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07-17-2008, 01:53 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 67
| Graduation Gift Cards - What to do with them? (For recent HS grads/parents)
No, I don't mean the kind with money attached (those are nice!). I mean the Hallmark cards with nice notes inside from high school friends, parents, and teachers. I have a shoebox full of these, and don't know what to do with them. I'm a pack rat to begin with, and it seems a shame to throw out all these cards, many of them with really sweet messages inside, many of them from people I may not have much interaction with in the future. So - any creative ideas on what to do with them? | 
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07-17-2008, 02:35 PM
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#2 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 898
| I think mine are still in a shoebox at home, along with some other senior year stuff. Class of '06 so I've had them two years and don't want to toss them...but don't know what to do with them. In 10 years I'll probably pull out that box, remember my friends and teachers, and put them back to get out again later. | |
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07-17-2008, 02:38 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 56
| Make a scrapbook? | |
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07-17-2008, 03:23 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 290
| Cards4Life- This is cheesy, but after I read what you posted and then looked at your username, I couldn't help but grin.
I'm doing the keeping the cards squirreled away and randomly looking at them thing. I never throw out cards for any occasion. I feel guilty if I try. | |
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07-17-2008, 03:40 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 388
| Hang them up on the ceiling? | |
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07-17-2008, 04:23 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 179
| At my school, we got this big red envelope full of cards from teachers, parents, other students, and family members (those who didn't just send cards directly to the house, anyway). I just tossed the rest of my graduation cards into that. I'm going to keep them by my yearbook, I think. | |
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07-17-2008, 05:04 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 898
| haha...my username has nothing to do with "cards" in the sense that this thread is discussing. I love the St Louis Cardinals.....but yeah, I hate throwing stuff away. I've accumulated a lot of random crap in college that makes my friends wonder why I ever kept it. | |
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07-17-2008, 05:06 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 1,251
| I never keep cards. It's not like I'm going to ever look at them again. If you really are set on keeping them, I guess you could make a scrapbook. Some people just stuff them in their yearbook. | |
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07-17-2008, 05:32 PM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Miami, Fl.
Posts: 530
| I threw them away | |
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07-17-2008, 05:37 PM
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#10 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 931
| bonfire. its awesome. me and my friends burned bookbags, textbooks, notes, binders, etc.... and then lied down and looked at the stars. | |
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07-17-2008, 09:00 PM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Miami, Fl.
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| awwwwwwwwwww | |
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07-17-2008, 09:23 PM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: VT -> Oberlin '12
Posts: 930
| I took a couple of the most personal/meaningful and tucked them into my yearbook, for easy access when I feel like reminiscing (along with the program from graduation and a few other things). The rest are just going in a shoebox in my closet.
Something slightly more creative, if they're small enough, would be to get a little photo book with pockets and put them in there. | |
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07-17-2008, 09:31 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: S. Korea and USC '10
Posts: 1,715
| yeah i throw them away unless its special... i feel guilty too but I hate carrying stuff around so (i have no home in the states so I have to pack EVERYTHING) | |
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