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Do you keep them all? Throw them all away? Keep some of them? I always have this dilemma and I never know what to do. If you keep them, they just build up as clutter. But some are quite nice, and then you have to decide where to draw the line. And where do you keep them? It's always a problem. What's the solution?

It's a two-step policy.

1) Put them up for a week in case anyone comes round, then recycle them.
2) Don't buy them or others. Except my grandmother.

You have to decide where to draw the line. It's part of being a grown up.

Xmas cards are like letters.
Totally unnecessary in the modern age, ditto physical media, however over 50s like myself still like to open a birthday or Xmas card of a handwritten letter.

Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:00 pm Do you keep them all? Throw them all away? Keep some of them? I always have this dilemma and I never know what to do. If you keep them, they just build up as clutter. But some are quite nice, and then you have to decide where to draw the line. And where do you keep them? It's always a problem. What's the solution?

I cut up Christmas cards to make labels for next year's presents. Then forget to use them and throw them away.

Stopped doing them all together and asked people to not send them me. I don't appreciate them! A text is much nicer and involves no fake smiling, no throwing needless things away and no social awkwardness.

Same for wrapping gifts now, no more wrapping, if you need the element of surprise just hold behind your back.

I'm a cheery soul

Yeah cards are useless. Someone once got me a really no nice one that was made of 'seed paper' though, you could plant it (or just let it biodegrade) afterwards and it would grow flowers. That was cool.

I avoid them where possible at all costs. The fact that they're usually covered in non-recyclable glitter just makes an already questionable idea even worse.

Bin.