How do you dsiplay your Christmas cards?

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Not that I have that many at the moment (4 ) but how do you display yours? I used to put all our cards (dh's, mine and the children's 100,000 cards from school) on the doors downstairs, but now that we have mved, the children have theirs in their rooms upstairs. our mantlepiece won't be big enough (she says with grim determination!) and we have no window sills wide enough. My parents hang theirs from plastic grippy things that they hang from the picture rail. Anyone know where I could buy those? Or any other ideas?

on ribbon stretched across shelves - like bunting

Hmmm good idea. Ribbon from where please?

I blu tac mine to the wall - but my walls are already desperately in need of decoration so I don't mind the bits of paint being pulled off when I take them down.

We use little gold pegs (from Woollies) and attach them to string which we pin to the walls (yes - like bunting!). Last year I also pegged them to some thick gold ribbon which we hung downwards on the wall and from the picture rail in the hall.

The ribbon I used last year came from the Pound Shop.

I don't, I keep them in a pile on top of the microwave adn then when I feel they've been there long enough I put them in the bin

I always seem to save the cards and promise I will buy something on which to display them. I never seem to get round to it though and they end up still in the pile I started when New Year comes round. Then I chuck them in the recycling.

Oh and I'm not sticking anything on my walls as I have only recently decrorated. Bah humbug!

DH sellotapes them together in vertical columes so you can read the insides

top to bottom iyswim

Aha! Glad you asked so I can show off my ingenuity. I saw these in the Lakeland catalogue last year and thought "bah humbug, I'm not paying a fiver each for those!" So I bought some rolls of the punched out foil stuff (Partners and ELC sell it), some little pegs (I think mine were from Hobbycraft or The Works - snazzy paperclips would do at a pinch), and some ribbon bows for the top and I hang them from my picture rails. I get a lovely warm, fuzzy feeling when I look at them and think of all those people paying a fiver a strip at Lakeland when mine were so cheap to make.

WE blutack them to the walls (in the Hall) as well. I put up any christmas pictures they do with them. I tried the string and peg thing before but they didn't hang straight enough I get a bit anal about it ( a small bit of control in the chaos that is my home!) and you can move them about when they are only blutacked up. I haven't lost any paint yet btw.

Clever you Moo. Best I have ever managed to rig up was some string hung from the picture rails!

I have put some string on the handrail going up the stairs so I dont have them waffling about in the living room. They are cluttering the stairs instead

we display them all over the floor - great for keepign babies entertained.

I didn't want to stick them on the book shelves as I was hoping to use the cards in place of some decorations IYSWIM (I am so cheap!) and I feel in front of books they will just get lost and not add to the festiveness of the room. Even though we have to decoarte the whole house, I am not keen on blutak as I know it will ruin the wallpaper and we won't get round to decorating for years.

Bought these things from Woolies last year -they are like a decorative cardboard long strip that you hang up and slot the cards in. You only need 1 drawing pin in the top so minimum damage to walls