Day 88 Greeting Card Stockpile

As I have mentioned before I do a bit of paper-craft.  For one reason or another over time I have accumulated a stockpile of handmade and shop bought greeting cards which take up valuable space in my craft area, an area that I really do need to downsize in.

With fear of continuing my scrooge reputation that I established in my Day 86 blog I am now going to tell you how I intend to minimise this greeting cards situation.

  1. First of all I am not going to buy any new cards no matter what.
  2. If I don’t have an appropriate card for the situation I will adapt a card I already have.
  3. I will try to remember to send everyone on my birthday calendar a card this year (Quite often I forget).
  4. I have a card organizer that I will set the cards up in  so I am less likely to forget.

I am quite confident in the fact that the people I care about will be happy just to get a card and that I don’t need to go out looking for “just the perfect” card  in order for them to be pleased to hear from me.

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March 29, 2010 · Filed under 365 Less Things

3 Comments

  1. deanna w. Said,

    June 17, 2015 @ 1:13 am

    Just curious…how did you adapt the cards you already had? Or were they all unused cards?

    I used to take a few minutes after Christmas, go quickly through cards received, cut out any picture I liked, punch a hole in it and use them for to/from labels the next year. I loved doing that.

  2. deanna w. Said,

    June 17, 2015 @ 1:15 am

    One time I used the same b’day card to hubby 3 years in a row. He never noticed. I think I’ll retire it this year though.

  3. Colleen Madsen Said,

    June 17, 2015 @ 7:35 am

    Good question Deanna, that was a long time ago so I don’t really remember. I guess I probably covered wording up on the outside to change wedding to anniversary, thank you to birthday etc and removed the original and put a new sentiment inside to match the front.

    I once put a new insert into the Christmas card my mother-in-law sent one year and gave it back to her the following year. It was a joke that we both enjoyed because she had handmade the card so knew perfectly well it was a regifted card.