I am celebrating my 85th birthday over two Saturdays - a fortnight apart. My actual birthday fell on a Saturday, but with three of my younger g.children being involved with GCSE's, could not arrange the family celebration until two week later. Had a lovely afternoon tea with a couple of dozen local friends
Anyway, this means that I have lots of birthday cards, which i have put up on all available spaces in my Living Room. Many have been hand-made and I will keep these until the Saturday of my family party.
Just wondering how long after that I should still keep them up? So was wondering how long other G.N's display birthday cards.
I only put the 2 from girls on the window sill in my living room for a few days, if there any others I don’t bother they go in the recycling after a few days but I keep the other 2 in a box.Most birthday greetings are Watsapp messages from from GC and there family’s.
Happy Birthday, it sounds like you're having a great time.
I keep birthday cards up until I think it's time to remove them, which varies greatly. It's not something I actively think about, so they come down whenever I happen to remove them. It's usually a couple of weeks but this year they were up for about 11 weeks. My wife is the same. They look nice up, there's only us and the cats here, so no big deal for us.
1 week in this household. My Late MiL, binned them after 24 hrs. When I asked her why after so many folk bothered to select and send them? she just replied, it's not my Birthday now.
2.5 weeks. I love to see my beautiful cards. I was annoyed to pay a fiver each, years ago for cards for a friend & Sil, when I called day after with a gift, no sign of birthday cards. So I asked why to both, up for one day & then straight in the bin. So now I don’t bother with cards for them as they both said they don’t do cards.
I put mine in the recycling bin today, after a week. We had a family meal out yesterday, otherwise they might have been gone before. I had to smile when the postman brought some of them accompanied by a brochure for mobility scooters!
As long as I fancy. Up to 3 or maybe on rare occasions, 4 weeks!
We always seem to have hand made ones. I like to give the time and effort due respect!
And it's especially nice in the couple of weeks afterwards to say to my adult children or grandchildren when they visit how much I've enjoyed looking at them.
My birthday is near Christmas, so I tend to leave birthday cards up for a few days after the decorations come down. This is what my mum used to do, as she said I should have a 'proper' birthday like everyone else, but it was always subsumed into Christmas.