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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Gerianne on December 22, 2013, 06:17:15 am
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I was going through my greeting cards I have been saving over the years.
They have a "momentary message".
You receive the message when you read each one.
Then, the moment is gone; the message stays in your mind,even if the card is thrown away
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Some people never save the cards they receive.
Some people, like me, save them for a few years, then through them away.
Some people, like my sister, keep them in their "sock drawer" or some place similar.
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I have years worth of birthday cards and Mother's Day and Father's Day cards that I have saved. I don't look through them often, but when I have it has been fun just to see how the style of greeting cards has changed over time.
My mom recently gave me a manilla envelope full of Get Well cards that I had received when I was FOUR years old and had been in the hospital. THOSE are very cool cards.
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I save cards that have a special meaning to me. I have books full of these types of cards and every once in awhile I look back at them to bring a smile to my heart.
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I save every single card! I know that I shouldn't and it sounds hoardish but sentimental memories mean the world to me. Then I can read every single card that a loved one has given to me when it's their time to go so i have a piece of them to remember them by. :angel11:
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I save some cards...no way to save them all.
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I do save cards for a couple of years. Most often the christmas cards. I do like going back and looking at them.
a few years a was given things that that I have given my parentswhen I was young. That was neat!
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I keep the ones I like the art work on and sometimes frame one or keep them and put them out during the season...but I have to really like them...think they are well-made or something clever :D
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I hardly save much as I don't have much room to say them. But I do have some that I still kept when I was eight. I do know some things are better kept as memories and will always passed down to my children and their children. But knowing these memories will never erased from my mind, I wanted to keep something as part of my own family history. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Priceless!
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I keep all the cards from my family, my two sons, my sisters, my mum. Everybody else's I keep for a little while and then I recycle them in various ways. I'm thrilled to get Christmas letters and photographs that people take the time to send me and I always read those word for word. It would be lovely to keep all of the cards but I just don't have the room, so I keep the ones that mean the most to me.
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I save cards from my wife and son and then also from my parents.
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I save all my physical cards and date them. Reflecting on them make me both happy and sad. I sometimes dwell more about the past when I see them. I also realized I actually got duplicates from people before too.
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I just started saving a lot of the cards I get. I don't know what happened last year but I started to really like sending and receiving cards. In this digital age it's still nice to get a card.
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I save the cards from the people that mean the most to me. The other day a coworker gave me an Xmas card. I read it and threw it away.
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I like your momentary message idea. I also save my cards and then at some point am forced to get rid of a bunch of them...too much paper in my house. I hate to toss them and always am glad if I have saved ones from people in my life who are no longer around.
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I keep my card if it is special and have a meaning to my life.
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I've been trying to clear out a lot of stuff for the past 9-12 months. I ran into a lot of cards from various holidays and occassions and threw a lot away. There were quite a few I just couldn't throw away though so I put them in one of my picture tubs under my bed. Birthday cards from my mom and dad (who are now deceased) and a few really special cards from my daughters for Mother's Day, etc. I'd like to keep all of those sort of things but at my age things have really piled up and I don't want my girls to have to go thru as much as I did when my parents passed away so I'm slowly trying to get rid of things.
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I have kept some cards. I did more but when we moved and downsized I had to let some of them go. I contributed them to children's organizations so they can use them in paper projects.