getting rid of clutter - cards

chuck all of them? ?

i'm so unsentimental. admittedly i do have our wedding cards, but they're in a bag in the attic. don't think i've looked at them in three years...

I'm quite a ruthless de-clutterer these days (reformed hoarder) but I would keep these. Do you have a loft you could put them in?

but if you're going to put them in the attic, you may as well put them in the bin...

If you're really set on keeping them, could you cut the fronts off and stick them in a scrap book?

Recycle them all. What's the point of them - you know who cares.

I only keep cards from MrF, and more recently from cub. everything else goes in the recycling.

Nooo! You can get them out again!

I've got a few boxes for sentimental things. So anything I don't want to throw but don't want on display all goes in there. I found a few things I'd saved from about 20 years ago when I was little and it brought so many good memories back ?

I had a massive cull last year. I kept about a dozen cards total, everything else (old letters, diaries etc etc) got recycled. I have never kept birthday cards, mind you, and still don't.

I got rid of anything I wouldn't have wanted MrRache or the boys to read if I died. Morbid, eh?

We don't have a loft as we live in a loft converted cottage and what was the loft is our bedroom. We've got quite a few cupboards and drawers but everything is full to overflowing. I'm terrible for keeping things. I did have loads of magazines but I've cut out the pages I want and I've filled scrapbooks full of them - mostly interiors ideas.

I think part of it is knowing who they're from though so that in many years time you remember. I'm good at getting rid of christmas cards or recycling them by making gift tags from them. I suppose seeing as these are 'one off' occasions then they won't take up too much room.

Get rid. I'm pretty ruthless with things like that. If you haven't looked at them in the last 6 months you aren't going to look at them.

I tend to have a halfway house in my decluttering. I sort through stuff and things I'm not sure whether to keep or not I box up and put in the garage. If I haven't been in the box in 6 months then it goes straight out - don't even look through it again.

Only cards I have kept are my wedding cards, all the rest go in the bin. Then again I am pretty ruthless and our house is only small so we havent had much choice whilst living here.

I've been much better since we moved from big rented house to buying our little place. It's a cliche but I feel much better for chucking stuff out. I still have a few boxes to go through but I'm much better than I used to be.

I would probably keep them but I am a terrible hoarder. We're trying to do a major declutter at the minute but I wouldn't get rid of my wedding or baby cards.

I would say keep. I keep all cards from close friends & family and then sort through them once a year and bin duplicates e.g. Christmas cards from the same person unless they're especially nice cards or words.

It's meant a lot to me to still be able to read cards from my now deceased grandparents and re-reading the sympathy cards from when my dad died makes me realise how fab my friends are.

I have one A4 sized box with them all in which hardly takes up any room under the spare bed.