Recycle your cards! (Decoration Ideas)

Member Name: SusanLesley

Product:	Decoration Ideas
Date:	02/01/02 (227 review reads)
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Advantages: Saving the world's resources

Disadvantages: Wasting the world's resources if you don't recycle

Being a bit of a traditionalist I usually leave my Christmas decorations up until 12th night, but I am afraid the Christmas cards have to come down well before that!

I always stick most of them to the door at the bottom of the stairs (behind which are the gas and electricity meters so the door doesn't get opened over the holiday) and the rest go on the door in the kitchen.

They always look lovely when I first put them all up and it's nice to be able to see the pictures, as the cards seem to get more attractive every year. I'm sure you can sense that there is a BUT coming now can't you? Well here it is.

But, when they have been up for a while they start to curl at the edges and look really tatty, so that's why they always get taken down straight after New Year.

Now, what do I do with them next I hear you ask? Oh come on show a bit of interest!

My first job is to go through them all to check whether there are any messages written inside that I need to make a note of - new address, new e mail address, names of children so that I can put the names on my card next year! Incidentally I always write the names of the children in my address book below the parents name and address. I find that really useful when I am writing my cards each year, especially as I have a memory like a sieve!

The next thing that I do is to go through and see if there are any pictures or designs that can be cut out to make gift tags. All I do is cut out whatever it is that I find, punch a hole though the edge and thread thin red ribbon through it - hey presto a gift tag.

The final thing that I do is put all the remaining cards, and bits of cards, in a carrier bag along with all my birthday cards from November and take them to a recycling point.

Boots always have boxes in all their stores for the recycling of Christmas cards and they are there from New Year until the end of January so you have no excuse not t
o recycle.

I have also noticed that my local branch of Tesco's is also providing a recycling box this year, so that?s where mine will be going. I don't know whether all the Tesco's stores are doing this, I would imagine so.

Anyway the point is that it is something that we can all do to save just a little bit more of our world's resources and if we all do our bit surely it will make a difference.

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