I love how once one person say they’re something (like a card hoarder), we all finally admit it. Because, yes I have sooo many cards at my parent’s house and probably won’t throw them away anytime soon 🙂

Love the Polenta! And, the organizing……did the recently before our move as well. It always takes you down memory lane. =)

I actually regret the fact that I didn’t keep wedding cards, etc. But, Bo and I have every letter/note that we’ve given to each other during our 7 years together so I guess that’s headway! I really need to get better about printing out pictures now and putting them in albums.

i used to be a card hoarder. when I moved to North Carolina though last year I had to go through and I think my mom threw them away accidentally. very upsetting.

I keep all of my cards and I am hurt when others don’t keep the cards that I give them and I buy special cards for my niece and nephew hoping that they will look back at them. It’s my Mom’s fault! She saved all of mine for me from birth!

Ooooh…I love the idea of polenta hash browns. Yum! I save cards, too, but usually go through them once a year to get rid of some of them. We just did this and it was cute reading cards Aaron and I wrote to each other.

I am a keeper of cards too! Both me and the bf have separate boxes where all our memory things are kept. I refuse to throw any away as I know that I will regret it.
It would have been interesting to know what was in your letter but it must have been really personal – I’m just glad things are so much better for you now.
Loving your omelette btw, love sundried tomatoes in anything.

I have saved cards and letters I’ve received since I was little, so I have a lot! I’m not a big hoarder/collecter in general, only with cards and letters. My Grandmother and I have been penpals since I was around 7 (I’m 24 now!) so I think those letters were what inspired me to save. I love writing and receiving letters.

Good luck with everything! So excited for you.

This summer, I actually found all of the cards I got through the first year of my birth (apparently my mom is a card hoarder too). There were cards from my birth, easter, christmas, and then my first birthday. I spent about an hour just reading them all, and it was definitely teary-eyed and awesome. You will definitely, definitely love looking back through those memories.

I had to clean out my childhood room and so many of my old pictures, cards and notes were thrown away. It really was painful seeing them all gone into the trash can because it did feel like throwing away memories (I hid all the cards in a box in the attic; I know I’ll appreciate what my grandmother wrote on my seventh birthday when I look back)
Katherine

My grandmother saved every card ANYONE ever gave her. She died when she was 87. My mom and aunt went through every card and separated them for every grandchild…all 13 of us! I received a package of cards in the mail that I had given her when I was a little girl…all the way through college! (They smelled like smoke…her bad habit which I hate…but that made them even more real) So…you’re not crazy!

i only keep cards that have something meaningful written in it..I toss the ones that say “WISH YOU ALL THE BEST! HAPPY BIRTHDAY”…CHUNK.

I collect cards 🙂 I keep the ones I receive, but I also buy vintage ones I find at flea markets!

I’m so happy for you and your move to Charlotte – it was the best thing I ever did and I hope you love it!

That is such a cute idea! I hardly ever save cards unless they are super, super special but it would be fun to have a nicely organized box of them to read through years later. Maybe I will borrow that idea from you 🙂

My husband is a card hoarder and I can understand why but I just don’t know what to do with stacks and stacks of cards. What a great idea to keep them organized like that – I’m going to the container store this afternoon! 🙂

I was thinking that in a way you are writing your self a card but in a huge way by keeping this blog and relive it all with all your fantastic pictures. I hope that makes sense,my sister once made fun and said “I think inside the box.” 😀
I’m crazy and throw most of my cards away because I so messy.

guess what i did yesterday – WENT THROUGH MY CARDS. Dead serious. I was on major memory organization mode on my day off yesterday – first i put all of my high school photos in albums and organized my photos from 2001-2010 for when i get more albums.

Then i sorted out my HUGE memory box. (im talking, like HUGE. Like, Bigger that the biggest suit case HUGE.) i would guess about 40% of the contents are cards and letters from my life time. I am making my own scrapbook with the cards – seperating them by year and occasion. Now that a bunch of my photos are organized, I may try to incorporate a few copies of them from the events (birthdays/holidays/etc) too. It’s going to be a huge, fun project and im pretty excited about it.

The first piece of writing work I ever REALLY started as a “piece” was a play. It’s a one character stage play, with multiple character voiceovers. the character is sorting through his memory box and as he unvcovers pieces from his life, so much character development appears as he “relives” emotions (this is where the voice overs come in – letters read in the voices of the people who sent them, remembering dialog between main character and the person who gave him the trinket he’s holding, etc.) I need to find it and give it a polish because I think it’s a really interesting concept, and I cuold probably bulk it up a bunch since I first started working on it before I was in my twenties.

i dont know why i just told you about that. ha.