What do you do with your Christmas cards?

[Daisy]

I never know what to do with mine. I hate the thought of just throwing them away or even recycling them.

I think it was Nanto who said she made gift tags out of them, but I can’t think of anything much more exciting then using pinking shears to cut round robins or snowmen!

[Nanto2girls]

I make a few into gift cards, but not all of them.
What is left goes in the bin. The cards from Christmas just gone are still in a box in a cupboard.

[Oma]

Last year a special school near us collected them for a project we just left them at the local store ,
This year for obvious reasons they couldn't do that so they went in the bin

[Lizzie48]

For years we could hand them in for a hobby club but they don't need them now, so, I save the special ones!!!!!! In fact yesterday I throw the others in the paper container, a shame really but have to.

[Plantaholic]

I keep mine until next year, the home=made ones from friends I have framed and put it on the wall every year, also I have put some on ribbons which I hang from the door. I can't bear to throw home-made cards away.

[Gemini]

I keep all the cards from grandchildren. Like Plant I wouldn't throw a hand made card away either.

I sometimes cut up cards which I think the children may use for Christmas crafting the following year but they are getting older now so I haven't this year.
The majority get thrown away.

[aggie]

I put mine in the recycling this year , wish I had kept some , but we can’t hoard everything 😒

[Gemini]

My instinct is to keep everything Aggie, but you are right we can't!

[Daisy]

Aggie - this is why I started this thread. I hate throwing them away, and wondered if anyone else had solved the problem of what to do with them to give them a second life. Even if I keep them, I would probably just put them in a box and put it in our already overcrowded loft. I keep letters people send with cards, but not in any orderly sort of way. Perhaps that's some more sorting out I need to do!

Slightly off topic, but I was talking to a friend yesterday who said that her OH was sorting out and shredding Tax Returns from 1983!!