What do you do with birthday cards you get?

Ironhide wrote:

Imrahil wrote:Stand them up on the mantelpiece for a week then they get recycled.

This.

I don't really see the point in greetings cards in general though, why not just send a text/email wishing someone happy birthday/merry christmas .etc instead.

If I read it right last time I was on there Moonpig try and charge about a quid for eCards, if you can use the Moonpig site you can send a strawberry floating email attachment by yourself, Jesus Christ

I'm not really arsed unless it's special (landmark occasion, hand made, photo card, particularly nice message etc). My wife really likes getting them though. On our first anniversary I only got her a present and flowers and she was a little bit sad I hadn't got her a card. The next year I made a point of getting her one but I ended up buying one that was "YOUR anniversary" and not "OUR anniversary". I just design my own now with pictures of our son on it, it's actually easier than navigating the Clintons Cards minefield...

I keep them all. I have a box full of Birthday/Xmas cards/Wedding Invites etc

I don't go back and read them all but I don't like to throw it away if someone has made the effort to write and post it.
Also, they are a nice memory to have. I have lots of cards from my grandparents who are no longer here. I have a postcard that my favourite school teacher sent me when I was 7. She died a few years later.

Doesn't take much effort to keep them.

Dowbocop wrote:...The next year I made a point of getting her one but I ended up buying one that was "YOUR anniversary" and not "OUR anniversary".

That reminds me, I had to buy a card for my elderly Uncle's Birthday, found a kind of suitable one with a garden on it. I got it home, and inside it had 'Congratulations on our 50th Wedding Anniversary'

The most useless card I could possibly buy, and I can't think of any single card that is less useful to me - there is no chance I'll live long enough to be married to someone for 50 years, let alone keep the card that long.

I often bin/recycle them. I do however keep some. Any I deem from an important person. As pathetic as it sounds it's normally from females I'm fond of who I keep or people who don't often give them.