What do yous do with your Christmas cards?

[kylie122]

I usually keep them but over the years there's so many feel bad binning them but I hate clutter and junk

Keep them up til Twelfth Night then put the majority in the recycling; I might save a few from special or elderly relatives, or any that are homemade.

We burn them along with the Holly on the last day of Christmas. It’sa family tradition

@Vegetalienne
I do the same. I hate cards being sent just because it's a 'thing' you're supposed to do. Why should I honour the card from a family member that has absolutely nothing to do with us for the entire rest of the year?
And they (especially the thin, cheap cards!)are always falling off bookcases/windowsills and are annoying.
Also, I'm not religious, or materialistic, so Christmas is beginning to get on my nerves more and more as I get older.

Bloody hell. I think I am going to contact everyone that I sent a card to this year and ask if they want me to stop sending them one. Some of these answers are so depressing.

We have been sent 41 cards this year.

Us recycle them us do.

Open them, acknowledge who they came from and put them straight in the recycling.

I hate Christmas and Birthday cards - ugly, environmentally unfriendly clutter.

I’ve told people not to send them. Yet they do.

Urgh.

It means a lot to me to receive them, although it didn't when I was younger. Not from neighbours but from people I don't see regularly.
After Christmas I keep a few special ones and recycle the rest.

Our friends and family are quite scattered. A lot aren't on social media, so getting a card from someone we don't see regularly means a lot to us as well. Our cards are on the mantelpiece, hearth and bookshelves. They will be removed and reused/recycled after the new year.

The people who chuck them straight in the bin have probably already packed the decorations away on Boxing Day! Many people enjoy sending and receiving cards and spreading a bit of Christmas joy but each to their own.

@Vegetalienne

Thankfully we only get a few from older family members. They’re put in the recycling straight after opening.

Charming

Cut up for gift tags, recycle the rest.

@Georgieporgie29

Do you do the same with birthday cards?

@drpet49 I don’t actually but that sounds like a good idea, I may just start doing it now thanks.

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor

Take the backs off and use them as shopping lists and bin the fronts.

I do the same. My Nan always used the fronts for shopping lists, so I've always followed suit.

Give them to the kids for arts and crafts

I like getting ones to the old owners of our house (6 years). Bonus if it has a round robin letter inside. Although it makes me a bit sad that she hasn't bothered updating these people but is considered enough of a friend to send a card to.

I usually recycle but this year I may use the fronts as shopping lists. Good idea.

A friend reuses the fronts and stitches some plain card on the back for her message. I admire her commitment to ♻️.

Either cut them in half and use for gift tags, or put them in the recycling.

Keep my daughters, recycle everything else.

I used to use the backs for shopping lists, but I use an app on my phone, but I might go back to using the backs before recycling them.

@Vegetalienne

Thankfully we only get a few from older family members. They’re put in the recycling straight after opening.

I put mine into the recycling without opening them!

/Scrooge

I keep them just until the following year to help me remember, when writing next year's cards, who was born/moved house/ had a bereavement, when I'm writing a letter inside to friends I haven't seen in the past year.

I really like hearing from friends who live at a distance or particularly abroad; it just maintains a thread of connection that hopefully we can pick up again in the future.

Once i've written the cards, I cut up the nice ones to use as gift tags like many PPs.

Give cards to immediate family only. I give a donation to our local animal sanctuary instead of wasting money on all and sundry.

Either take them to the first school I work in after Christmas so their foundation stage classes can cut them up and use them or I sling them in the recycling bin.

Give them to a friend who recycles them into beautiful cards and gift tags which are sold to raise money for charities.

They get stuck up on the living room door until the new year, then I cut them up to turn them into next years gift tags! The off-cuts just get recycled.