Greetings Cards

About a week, my mother throws cards away late afternoon on the day she receives them. I was at her house on her last birthday, she received a card at 4 pm it was in the bin by 6 pm.

I did not know until I was an adult that other people kept cards for longer than a day.

Our cards always stay up a full week, so the MD ones will come down tonight. I keep all cards from the immediate family, in a box under the spare bed. I thought about recycling them during lockdown, but put them all back after a good nostalgic wallow - some of them are very touching, others so funny.

As for the flowers, the tulips are still looking good, the stocks are fading now but still smell wonderful.

I will take my MD cards down this week. I used to save cards but no longer do so and have thrown all old ones away because otherwise it would fall to my husband or son to throw them out when I’m gone and I know from experience how difficult that is.

I keep them up a couple of weeks but family ones are in a big box and kept for ever someone else will throw them away after I ve gone

I took mine down in the middle of the week and put them in my card drawer. When the drawer is full, I have a clear out.

Any made by grandchildren, or with their wobbly writing inside, will stay up and will probably never be thrown away - not by me anyway.

Others stay up for maybe 10 days and are then stuffed into a drawer which is ‘weeded’ occasionally - when the drawer is getting too full. /

I’ve had my birthday cards up on my hall table for 10 days or so and my MD cards are on my desk. I’ll take them all down today. I hate getting rid of them though. My birthday flowers, other than some pink lilies are dead, but the MD are still going strong.
My neighbour seems to keep cards up in her windowsill for 4 weeks, a bit too long for me.

I'm the same for about a week and then keep for a while and then bin.
I must admit I am having trouble keeping the flowers alive this year. Just one week and the roses and freesia are wilting. I've cut the stems, given them new water, and put them somewhere cool and they are still going.
Were flowers not as good this year? Or is it just me I know they were very expensive.

Grannybags

I usually leave them up for a week but I have a box full of cards that I can't bring myself to get rid of!

I have a huge box of cards from my family saved over the years, actually it’s about time I got them out and looked at them again!..🤗

My MD cards went in recycling yesterday, no foil or glittery bits, so about a week.

I leave them up one week mine go down tonight if they have personal pictures on I keep them.

I usually leave them up for a week but I have a box full of cards that I can't bring myself to get rid of!