Do you keep your greetings card?

[chanie44]

I'm in the process of having a declutter and I have some greetings cards that were given to me e.g. my last big birthday, cards when the children were born. My initial reaction was to get rid of them, but I don't know if I will regret doing so.

Do you keep your cards or do you get rid of them, if so, have you regretted it?
Ifv you keep them, where do you keep them?

I used to keep them but never ever looked at them. Then we had two deaths in the family where we had to clear out all belongings from dead relatives houses, people accumulate so much crap and tat. After rifling through theirs and numerous trips to the skip. I am very selective with what I keep now.

I keep some, very selectively, but all for my DCs' birthdays (very young still).

I am glad that my DMum kept some of my old birthday cards from childhood.

I have some boxes especially for the purpose of storing memories.

I keep the last years birthday and christmas cards from my very close family.

My dad died a few days after christmas, and someone came and took our decorations down etc and binned all of the cards. One of the biggest things that stands out in my memory of that time was realising (after bin day) that I didn't have the last card he wrote with 'Love Dad' in, it broke my heart again.

So now I can't bring myself to part with the last card sent to me by my loved ones. They get thrown out after a year when the next lot come in IYSWIM.

I've kept DD's birth, christening and 1st bday cards, but won't keep the rest.

I am however the worlds worst hoarder and overly sentimental about everything . If you are of a more reasonable disposition, then I would say just throw them away!

Well I've kept almost every card from 0 to 18, plus congrats on GCSE/Alevel, driving tests, 21st cards, graduation........anything that came really. There were even a few Valantine's cards that I found and I put those away too.

This has been for six DC ranging from 32 to 16. My advice would be to not let it get that far because when your DC grow up they will say 'What the hell have you kept that for'.....Well mine have!

I did intend to make scrapbooks but only managed for my first born from birth to 5. After that it all got carefully stored away in boxes.

I really couldn't just chuck it all but I have made a start on scanning it and then throwing some of it out. I am going to keep all all birth congratulations, baptism and maybe preschool birthday cards, 18th and 21st. The rest I'm scanning and keeping on CD. I'm doing all the family photos at the same time so the graduation cards will be stored with graduation photos. One day it will be all organised and stored on CDs.

I won't tell you about all the playschool and school stuff we have collected. Grown up DCs don't want to take that to their own homes either. I made a start on that this year. DH got the boxes marked 'Old Christmas decs ' down from the attic and I photographed/scanned what I wanted and DH had a bonfire. So that's all the paper plate angels and cardboard and cotton wool snowmen etc. gone for good. I have kept a collection of pottery snow men to which all DC contributed over the years and a pottery nativity which the eldest 3 all made bits of.

Have kept some other stuff too. My DDad's 21st, Christmas and Valantine cards from when they were first married were with the photographs from my parents when we cleared their house. Mum had also kept homemade cards from her grandchildren which were returned to the families. I kept the ones from my DC to their GP.