The Christmas Card Fire

What do you do with the Christmas cards you receive once Christmas is over?

Do you keep them for a few months in a stack on the counter, where they get hidden under magazines you keep because you just swear you'll read them when you have a minute. Do they get stacked under the instructions for how to work the iPad you got for Christmas that your two year old is already surfing YouTube, purchasing Elmo videos from iTunes, and Skyping, but you haven't used it once....?

Are you one of those that puts them with the boxed up Christmas decorations where they are unpacked next year and you're like, What the *bleep* did I keep these for? And who are these people? Why did they send me a card? This one's not even signed...,or, HAHA!That one is a good one! I wonder if they will notice if I copy it for this year...

Are you the infamous, I love to hate you, SCRAPBOOKER? Who tediously cuts out all the little sections of each card, including quotes, to keep them perfectly filed away in your collection of perfectly fabulous photo embellishments? Yeah? well....

Or, are you the obsessive compulsive dissociative disorder person, that in a moment of "clarity, zen, and organization", you burn them to the ground with gasoline??!! All while deep breathing to center your Chakra, which is no ONE I KNOW!

Do you keep them forever because you think the persons who sent them might be hurt if you trashed them? Do you keep some and trash the rest? And then what do you do with them if you do keep them?

Well if you're a creative genius with lots of time on your hands, you'll come up with something. Or, if you're a Hoarder, which seems to be a growing trend these days according to television, then you will keep them with the righteous intent of doing something with them SOME day. But instead, eventually be evicted by the Fire Marshall because, you have so many boxes of crappy Christmas cards, you can't use your toilet because you can't FIND the bathroom! Then in order to try to throw some cards away so you can get a general idea of which direction the bathroom is even in, you need to loose weight so you can fit through the 4 inch opening that only the front door will allow you to squeeze out of!  Okay, that was extreme and slightly off topic, and made little sense, but it could happen to some people I know....

It would be kinda nice to have a non-time consuming way to recycle Christmas cards since I'm totally into the green thing. And I'm sure I could find one, if I wasn't writing this, but instead scouring the Internet for some Crafty Cathy's idea about how great old Christmas cards look when you make an origami city out them....

So! If you have a good and useful idea for Christmas cards, let's hear it! Because, mine? Well, mine are in a stack on the counter, and I keep looking at them, thinking, if I leave them out to be in the way, I will eventually remember to think of something awesome to do with them.

As much as I love opening cards when they come, and seeing every ones face once a year, and showing them to everyone on the mantle, the longer they sit there in that glittery little pile on the counter, the more I think of what a pretty, glittery, post Christmas, toasty, warm fire they would make!