I have kept our engagement, wedding, DD's birth and christening cards. I will probably keep her first birthday cards too, but that's it! I don't keep general birthday or xmas cards. Like you, I am a bit of a sentimental hoarder, and it drives DH mad...hehe
my mum kept all my cards and i actually enjoyed looking back and reading over them!
So i have been keeping all ours and the girls cards also! and putting them in scrap books!
I keep our Christmas cards with the photo book for that year.
I have only kept a few special cards of my own which are in a box of keepsakes in my wardrobe.
I have kept all the baby shower, birth, birthday cards etc for DD & DS. They are stored in ziplock bags according to year & event in a box (1 box each) in their wardrobes along with other keepsakes
I have every card I have ever received! Even the cards my parents got when I was born. I sometimes look at them and I could never throw them out, I'm a sentimental fool
I think there is a place that will bind your cards for you into a book, I've seen it online.
I keep xmas cards for when Moo is older and we can do something crafty with them, I'm not attached to them for some reason.
I keep the previous year's xmas cards, all the cards we got when DD was born and first birthday. I don't like clutter. All of the cards are kept in the empty chocolate box DP got me for my first mother's day (I was in hospital and the food was gross!)
I kept a lot of my cards when I was younger. One day I went through them and it was nice to see. But then I thought - do I really need them? Will I look at them again? & Will I miss them if they're gone? The answer was no to all of them so out they went. & I haven't missed a single one lol!
I've only kept our wedding & engagement cards, DS birth & 1st birthday and a few special cards. They need sorting lol! I'm hoping to do that before my baby comes too. It won't happen though lol!
I keep christmas cards in my ribbon box until the following year for the sole purpose of reminding me who to send cards to (I'm too lazy to write a list). The list gets shorter each year because I only send cards to people who sent them to me the year before plus a few exceptions for special people like DH's pop. Most people seem to just send an SMS or FB msg nowadays.
I have kept the girls Congratuations on Birth cards and their first birthday cards, already organised in an albulm (along with their hospital cards and hospital bands :-) and their measurements from the M/W that she wrote on the ruler thingy)
Also kept engagement cards, 21st birthday cards...
Ive kept out wedding/engagement cards, all of the kids cards (birth, birthdays, naming days, Christmas etc). I dont bother keeping DH's and my birthday cards, unless they are to each other. We have a family chest that i keep all of our special things in, photos, birth certificates, marriage certificates, hospital bands etc etc, everything thats special.. and the cards are all in there.
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