You know those Holiday cards you get, and they always include a picture, 99.9% of the time from a studio, of them, or more often, just of the kids. What do you do with them.
My aunt and uncle, whom I love very much, live in Oregon. They always send the wallet sized photo of the kids. I don’t know the kids that well, and the pictures are odd-sized and take up room…well…I throw them away. It took me a few seasons to not feel bad about it, but by now I toss them as soon as I open the envelope. I look at them, and then they’re trash.
How about you?
I’ve been sticking them to my fridge for the past while. Once it gets filled, I’ll probably chuck some of the older ones.
To be honest, I don’t really even open Christmas cards. I might open the envelope once and peek inside, but I’m just not a greeting card person. I suspect there are others like me out there.
I used to throw them in my photos box but I got a box for cards for like $1 on sale. I can store blank cards in there (for example the cards I get from the HSUS or the VFW or whatever) and there’s a lot of room left over, so I put the Christmas card photos in there.
This year we seemed to get quite a few of the picture card type, like this, instead of regular cards with pictures included. Most we put up on the wall with the other greeting cards and toss after the holiday. One of them was so unintentionally awesome we cut out the photo and framed it. Family of four, nice snapshot of them outside on a winter day all bundled up, picture artfully rendered in a sepia tone. Dad’s greying beard perfectly melds with son’s furry winter hat in such a way that it appears son is decapitated and his father is carrying the head around knitted into his beard as a memorial. I’m sure the beard and hat were completely different colors and textures in real life, but the picture was too fabulous not to keep.
They stay stuck to the fridge until people get tired of knocking them down and picking them up. Then they go into a photo box to (some day) be put in an album