Recycle Those Birthday Cards
My daughters recently turned 1 and 3 and only 2 weeks apart! I had a birthday party for both of them on the same day and invited family and friends to our home. The girls received many great birthday cards and gifts. After the party I was looking through the birthday cards and noticed that they were just to cute to just throw out. I decided to cut the fronts of the cards off and set them aside to use as recycled birthday cards.
If you want to do this too… All you need to do is cut down the fold of the card and save the front half. Throw out the back half. When you are ready to reuse the card just write your message on the back of the card front. Viola, a FREE and recycled birthday card! You can do this with Holiday cards and greeting cards too.
You can also cut out specific images from a card, punch a small hole and use as tags for gifts. My mother in law has been reusing cards as tags for many years, especially on her Christmas gifts.
By reusing greeting cards you can save $2.00 – $5.00 per card and more! Let the savings begin.
Other great ideas for reusing greeting cards and birthday cards:
1. Cut out images from a card that you like and attach to a gift as a decoration.
2. Cut a card into strips, laminate and use as bookmarks. Great as gifts too!
3. Cut cards into various shapes and use in a scrapbook or in a photo album.
4. Turn your cards into postcards….View how here.
5. Cut a section from a greeting card and write a note to your child and place in their lunchbox.
6. Use card cutouts as name tags at a holiday dinner table.
Some neat faq’s about greeting cards:
Americans buy almost 7 billion greeting cards annually, representing close to $7.5 billion in retail sales. Like most forms of paper, greeting cards impact the environment adversely during their disposal and production alike, initially consuming virgin resources (trees, water, fuel) before ending up in landfills as part of the approximately 85 million tons of paper waste generated by Americans in 2006.
Recycling greeting cards, which can be done in communities that accept mixed paper in their recycling programs, is one way to keep greeting cards out of the waste stream. Reusing greeting cards is another, creative way to keep them out of landfills. The fewer greeting cards purchased to begin with the less their environmental impact. If all Americans trimmed their card list by only one card, the savings would amount to 50,000 cubic yards of paper.
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Great idea! I never would have thought of that. Also, never really thought of the waste cards actually make! Thanks for the ideas!
I have stacks and stacks of old cards that are too cute to chuck. You can get very creative with this idea and involve the kids!