What do do with photo gretting cards?

[Franni]

Since my friends and I have experienced a baby boom in recent years, I have been getting more and more photo greeting cards.

I am not sure what to do with them. It seems weird to display photos of other people's kids or to frame them. I don't want to start an album for all these cards since I have been trying to minimize the "stuff" and clutter that I have in my home. I don't even print many pictures of my own kids (though I have literally tens of thousands of pictures of them saved online or on my computer).

It seems equally "weird" to just discard them because I know I would feel bad if someone threw out a photo of my kids.

Don't get me wrong. I love all of these kids and probably have hundreds of photos of them on my computer already from playdates, parties, gatherings, trips, etc. (I am never without a camera at these gatherings)

So what would you do?

[Bloomwood]

Are you talking about holiday cards? I feel the same way about those. I actually held on to them for 3 years and tossed them this year. For the ones we received this year, I gave each of them a good look after the holidays, appreciated each face and tossed them.

[karlatta]

I do the same thing as with any other greeting card. Keep it if it's someone really important to me, throw it away otherwise.

I would have absolutely no problem with someone throwing out a photo greeting card picture of my kids.

[hub1176]

For holiday photo cards, I display them for the season, then they go in the trash with the rest of the cards. I think most people understand this is what happens.
I do get holiday pics of my day care kids, and those I do keep in kid friendly albums and let the kids look at them.

[PinkMartini]

We don't get many photo cards (I think we only got 2 this xmas) but I display them through the holidays & then throw them out.

I'm sure I'd do the same thing if we received random ones throughout the year (display them for a little while & toss).

[cynder]

I usually stash them in a shoe box along with the rest of the cards and invites we get throughout the year. They don't take up that much room but I fully realize that most people trash them and have no problem with it.

This yr, I was at my SIL's and saw that she saves them in albums as soon as she gets them. They get average about 15-20 photo cards of family friends' kids a year and when i was browsing them it was cool to see how the kids all change over the years. My mom has done it for years too so I think I might try it too.

[shaqangel]

I save the photo cards - i have a little storage box that i put the cards in. but if someone throws out a card i sent them, it doesnt bother me. i'm a pretty sentimental person though so i like to keep things like photos.

[cynder]

Ok, so it looks like I can't edit in this thread but just wanted to add that I only save the photo cards not card cards.

[mamax2]

It seems equally "weird" to just discard them because I know I would feel bad if someone threw out a photo of my kids.

I don't feel badly that people throw out pictures of my kids. This is the reason I order the absolute cheapest photo cards I can find.

However, my DDs are really into looking at photo albums these days, so I think I might get a couple of small, cheap albums ($1 store) and cut out the pictures of their close friends and family members and put them in an album for them to play with. If at any point they stop being interested in the albums, I'll throw those away too :D

[LDS Angel 19]

I have this years cards in a stack right here on my desk waiting for me to decide what to do... I'll probably let them sit there a few more weeks and then toss them.

[Marisa]

A few years ago we had so many cards with pictures of kids! I got a cheap sketch pad style photo album, cut out the photos of the kids, glued one on each page, and wrote the kids' names in block letters underneath the photo.

Joey (probably just under age 2 at the time) loved looking at all the pictures of his "friends" and even learning some of their names.

[catmom]

I put them on the fridge for a while and then toss them (unless it;s someone I really don't know well, in which case I probably toss it without displaying it first).

I already have boxes and boxes of photos of my own kid that I don't know what to do with!