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mousme

Lookit me, being all posty ;)

Aug 03, 2011 20:02

Three days in a row, holy cow ( Read more... )

migraine fairy, migraine, nesting, household woes, domestic stuff, decluttering, house

Comments 11

airea_dawn August 4 2011, 00:38:47 UTC

Donate the picture of the cards to a daycare, the kids love them for art! BTW good luck house hunting! Love hearing about it! And i have to agree with you about the CN train!

mousme August 4 2011, 02:18:24 UTC

Good idea! I will have to find a daycare nearby that wants them. Or, barring that, poll my friends who still have daycare-aged kids. Fewer now than there were. Good idea, thanks!

urban_homestead August 4 2011, 22:12:08 UTC

"Give them to friends with small kids" was going to be my suggestion. If you weren't so darn far away, I'd get on the bus and come take them off your hands! My daughter can cut out pictures and glue them in her scrapbook all. Day. Long.

primrose_1 August 4 2011, 03:41:53 UTC

Get a tag punch, and turn the cards into gift tags! I did it one year, and they looked really good! Mostly I keep them for awhile, then throw them away- which is sad because I make my own cards and I really don't want the people who get them to throw them out.

mousme August 4 2011, 03:45:40 UTC

Gift tag? I don't know what that is.

primrose_1 August 4 2011, 18:17:35 UTC

The tag you put on gifts to say who it's for and from. You can get tag punches at any craft store, and simply punch out the tags from your Christmas cards, attach it to your Christmas packages, and voila!

http://www.amazon.com/Mc-Gill-Tag-Punch-Scalloped/dp/B00161N2AC

This punch has tags of two sizes, so you can layer them, one with the Christmas card pattern, one with a coordinating paper color. Glue them together or, attach them by a punched hole at the end of the tag and tie with ribbon.

Sorry, kind of crafty girl here. :)

mousme August 4 2011, 19:13:07 UTC

Ooh, shiny! No need to apologize. That's a really good idea too. I love my flist. :)

kiwano August 4 2011, 14:14:22 UTC

Hey, what do you guys do with old Christmas and birthday cards? I seem to hang onto mine forever, because people have said nice things to me in them. Except that over the years I've accumulated a LOT of them, and I should probably find another use for all that space, but I feel like I'm being a horrible, ungrateful person throwing away the lovely cards people have written. *facepalm*Burn 'em. I don't mean just chucking them in a fireplace or on a bonfire, like I do with >10y old tax forms, credit card statements, etc.; rather set up a little ceremony where you burn the cards in order to release the good will contained within. Once the good will is released, you can continue to spread it to others (before it becomes too tainted with the frustration of storing the cards). Of course, if there are cards that seem too precious to destroy, you can spare and archive them, to remind you of the quality of the good will that you have received when you need a little boost with the spreading ( ... )

mousme August 4 2011, 17:27:13 UTC

Good idea. I will wait for the next opportune occasion, since burning stuff in the city is harder than it sounds. ;)

kiwano August 4 2011, 20:43:45 UTC

Also living in a city, burning stuff doesn't actually sound all that easy to me. I tend to take the "sneak off into a large park in the dark of night and improvise a fire pit" approach. This approach becomes, well, unsafe once autumn rolls around (though it works great in the winter).

diggerlicious August 5 2011, 13:45:58 UTC

Wow, brilliant ideas. I wish to see the pretty house. But I can say, from experience, that living close to train tracks (not a YARD, mind you) is not a problem for me, at least. I like to be awoken by the steady rumble of a passing train and check the box in my head that says "the world has not come to an end" (dammit).