Fourteen - Recycling Cards

We all get cards -- birthday, wedding, get well, congratulatory, etc. After our wedding, I saved all our cards because I felt like it was such a waste to dispose of them. I use to be a person that saved just about every card I was given, but this isn't very practical either.

So, if you get a wedding card, birthday card, shower card, etc in the near future from Guthrie or myself, if it seems a little DIY, it is, and know that the money we saved (sometimes around $5 for the eco, recycled paper, give money to women in Africa, etc cards) will now go into to getting you a better gift! :)

I try to send electronic birthday cards, though sadly, they are not as in vogue and seem like the easy way out or actually sending someone a card. I think they can be more fun to personalize and sometimes take even more time. Plus, who doesn't like an interactive card? You can look a it a few times, but once your birthday has come and gone, you usually just throw away the card anyway, right? Deleting the email is a lot more eco. Here is some info from RecycleWorks.org on holiday cards alone:

- 2.65 billion Christmas cards are sold each year in the US -- enough to fill a football field 10 stories high!
- if we each sent one less card, we'd save 50,000 cubic yards of paper

So, the next time you need a card, think about going electronic or recycling some materials you already have. That's what we are going to do!

Peace!