S/O birthdays

[notreallyirish]

Throw them away. I'm not a saver. I might keep something homemade. The amount of thought my ILs put in DS2's first birthday card was obvious. It had a ladybug on it and said "To the birthday girl" on the front. That got tossed.

[quesyrah]

The cards from their first birthday I put in their keepsake boxes. All others I toss

[jnksmom]

I trash them. H saves all of his. We have a few special ones from the kids 1st birthdays but I trashed the rest.

[beantrees]

I save the special ones. They don't take up that much space and we have enough room.

[chatterbox]

I have pretty much every card anyone has given to me in a couple photo boxes. I don't know why I save them. It drives my husband crazy.

[mamaalysson]

I toss them. Cards that are particularly pretty I might throw in a frame. But a generic "happy birthday!" card I will recycle. My inlaws send cards for everything. It's very sweet and my kid's love getting the mail, and I might set the cards on the mantle until that particular celebration is over, but then I toss. I just realized that my MIL writes a little date in the corner of the cards, and now I'm a little worries she intends for me to save those...

[lala]

Mar 10, 2015 9:43:31 GMT -5 quesyrah said:

The cards from their first birthday I put in their keepsake boxes. All others I toss

This. We keep them in display as they come in and for a week or 2. Then toss. I've kept a few here & there with special messages.

[gennyu]

I display the cards for up to a month - or the next occasion, whichever comes first. Then they get tossed!

[jensriot]

I give them to the kids to color on, cut up, glue or whatever. The girls love them for arts and crafts.

ETA They do eventually get tossed along with used coloring books and the like.

[lala]

You know, we do that w/ Christmas cards but I don't think I've every done it w/ birthday ones! I'll start adding them to the craft cabinet.

[minismama]

First birthdays and Baptisms got saved from everyone. Other than that I save the special ones and they go in the kids memory boxes.

[Rainyday]

I keep the ones that actually have a signed, heartfelt message in them (especially from a grandparent). A card just signed "Love, Nana" toss.

[auroraloo]

toss

[nicolewi]

I struggle with this all the time. I have a pile of Valentines sitting on my desk right now. We did a bunch of homemade ones this year.
I have tended to keep the cards from grandparents and great-grandparents for birthdays, and any other "special" cards, like ones with a really nice note. Sometimes I wonder if I should even be keeping as many as I keep! Then, I think about saving them for art projects as PP suggested b/c it seems like such a waste just to toss them, but I'm afraid that it would turn into a huge mess. Maybe I'll start throwing some old ones in a box for art projects and take a chance.

i think I need to get organized and get a box for each person!

[serendipity]

I toss them. I am really trying to keep the house decluttered.

[cabbagecabbage]

I toss 95%. I have a special box and a big scrapbook where I keep some special cards and other things.

[Deleted]

Toss.

[iheartthe80s]

Toss.