Gretchen Rubin wrote a post a few months ago about Christmas cards. She mentioned that as they receive cards, they leave it in a common space for about a week for everyone in the family to see, and then they toss the cards.
This is quite the novel idea to me.
I don’t know of anyone who tosses cards even before Christmas is over 🙂 Then again, since I’ve been blogging, I’ve also heard (previously unknown to me) that people take their Christmas trees down on Christmas night.
But that’s a discussion for another day 🙂
Back to the cards.
The comments on that blog post are all over the spectrum and very interesting.
So I took out my stash of cards. People in South Africa don’t really exchange cards much these days so we never have many. We mostly give and get to overseas friends.
I was a bit sidetracked for a while, reading the cards and then I put them back for a few weeks.
Yesterday I took them out again and I decluttered ONE card. Just one.
I then decided I’ll put them out in a bowl at Christmas time and see if they no longer spark joy then.
For now, I have the space and they don’t NOT spark joy.
Nope. I am a words person. The cards will NEVER go. I punch holes in them and put them together in binder rings like you’ve done.
What if it’s just Dear Julia From Marcia with a bog-standard Merry Christmas in the card? 😉