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The displaying of one's Christmas cards

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TEEstheCEEsontobejolly · 15/12/2006 20:37

With 2 birthdays happening between this Sun and this coming Tues (!) and Xmas cards coming trhough thick and fast on a daily basis - what's the best way to hang cards from walls?

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DimpledThighs · 15/12/2006 21:22

I display mine in a pile on the kitchen surface along with bills, recipes and interesting bits of newspaper articles. Sometimes give them to the children to hack up into christmas pictures or I have been know to open a card read it and put it straight in the recycle bin.

I think I just don't get the whole card thing.

moondog · 15/12/2006 21:29

I'm watching you Shiraz!

fireflyxmasfairylights2 · 15/12/2006 21:31

Mine are all slid inside each other. I have a bundle of about 80 behind the TV

SpicymulledSheraz · 15/12/2006 21:33

Next year definitely doing the Oxfam thing instead of cards. What do you reckon Mooondog? BTW recycle my Xmas tree too - makes a great coat stand!!

moondog · 15/12/2006 21:36

Good move Shiraz.

You're teacher's pet now.

SueW · 15/12/2006 21:36

Ours (about 80 of em) are in a pile (DD's birthday tomorrw; DH XmasDay).

Sometime in the next week DD and I will sort them into piles of similar colours then we'll staple them together into 'pictures' to hang on the wall. On previous experience each picture is just under 1m x 1m.

DeckTheHallsWithFRAUsOfHolly · 15/12/2006 21:39

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hana · 15/12/2006 21:40

I've got cards in a xmassy napkin holder!
a few dotted around, but they all fall down through the day and it's a bit of a faff to put up again and again and again
did blue tack one year -
did ribbons another year
think I'll stikc with sticking them in the holder

I'VE send a lot of ecards this year, some v cute one about!

Yorkiegirl · 15/12/2006 21:43

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EllieHsMum · 15/12/2006 21:55

Deckthehalls You are very lucky, your house must be massive. Will you be having old fashioned sing alongs. I can hear it now ' Iam dreaming of a white xmas, just like the ones.....'(singing out of key, not sounding like big crosby at all)

EllieHsMum · 15/12/2006 21:56

oops should say bing crosby

Chamomulledwine · 15/12/2006 22:33

Anthea had some red stuff that was sticky both sides. Anyone know where she got it from?
BTW,have I missed your episode yet Yorkiegirl?

iwouldloveadollypleaseSanta · 15/12/2006 22:51

i stuck mine on a long bit of parcel ribbon this year but they keep sliding off the end! which is annoying

swedishmum · 15/12/2006 22:58

Dh and I are currently working out a plan. He's all for strips of ribbon in the hall. I'm all for keeping them stuffed behind the mirror in a pile. Never send them myself - ecards and donation to chrity far better.

hugeheadofhair · 15/12/2006 23:04

I've got mine hung on a long string pegged with tiny wooden pegs (with santas and reindeers on them, you can get them from Bakerross or something if I remember correctly)They don't fall off and make good Christmas decorations!

JanH · 15/12/2006 23:35

Last Christmas I put just family ones on the mantelpiece, including a very sweet one of first great-nephew for his first Christmas photoshopped into a little red car in a Santa hat, with his adoring miniaturised mummy and daddy waving in the distance.

A sudden draught knocked just that card into the fire

This year I will put family cards a loooong way from the fire!

JanH · 15/12/2006 23:37

Incidentally has anyone else found that most of this year's cards are basically white? Tasteful but dulldulldull!

Gingerbear · 15/12/2006 23:46

Anthea - Blue Peter Sticky Backed Plastic - got to be.

Skribble · 15/12/2006 23:56

My kids have one of these each for cards from school and I have a couple of ribbons hanging on wicker circles I made years ago, that you can selloptape cards onto.

The rest get taped together in strips, alternating lanscape and portrait cards, little bit of tape to hold shut. Means you only have to stick on the wall at the top.

Skribble · 15/12/2006 23:57

That would be one of these

JanH · 16/12/2006 00:05

See, Skribble! Most of the cards in that robin are white

CouldEquallyHaveBeenAnAardvark · 16/12/2006 00:09

I sellotape mine to our living room door in one big festive collage.

Then when I take them down on 12th night, I snip all the ones that lend themselves to it into gift tags that I use on presents the next year and the remnants go in the recycling.

I keep special ones in the DSs keepsake boxes.

supertrouper · 16/12/2006 00:12

My friends and family have all got a goat from me instead of a christmas card. Did this last year and they all got a tree. Much prefer to give the money to charity than buy cards. Not lost any friends yet from not sending them a card!

Skribble · 16/12/2006 00:15

I haven't sent any yet this year, normally very late if I remember at all.

StarrmumofRoyalBeautyBright · 16/12/2006 07:55

We have two wide alcoves in the living room that are shelved. I sellotape the cards to the edge of each shelf - keeps the surfaces free. Then I recycle them after 12th night.

Can't help feeling there are an awful lot of 'bah humbug' posters here!

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