Christmas cards.What do you do with yours? I have heard of people sorting them into categories: religious theme cards on this shelf, plants and flowers on that shelf. Or cards-from-family here, cards-from-church there. I'm not that systematic but I confess this year I have a shelf with pretty blue ones together. The others get stuck onto a hanging thing like in this picture but you can get some very odd combinations of adjacent images. eg a jaunty Rudolph next to some very serious looking wisemen. Or a desert scene with camels next to a snowman! I suppose variety is the spice, and there's another Christmas theme. Does anyone use those strings with little plastic pegs still? Anyway, whatever you do with your cards, I hope you manage to leave them there longer than I do. Due to a family tradition stretching back decades, long before recycling was fashionable, I like to cut up my cards to make tags etc for next year. So by about boxing day I am eyeing them up and planning how I am going to hack them to pieces. It is not long before I have a great pile of chopped up cards to clear up. So tell me dear bloggers, what do you do with yours?
They are sorted, religiously, into "Christian nativity type stuff" and "secular stuff" Then I tuck them into the glass panels in the doors - one in the hall and two in the lounge. I admit that if you send me a card featuring Jesus, you'll get displayed prominently to greet visitors -snowmen etc are relegated to the back side of the doors and only seen when people are leaving!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes I recycle mine to make tags and cards for next year. You wait till Boxing Day??!! I have ALREADY planned which ones are going to what purpose. And all the snowmen/robins etc go into a box for school projects, and the plain backs are cut with a guillotine into 10cm squares for my 'notes' box - and pretty village scenes etc are trimmed to 15 x 10 cm to make postcards. NOTHING gets wasted round here!