coloured decorations which are not part of the usual colour scheme don't go amiss.
It's nice that someone has made the effort to think of me. And I like thinking of them when I write my own. These are all people who I have known well over the years or neighbours doing the neighbourly thing. For the neighbours I rarely speak to or even see it's a little like saying... if you need anything in the year I'm your friend even if we only exchange cards.
They hang on ribbons so no clutter.

@Hellotheresweet

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!

That is incredibly thoughtless.

And the presumably the definition of thoughtful is to

Open, squeeze on to a shelf that no one looks at and then recycle after... what? One week (or would that be semi-thoughtless?), two weeks (perhaps that thoughtful?) and then three week (amazingly thoughtful?)

Yes?! Ok. Lesson noted.

I'd be so hurt if i gave you a card and you immediately threw it away.

Just say no cards please saves the price if the stamp & card for a start

@Hellotheresweet

And the presumably the definition of thoughtful is to

Open, squeeze on to a shelf that no one looks at and then recycle after... what? One week (or would that be semi-thoughtless?), two weeks (perhaps that thoughtful?) and then three week (amazingly thoughtful?)

Yes?! Ok. Lesson noted.

Actually you’re wrong. I dislike cards on display except for a very few family cards. The rest I put in a large bowl, perhaps near some Christmas greenery. I certainly wouldn’t dream of discarding them so soon. It’s rude to do so given that the senders have made the effort.

Ah, so it’s a bowl that would make me thoughtful. Super thoughtful if the bowl is positioned near some Christmas greenery.

If it makes you feel better, my recycling bin is near to some Christmas greenery. It’s not bowl shaped though. Damn!

What a learning experience this thread is becoming!

Just to add, fir your benefit, I would put them into recycling on Twelfth Night when the decorations are put away. Maybe if you didn’t put up your decorations in late November, you wouldn’t have such a massive problem with “clutter”? Hmm?

...for your benefit...

@Hellotheresweet

Ah, so it’s a bowl that would make me thoughtful. Super thoughtful if the bowl is positioned near some Christmas greenery.

If it makes you feel better, my recycling bin is near to some Christmas greenery. It’s not bowl shaped though. Damn!

What a learning experience this thread is becoming!

You sound a tad defensive.

I had friends who did the same, and actually threw it into the recycling bag while I was sat there after they'd just opened it which I thought was a bit rude.

It's up to you what you display, though. You could always put a post on social media explaining that you're not sending cards (I always do a charitable donation instead as it makes me look less miserable) and that you don't wish to receive them, either.