I can't throw away my birthday cards

thats why Im sad that my son seems to have my box of all the l o vley cards mo husband gvae to me, its spec ial now at Im widoweed.

For me, birthday cards go adios. But not old love letters. I'm old enough that I used to get actual letters...in the mail...

I keep my birthday, christmas and other cards like that for a few years then find I have no room for them anymore so will throw them away as I can't keep everything.

Uh oh, you must have known mom, I've been finding greeting cards from people who we lost touch with in the early 1960s, it's a real mess to go through and now I'm looking at the ones I've been keeping ..... I wonder if it's something most women do.

they are only paper . . . recycle them! Dont hoard

All my birthday cards are kept very safely beneath my clothes section ;)

Could you get a cork board or something and make a collage? Several boards and put them on the wall?

I put all of my sentimental cards and letters in a shoe box. I can't toss them out either.

All these are your good memories. How I handle it. For the past 10 years I have taken a lot of pictures at home, in the jungles, villages and life in Cambodia. Almost 2 shoes boxes and others gifts. I need to move often. So one day I get a scanner and scan and store in my hard disc. Every time I need to refer I just open. If it is making you a problem, that is one solution. Life is short, not too much detach on material things. (That is my thought only) May be you can find some good way. Good Luck.

I had trouble throwing mine away for a long time, too. I do have a small stack of them still that were given to me by special people, but not as many as I used to.

You could buy some of those plastic storage boxes.

I'm afraid I'm not sentimental like that. I've kept a few special cards from when my children were young, but otherwise they go in the bin.

i've purty much e'ery card i've e'er received, e'en letters. thankfully i aint ne'er been that popular, so storage's no trouble, lol. i keep 'em'n the drawer under my bed. sometimes when i can't sleep, i'll pull'em out 'n peruse through 'em. particularly those my dad sent me when i was a wee young'un. big hugs!!

I used to save all of those things, too, until I had to move into a smaller place and they all had to go. There's just no room anymore. I have them all in my heart now. :) I hope you won't have to get rid of yours, too!

Use them to decorate. Decoupage a table with them. Recycle them by sending the fronts to a charity. They make new cards for charitable resales out of them. Yes, they mean something to you, but they could help others.

I have a large moving box with b-day cards, mothers day and Christmas, I also have the children s, I tell myself that one day I'm going to organize them into albums and give them to the kids. Maybe I can make it a summer project and enlist my youngest daughters help while she is out of school. I too am sentimental and cards are expensive, for someone to take the time to pick the card out and spend that much money it seems awful to throw it away. We certainly wouldn't throw the gift away so why the card. My suggestion would be a photo album that you could put them in and then they would be handy and would take up a small space on the bookshelf. In my box I also have airline tickets, amusement park tickets and concert tickets. It's been 2 years since I was in the box I can't remember what all else is in there. Just little keepsakes that I thought would be something that each of the kids would enjoy to bring back childhood memories of fun times.

I used to keep all any cards that I got but it got a bit much so I had to go through them and only keep ones from important people. I keep lots of things as keepsakes and it drives my husband mad lol, I have boxes and boxes of keepsakes. I hope you sortthrough them xx

I used to keep all my cards, but I don't any longer. It's great you have so many you cherish and want to look at and not put them on a shelf somewhere out of sight and mind.

I used to do that but then I got so many of them that they started to haunt me! The cards that I keep are ones that don't say "Happy Birthday" on them, or at least are funny in their own special way. I assorted a few of them and put them into a glass picture frame. That way they all have a different meaning to anyone who views them.

if it has value to you, especially sentimental value, you should keep them at all cost.