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!

@jambeforeclottedcream

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

Exactly. I’m sure that wouldn’t be too onerous a task...

I use old Xmas cards to let ds cut them up with my pinking shears to make gift tags and I let him glitter them up too.

Didn't like the clutter of the cards in my v small house. But appreciate the thought and effort the sender had gone to. They got put in a pile by the door and binned on boxing day.

Now in a larger house I have displayed the cards received this year. They look very nice as decoration and I'm grateful to have received them from friends/ family. Must admit I haven't been sent many as I went off sending them for a few years previously.

I don’t send Christmas cards but I do display any I get sent. I’ll be honest though, I couldn’t actually tell you who has or has not sent me one this year. Tbh, I’m more interested in the concept of a “garage neighbour.” What’s that then?

Only received 4 this year!

Yanbu.

I don’t see the point, especially if you see the people often. I buy them for my husband’s side since they are a card family. He writes them out and sends them off. We sit the ones received on the window sill and then once Christmas is over in the recycling bin they go. Unless there is a picture or special message, there’s no reason imo to keep them.

I don’t throw them, I pile them up on the windowsill as it makes me feel slightly less mean !

A neighbour put a card through yesterday, why they think that putting a card through my door with their spit on it is ok during a pandemic I don’t know 😡

Any saliva on the seal will be harmless.
The card will not carry the virus (see govt information about mail)
Maybe the neighbour was just trying to be friendly.

To each their own but I love receiving Christmas cards and display them as part of my decorations. We have a few internal doors with lots of little glass panes in then and I bluetac the cards to the panes of glass, they look really pretty and make me think of the friends and family who sent them to me when I see them. When I take them down I keep the pretty fronts for tags next year and recycle the rest.

I'm going to be the odd person out here! I like sending and receiving them. I think they're cheerful and a little act of sending good wishes. I think they add a festive air to the house and I like hearing from people that I don't see or live near, but want to stay in touch.
If you don't like the process, just let people know and save them the time, effort and expense. It's just a little bit of seasonal joy. Each to their own.

@pipnchops - Cross posted! Same thoughts

@Janegrey333

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?

November?! When did i say that? It was second weekend of December here. After my youngest’s birthday.

Could you not just keep them in a pile open them all on Xmas eve then recycle boxing day shows people have thought about you its a shame you just get rid straight away.

@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.

Interestingly I said sending a card to me knowing my views on cards is actually thoughtless.

@Hellotheresweet
Just a guess.

Lots of posters who don’t like “clutter” rather hilariously put their decorations - including three trees - up in November. It’s a bit ironic.

Blimey, @EggnogAndAMincepie, there must be quite a backstory there.

OP I thought I was the only person who did this, I’m not a mean person or ungrateful it just fucks with my chi!
Can’t stand them cluttering up the place, constantly falling over if a butterfly farts, having to dust round them, them dropping glitter everywhere or the dog managing to make confetti if one hits the floor.

I always open the Christmas cards sent to us...my aunt included a $20 bill this year
Please continue to send Christmas cards to the elderly and write a thoughtful note to them...sometimes yours may be the only one they've received and it let's them know they are still thought of.
My DHs elderly cousin just died(not from covid) and as she never married nor had any children nor siblings he was tasked to go through her possessions...We were quite touched when he came upon a neatly tied bundle of Christmas cards that we'd sent her over many years...most were the kind with the photo taken of our family that particular year. They must have meant something to her as she had very few other misc. papers and such and no other Christmas cards.
My 84 year old Aunt( the one who sent the $20 and is on benefits) has called me twice to thank me for our card. I wanted to send her $20 also( it's kind of a family joke that the same $20 bill has been being passed around between family members for years 😂) but I decided to send her $20 worth of postal stamps instead since she still pays her bills through the mail by check and really can't go anywhere to spend the $20.
BTW, I have French doors with many windows so I cellotape any cards to the glass panes and as I pass by the doors I am reminded of fond memories from the sender.
I do immediately recycle the ones from businesses, etc that are just part of a marketing ploy and then recycle the others at the end of the season. I also immediately recycle ones that are addressed and signed by a professional machine with no personal note as I know it was sent with a zillion others from someone's massive computerised address book.

I do love the Christmas tag idea for next year..thanks for the tip!

I wouldn’t say brutal, I’d say rude and ignorant.

What an ungrateful way to behave. Someone’s taken the trouble to write to you and that’s your attitude? Awful.