GTKY: Birthday/Holiday cards

[SheilaTheTank]

What do you do with the holiday/birthday cards you receive in the mail? Do you open them right away or do you save them to open on your birthday or whatever holiday they are intended for?

My family always opened them right away and then displayed the cards as part of the holiday decorations. Birthday cards were also displayed. MH though, insists that they go on the tree unopened and does not open them until Christmas day. He does something similar with birthday cards and won't open them until his actual birthday. I always found this weird.

What does your family do?

[katespade]

Open as they come and display.

[katespade]

Also H does that with birthday cards and tries to make me wait. No sir. I end up waiting with any cards I get from the ILs but my family? Nope nope nope.

[megrae12]

Open immediately and display! I love getting cards!

[SheilaTheTank]

Dec 8, 2016 9:48:08 GMT -5 katespade said:

Also H does that with birthday cards and tries to make me wait. No sir. I end up waiting with any cards I get from the ILs but my family? Nope nope nope.

Maybe it's a guy thing? MH is the king of delayed gratification. Wants to be the last person to open presents, holds out for forever to get something, etc. I'm the total opposite and have no patience. Just let me open the damn thing now!

[jewel441]

Open immediately and then put in the trash. Lol. Maybe if it's got a kid I know like a cousin or something I save it bc aw, but saving means leaving it on the counter until I get annoyed at the papers and then shoving it in the drawer or the trash.

We are not sentimental folks over here, and growing up I don't remember people sending holiday cards

[Deleted]

Open right away and display them.

[rachelilly23]

We open up and display them. For holiday cards specifically, I tape them all up on the pantry door as a collage and leave them there all year long. I can't bear throwing away all the loved ones' photo cards! (At least, until the new one comes to replace the previous one...)

[sunshineshades]

Dec 8, 2016 10:06:14 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

Open immediately and then put in the trash. Lol. Maybe if it's got a kid I know like a cousin or something I save it bc aw, but saving means leaving it on the counter until I get annoyed at the papers and then shoving it in the drawer or the trash.

We are not sentimental folks over here, and growing up I don't remember people sending holiday cards

Lol I love this because this is us. Like exactly. My mum loves cards and takes forever picking them out for everyone for every occasion.... And then I barely read it (because she always picks small novels) and they get thrown out after a couple days. I suppose that isn't nice of me, but I have told her we are not card people.

[SheilaTheTank]

Dec 8, 2016 17:26:57 GMT -5 sunshineshades said:

Dec 8, 2016 10:06:14 GMT -5 jewel441 said:

Open immediately and then put in the trash. Lol. Maybe if it's got a kid I know like a cousin or something I save it bc aw, but saving means leaving it on the counter until I get annoyed at the papers and then shoving it in the drawer or the trash.

We are not sentimental folks over here, and growing up I don't remember people sending holiday cards

Lol I love this because this is us. Like exactly. My mum loves cards and takes forever picking them out for everyone for every occasion.... And then I barely read it (because she always picks small novels) and they get thrown out after a couple days. I suppose that isn't nice of me, but I have told her we are not card people.

I have an aunt who picks the sappiest, longest, most awkward cards ever. They never get read. 

[SheilaTheTank]

Dec 8, 2016 13:46:13 GMT -5 rachelilly23 said:

We open up and display them. For holiday cards specifically, I tape them all up on the pantry door as a collage and leave them there all year long. I can't bear throwing away all the loved ones' photo cards! (At least, until the new one comes to replace the previous one...)

I get the photo card ones, but do you do the collage things with just regular Christmas cards? 

[rachelilly23]

Dec 9, 2016 8:26:50 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

Dec 8, 2016 13:46:13 GMT -5 rachelilly23 said:

We open up and display them. For holiday cards specifically, I tape them all up on the pantry door as a collage and leave them there all year long. I can't bear throwing away all the loved ones' photo cards! (At least, until the new one comes to replace the previous one...)

I get the photo card ones, but do you do the collage things with just regular Christmas cards? 

Nope. Those I just leave on my dining room table until I'm ready to toss them.

[SheilaTheTank]

Dec 9, 2016 9:03:18 GMT -5 rachelilly23 said:

Dec 9, 2016 8:26:50 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

I get the photo card ones, but do you do the collage things with just regular Christmas cards? 

Nope. Those I just leave on my dining room table until I'm ready to toss them.

ok. That's more reasonable. I was getting twitchy thinking of the random Christmas cards stuck to the door all year long.