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Hold on, ‘cuz I’ve got a lot to say! Anyone who knows me knows I like to talk and what do I like to discuss more than anything? Organizing, of course!
Don’t leave because you think this is just going to be another one of those discussions about bins, file folders, label makers, and throwing out your stuff. I like to be a little more edgy than that, controversial to some perhaps. Let’s talk about the real things that happen, the real junk we have and the way we really live....making method from your madness!

I’ll start small. By now, most everyone has probably put away their holiday decorations and used your new gifts, unless you live where I grew up and you just kinda leave the outside lights up year-round (little known time-saving tip for you).
Well, I had whittled everything down to just checking the Christmas cards to make sure everyone was on the list for next year. I gave all the cards that my Christmas-baby boyfriend received to him for review. He asked if he had to save the cards, as he looked at the one from me. I said, “mine, of course you do”, jokingly. He truly wanted to know what to do with them.

Everyone is different; some will read them, cash Grandma’s $5.00 check and toss the card in the trash. Others have beautiful ribbons tying up the cards from each birthday, every Christmas, and even Arbor Day. And some have overflowing drawers of them mixed in with everything else. What to do?

First, I cannot help myself; I have to save every card, letter, sticky note that has come from my lover. I don’t save our movie tickets or other crap, but his written communications chronicle the growth of our relationship for me. Ugh! Did I just type that? Well, it’s true!

Anyway, a simple solution could be: 1) keep the cards from the occasion until the occasion comes up the next year; 2) review them and replace them with the new; 3) if there are one or two that are particularly memorable, date them and scrapbook or memorabilia box them (I have one steadfast rule, if I fear that the person I receive any card or letter from may not be around for the next occasion, it gets saved without waver); 4) if you find yourself “loving them all” then you must make a home for them and decide truly that they deserve to stay more than what you may have to get rid of to house them; 5) recycle the cards as best you are able or see #6; 6) trying to purge the billions that you have already collected? Use the fronts of the cards to create package tags or decorate some handmade cards of your own, give them to your kids for crafts, take them to a daycare or school that can use them for crafts, if there is no place in your area you can send holiday cards to St. Jude's Ranch, a nonprofit home for youths that collects old holiday cards for reuse. Either cut off the backs of the cards or leave them intact. Children at St. Jude's earn money by creating new holiday cards from the old. Mail the cards UPS "ground" or "bound printed matter" to St. Jude's Card Recycling, 100 St. Jude Street, P.O. Box 60100, Boulder City, NV 89006.

Alright, that’s enough for now, I’m exhausted!