What "Correspondence" do you save?

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I have a couple drawers full of cards, pictures, Christmas greetings, newspaper cut outs about us/the farm etc.

It's my plan to sort through it all tomorrow.

I'm thinking about just saving stuff from grandparents, parents, aunts/uncles, any special accolades and pitching the rest. Stuff that isn't online, people who wrote something special or whose handwritng I'd want to remember.

I no longer care about photocards of long lost cousins, the wedding paraphenilia of my friends etc. Does this make me awful? I've been known to have very little sentimental attachment.

A good share of it has been scanned to my computer already anyways. There's just some stuff I want a physical copy of.

What is your cut off on save vs. toss?

[emoflamingo]

I usually save photo cards, but I don't have long lost cousins lol. I also have a lot of birthday cards from my parents, which is nice because I can see my mom's handwriting still. I keep birthday cards in general from special people, but I don't usually keep christmas cards otherwise.

I also have a lot more sentimental crap than I should.

[pinkeggs]

Letters from old friends, photos. I admit that I kept a small stack of letters from an ex in my teens, but that's more because I feel sentimental about that time in my life and the fun puppy love than the guy. (And DH knows about them lol)

[pitterwoo]

I have a box of letters and cards from family mostly and wedding cards, but now I don't save anything. I keep holiday photo cards for 1 year and then toss them. I don't keep birthday cards and there really isn't anything else that I get anymore.

[mrsemilys]

I have the cards from our wedding, cards from when DD was born and I keep grandparent cards for her. Other than the occasional sweet card from DH or my mom or IL I don't keep much. Simplify!

[roselis]

I save Christmas cards. Threw out all of my friends wedding invites (right after my divorce).

[ohjessica]

I recently lost my father, so I'd stress keeping the handwritten things from close family members and friends because having those random cards from my dad is so valuable to me now.

But yeah, I kind of just toss things from people that I'm not super close to!

[prazenjc]

i used to keep along the lines that you have to sort through. i always kept the old Christmas cards from previous years to cut up and use as gift tags in the next year (got that from my mother). but, dh is a major clutter cutter. we essentially only keep things from our immediate family that we've deemed special (every card from dh, our son, my parents and he has the same respectively). however, i do have a box of stuff in our basement that my mother saved from my growing up years. i haven't gotten rid of any of that. in part b/c it was special to her and otherwise b/c i haven't gone thru it enough to agree w/her or not.

[lemondrop]

I keep certain letters and Christmas letters, based on the content. For example, all of the letters my cousins wrote while serving in Iraq will always be kept.

So far, I've kept all photo cards, and standard cards that have a special message or meaning to me. I've kept the really pretty standard Christmas card with the intention of making new cards or using them as gift tags.

[lemondrop]

Oh, I've also kept some wedding invites and the program from funerals.

[katie4253]

We keep almost nothing. I keep notes from my mom, because I know I'll want them when she is gone (morbid, but true). We also keep photo cards of about 3-4 people and cut out the x-mas stuff and keep them on the fridge. Other than that, everything goes. I used to be a lot more sentimental about stuff like this and I have tons of old things (from high school - college) that I need go to though. We are slowly going through everything and getting rid of stuff.