I only give, or send, less than twenty Christmas cards to family, friends and others. I bought them today in the local Cancer Research UK shop.
The back of the card packs inform me that All net profit from the sale of this pack is covenanted to Cancer Research UK, and that the cards are produced in the UK.
I shall dispose of the cards that I receive as I did last year by taking part in the excellent Christmas Card Recycling Scheme.
Flighty's plot 
I just read recently about a woman who saves the cards she gets, writes the name of the sender and date, and reuses them as recipe cards. So as she cooks, she can be reminded of the happy events of her past. And my mom used to collect Christmas cards (especially the sparkly ones) to send to someone she knows in Vietnam who makes them into ornaments or other craft and makes a living off them. For myself, I cut up parts of the pretty images on the cards and use them as Christmas gift tags. But for the ones filled to the brim with news, I save like other correspondence.
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Nikki it’s great when people do find a use for them such as you mention. The trouble is that the vast majority of them here just get thrown away as rubbish.
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Hi Flighty, good on you. I buy charity Christmas cards too. Always buy straight from the charity, I believe if bought from a department store less money goes to the cause? Thanks for supporting Cancer Research UK, my mum passed away with cancer, the charity needs all the support they can get, to hopefully eventually find a cure for this cruel disease. I recycle all paper either in our blue box scheme, or put through the shredder and composted, even my toilet roll tubes are re-used as plant pots for runner beans, sweet peas etc! x
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Mine are from the Woodland Trust (M&S).
Our neighbour in Houston used to collect the fronts of the cards from the neighbourhood and make laminated placemats with them! Also for charity…
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I’m not logged in sorry. I buy direct from the Cancer Research shop too. They have a brilliant selection.
You have also reminded me how I used to cut out pictures from the cards and make a collage. (or a mess as my mum used to call it!)
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Louise thanks! It seems that a lot of people buy such cards nowadays.
Sadly I think that there can be few families who have not lost a loved one to cancer.
Paper is one thing that we can completely recycle or use in some way, as indeed I do. xx
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Olivia good choice! It’s great to see just what people can do with them.
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Daffy that’s okay! Like you I think that their cards are brilliant. I can envisage you doing that. xx
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