Organize Greeting Cards

Like with anything else, having your greeting cards in order is convenient, saves time and money and just rocks!

Outlined below is the process as well as the products to organize greeting cards and other stationary items, so use the following tips to get started!





The Process

Utilize the general organizing procedure of purge, sort and store, and apply it when you organize greeting cards, birthday cards and other stationary items.

Purge:

• Start by gathering all of your greeting cards, invitations, envelope stickers and any other appropriate items. Pick up one item at a time and decide if it is worth keeping. In order to accomplish this, ask yourself appropriate questions (i.e. Is this card still in good condition? Is it creased or ripped? Is it outdated?).

• As you make decisions, put the item in the corresponding pile/bag/box - Keep, Trash or Recycle.

• Take out the trash and recycling when finished with this process. This hinders the possibility of undoing your hard greeting card organizing work.


Sort:

• Now that you have gotten rid of all unnecessary items, it's time to focus on what's left. Separate the remaining things into categories (i.e. birthday cards, thank you notes, sympathy, friendship, congratulations, holiday cards, envelope stickers, random envelopes and so on).

**PLEASE NOTE: For a quicker organizing process, combine the purging and the sorting into one seamless step. For example, let's say you pick up a birthday card and decide it is worth keeping. Start a "birthday card" pile, so that the next time you come across a birthday card you want to keep you can put them together.**


Store:

• With your greeting cards categorized, you can see how much you have of everything. Use organizational products accordingly. See products suggested below.

• So...where should you keep your greeting cards? Well, where are you most likely to write them? In the home office? In the kitchen? By the front door? Whatever your answer is...is the answer!


Maintain:

• Greeting cards are fun! I have plenty of them just like the next person. As soon as I get a new one, I put it in the greeting card "home," so I can find it when I want to use it. This is a good habit to adopt - saves time, money, and frustration.



The Products

The products to organize greeting cards are handy, convenient and fun! Check out the suggested items below.

SendOutCards.com
Cut back on the paper in the house and use this greeting card service. They do it all for you!

Plastic Greeting Card Case

This is a sturdy product that comes with removable dividers, so you can customize it to what greeting cards you have.


My Greeting Card Organizer - a Favorite to Organize Greeting Cards!
I have a client who uses a book like this and loves it! Never forget to send a greeting card again by using this spiral bound book. There are pockets for each month along with space to write down important dates and more.


New Uses for Greeting Cards!
1. Before tossing used baby announcements, birthday cards, thank you notes, etc. in the recycling bin, turn them into one-of-a-kind gift tags. Tear off the front cover and cut into squares or any shape of your choice. Write your message on the back, punch a hole in it and attach it to a gift with ribbons.

2. Repeat #1 and use for scrapbooking.

3. Repeat #1, but cut into long strips instead of small squares and use as them as bookmarks.