greeting cards

[Gerianne]

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
.
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.

[jkhanson]

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.
!

[heypeg]

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.

[kimber62372]

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. 

[akee318]

I save some cards...no way to save them all.

[pkrahmer]

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!

[Forp]

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

[pmagalei]

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!

[Penwoir]

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.

[ricdsm]

I save cards from my wife and son and then also from my parents.

[davidh121]

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.

[luvh8tragedy87]

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.

[dreamyxo]

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.

[lbeery]

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.

[lhz123]

I keep my card if it is special and have a meaning to my life.