Hi Maria,

Thanks for your views on greetings cards in your Dec 12th issue. Mine are slightly different. Given that, as you say it is nice to get a real card, even though it costs money and takes effort to send. My way is:

1. All cards are opened on day of receipt and displayed right away (even if this is slightly in advance of the occasion).

2. They are displayed for about a month (again in recognition that time and money has been involved in sending it to me).

3. Then they go into a box for a year. I have a box like you, and my rule is that I must not need more than that one box--no overflow.

4. The following year, I recycle either by cutting the card up for gift tags if suitable or in the paper recycling. But I keep a card from anyone who has died since sending it to me so I still have the last cards from elderly relatives and dear friends no longer with me. It's a kind of memento of them.

5. The cards I received for special occasions (eg. my 50th) were memorable, but I disposed of them after my 60th when I had a new set of 'special' cards.

6. I do still have all the 'thinking of you' cards sent to me when my parents died and am unsure when I will dispose of these.

7. Like you, I keep cards that include snippets of family information and the like.

8. Buying cards: I do this whenever visiting a special place, museum or library which often have interesting cards. Sometimes, the card picture is a drawing or painting by a local artist being sold to raise funds. I try to fit the card to the person. This also means I am not sending mass-produced birthday cards.

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