I’m over at Green Your Way today with “5 New Purposes for Old Christmas Cards.”
What do you do with all those beautiful Christmas cards when the season is over? How much waste are we generating in our attempts to keep in touch?
Our family has reduced our Christmas card waste by sending photo postcards and an online update, thus doing away with the envelope, paper newsletter, and card. Most people still send a card, and our family certainly enjoys hanging them up as decorations, but when Christmas is over, the stack always intimidates me. It’s like junk mail in its depth, but with so much more significance. I feel guilty just recycling them.
Here are five ways for you to deal with your pile without so much remorse:
1. Remember the Givers
After taking the decorations down, I collect all the Christmas cards and photos sent our way in a basket on our kitchen table. Much as we use our Advent wreath and reflections to bring some routine and focus to the dinner hour during December, we pick two cards and pray for the families along with our meal blessing each night in January. It helps our kids get to “know” the people important to us. If you aren’t a praying family, it would still be nice to simply “remember” each giver as a family and talk about how you know each other at mealtime.
Read the other 4 HERE…
Have you seen the Green Christmas Wish List? I finally made my MadeOn order this week – 20 lip balms plus some lotion! My Au Chocolat is living by my bed and is my favorite part of my bedtime routine to be sure. Mmmmmm…. These dry hands are thankful!
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Hi Katie!
Thanks for the great ideas for Christmas cards. I read a post of yours recently about the cd your son has with lots of relatives reading him books. I LOVE THAT GIFT IDEA! So much, in fact, that I just made a cd with Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Kathy reading books to my nephew who lives thousands of miles away in California. Thanks so much for the idea. I think he’ll enjoy the books and it is a great way to stay “close” to him even when we’re so far away.
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