Do you keep greeting cards?

[Here]

My husband throws them all away after the event. I feel like I should save them. I saved them when I was a kid too.

[Willis Jackson]

I put them in the recycling bin immediately after reading them. I am the least sentimental person on the planet.

[cricketwife]

Birthday and Christmas cards from others we display for a bit and then recycle. DH and I both keep cards to/from each other - partly because we have to prove that we're a real marriage to INS but he would definitely keep mine anyway and I would probably keep his to me as well.

[hippygirl]

I keep them. I enjoy rereading the ones from my grandma that passed yrs ago.

[kangaroo11]

A few years ago, I started keeping them. I'm glad to have them now from all the people who have passed away.

[Deleted]

I keep a few but mostly toss them after a week or two on the fridge or mantle.

[cjeanette]

Most of them. I really glad I saved all the ones from my grandma that she sent for every stinking hallmark holiday. Just the silly "love you honey" she wrote in everyone makes me smile now that she is gone.

[jinkies]

I kept our wedding cards. At Christmas, we hang a ribbon and put cards on it as we get them. They are thrown away after Christmas.

For birthdays, babies, all other occassions, I read it, kiss it, put it in the trash. I hate the clutter.

[monarch]

Only those with personal messages written in them.

[lys]

rarely do I save them, but there have been a few that I have saved -- usually when there was a special note of significance or meaning to me included

[IrishBelle]

I will sometimes save the odd card if it has special meaning to me. Otherwise they are recycled shortly after the event is over. I hate spending money on cards for this very reason.

[cgpm]

I save the ones from DH and anything from someone close who wrote a nice personal message. Otherwise, we might display for a bit and then recycle. I am also a clutter hater.

[af1212]

I also keep most "important" greeting cards, but feel totally overwhelmed by the collection that has built up over the years. Does anyone have a good suggestion for storing or organizing them? Where do you keep them?

[chessie]

No they get tossed. I dont have that kind of storage to keep everything.

[thoseareradishes]

I have almost every card ever given to me saved in a gift bag in the basement. I can't throw them out! I didn't take the Christmas cards down until June, and that was only so I could put up H's birthday cards (which are still hanging up).

[belovedbride07]

Sept 15, 2012 15:49:40 GMT -5 IrishBelle said:

I will sometimes save the odd card if it has special meaning to me. Otherwise they are recycled shortly after the event is over.

Me too. I hate all of the clutter. We have all of our wedding cards in a box, but we toss most of the rest. I'm going through boxes of cards, newspaper clippings, etc. from my childhood and it's just too much stuff for me.

[rex]

Sept 15, 2012 15:08:17 GMT -5 Willis Jackson said:

I put them in the recycling bin immediately after reading them. I am the least sentimental person on the planet.

Ditto. Material possessions hold no sentimental value to me. I don't keep anything I don't have a real reason to keep.

[blueballoon]

I kept our wedding ones, and all the one's I get from H. All others are tossed pretty quickly.

[315bride]

I almost always toss after they have been displayed for a while. Every once in a blue moon I tuck one away.