A tip --what i do with our Christmas Cards.

[lissie]

Every year (at least 10) i put all this years cards in a large envelope and put them away with the decorations.
Next Christmas (as i have done every year) i know who to send cards to then i bin the year befores.
It saves me having to think and works well

[saundra]

Good idea lissie I put a tic against there address in my book but I only send a very few now

[TheOstrich]

We tend to send quite early, first week in December. We have a computer list of names (it's around 35 this year) which we print out each year and tick when we've received a card back. We keep the spreadsheet in the Christmas Card box so next year, we'll know who we've received from this year and can amend the list accordingly. Mrs O also records the Christmas presents we've given to nephews and nieces, so on, so we don't duplicate the following year (although they're all reaching the age now where it's going to be easier to send them cash!)

There are a couple of folk we sent to this year but we did not receive from; they were elderly and unfortunately we've no other way of checking what's happened to them, so regrettably we'll knock them off the list next year.

What we have done this year is keep any cards we've received where they contained messages saying that the sender has been poorly or perhaps there's been a family crisis in 2017. There were a number like that this Christmas - none of us is getting any younger . Mrs O has written back to a few of them already; the others, we'll be able to send more personal messages next Christmas rather than the ubiquitous "Hope you're all keeping fit and well ....." It's so easy to forget over the course of the year ......

[meriad]

I do make a list and keep it on my phone every year; but I generally don't post christmas cards - I send an e-card to everyone and make a donation to charity instead. I do feel bad though for those that have sent lovely cards and not received one from me in return but hopefully they understand why I don't.

[JoM]

I have a list on on my iPad.

I'm hoping that there's somewhere nearby where I can recycle cards this year. We used to be able to put them in the recycling bin but that's now not allowed. I know that WH Smiths and the Post Office always had collection boxes but they've merged into one and the shop is so badly cluttered now that they've had to fit the Post Office in that I'm not sure they'd have any free floor space to put one! I certainly don't remember seeing one last year.

[meriad]

http://www.animalscharities.co.uk/recyc ... cards.html
I just shared this with Shell on FB... Sainsburys apparently have collection points through to 8th January in aid of FSC in support of forests

[JoM]

I did read that Sainsburys are collecting them but we don't have one nearby that's accessible without a car

[lissie]

M&S have collection boxes for the woodland trust i think.
Tesco super stores also collect them.

[JoM]

M&S have stopped collecting now Lissie (not that we have one of those either )

Our nearest Tesco Extra is about 10 miles away too, it's flippin' useless around here!

[Kaz]

I mentioned that to Shell too Ria, great minds think alike I take mine to Sainsbury's every year. I work on memory for my cards, but make a list as I write them out.