December usually brings greeting cards to our homes with messages, pictures and newsletters from friends and family far and near. You can enjoy them for days or weeks by keeping them nearby during the holidays. Decorated open baskets, bins or boxes can hold them in convenient places. They can be opened and propped up on mantels, buffets or tables, or they can be strung across windows, walls or doorways much like clothing on a clothes line (for those of us old enough to know what a clothes line is).
After the holidays, resist trying to keep all of them as they will create a source of clutter in a few years. Save the photos only if you will honor them by displaying in an album, frame, scrapbook or photo box. If cards or letters contain messages you want to save, clip those and donate the fronts of cards to nursing homes, daycares, or other places that hold craft classes or create crafting projects. Keep a check list or data base for current addresses and other notes about the sender and update it each year.
Make decisions now so that when the holiday clean up begins, you will have a plan for those cards.
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