It’s scary how the dates on the calendar just keep creeping closer and closer to Christmas in such a relentless fashion! I can’t seem to keep up!
But one thing I’m NOT stressing about this year is my Christmas cards. Thanks to OfficeMax Impress Print Center, I created, ordered and received my cards in record time and am close to finishing up addressing them.
I realize Christmas isn’t for two more weeks, but I was a little concerned about shipping and mailing dates….so I decided to look them up for all of us. :-)
Here they are straight from the United States Post Office website:
Holiday Shipping and Mailing Dates for Domestic Mail
Make sure you know the recommended dates if you’re hoping your gifts will arrive by December 25.
- First-Class Mail® Service - Deadline is Dec. 20
- Priority Mail® Service - Deadline Dec. 21
- Express Mail® Service* - Deadline Dec. 22
- Parcel Post® Service - Deadline Dec. 14
So never fear…you’ve still got time to order, address and send your cards! And here’s an added incentive……
OfficeMax ImPress Print Center is offering a great deal on custom holiday greeting cards that you can take advantage of now through December 30, 2012. At checkout, simply enter “CARDSAVINGS” to get 50% OFF! PLUS $50 OFF holiday card orders of $200 or more at www.officemaxphoto.com/holiday-store.html.
We have always put them up on a main wall in the shape of a Christmas tree. Thank you for the post, love the the blog.
They’re on the fridge!
We have two places to display cards—one of the wire wrapped holders in shape of Santa that have the circle clip on the wires; and also a folding decorative hanger that hangs flat on the wall for the larger ones—these can both be re-used every year.
Never manage to do the “formal”
pics–always do pics of grand kids and sometimes even manage to send them in December! Well—doesn’t everyone NEED a smile in JANUARY!!!!!
We leave them open on the piano.
hung around the door opening into our kitchen!! Also, have a card holder from Southern Living at Home that hangs on the wall.
We use clothespins to clip the cards to a length of wide ribbon that is tacked up on our bulletin board. My mom puts her ribbon on her fridge with magnets.
I put them all on the fireplace mantel
I use an Umbra photo holder. I saw that they now make Christmas tree shaped ones for that very purpose!
I clear an area in the kitchen and leave them open on the counter.
Thanks for the chance!!
I tape them to the back of the door of my apartment, that way I see all the smiling face of my friends and family as I’m leaving for the day!
I purchased some clear tablecloth material from the fabric store, placed on my tables (over Christmas color tablecloths) and arrange cards underneath the clear material for all to view while dining. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I’m super simple. We tape them all the refrigerator! (in an orderly manner of course).
We have a big wall in the kitchen with mainly our big calendar on it that we hang cards on. It’s the pathway from our living room to family room, so we use some blue putty stuff to hang them up and love seeing the wall FILL up!
Take a string of garland and attach them. It keeps them off the furniture and well its super easy to take down and add cards as the season goes on. =)
I tape them on the wall in the shape of a wreath and just overlap them into a circle and fill in wider and fuller as I receive more cards. I sure don’t get as many as I used to, but the ones I do get are wonderful.
We have a rock wall surrounding our fireplace, we sometimes hang a ribbon strung across it with the cards hanging on the ribbon, above the mantel.
I we tape out cards on the back of our door in the kitchen so we can see the cards easily.
I put them up all over my shelves at home, and the top of my work desk cabinet (since there are usually so many of them).
I found a grapevine wreath and hot glued clothes pins to it, so when I get a christmas card or really any kind of card all I have to do is put it in the clothes pin! Works really good and looks so cute as it fills up.
I reall don’t have a great way either very few are on the fridge and the rest I keep in a momento box
I staple them to a ribbon and hang them up that way.
We don’t get alot so we put them on the fridge! It brightens up our sad little kitchen.
Photo Cards go on the Fridge!! Love to see them. The others go in a basket. No one here really looks at them after the first time. :)
I live in a condo and I have a sunroom and there’s a sliding glass door out to the sunroom and I tape all my cards/letters on that door! :)
Great tips (specifically the list from Ramsey)! We generally follow most of these but the holidays still get overwhelming financially & emotionally (family dynamics) even without kids. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day are just too close together! As a semi-newly married couple just out of grad school and without steady jobs, it’d be great if those around us communicated better that they understood our financial situation to relieve obligation/guilt..learning to hold our ground. This year, we’ll probably go the newsletter route, no cards.
I tape them on the inside of our front door. My mother did this when I was young & now my children enjoy helping me tape the cards up also!
I typically tape them down the sides of my bookshelf, but this year I took an old frame and glued a few rows of ribbon. I’ve been hanging the cards with festive clothes pins!
Old fashioned Fridge and Magnets…
We put them on display at the entrance. I either frame them with frames I have or stick them to something to hold them up. We usually get picture cards.
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I wish I had a cute way to display them! They always end up in a bowl on my coffee table.
I usually put them on a ribbon with mini clothespins!
I made a Christmas garland with ornaments and clothespin that I have hanging in the divide between my kitchen and dining room. I also have a couple of card holders on the wall in the living room.
We tape them around the archway leading from the kitchen to the living room. It gives me warm fuzzies to be able to glance at all the warm-wishes from family friends while working in the kitchen :)
We clip them to the garlands that line the entrances to the living room, where the tree is located. That way, everyone gets to see the cards and enjoy them!
For years we would display them on the mantle but they had a tendancy to fall over at the slightest whim, so more recently, I have begun hanging them with clothespins on a “clothesline” made of garland on a wall or two that need decorating. Doing the same thing with my kids’ past and current Christmas art work. Makes for a festive area.
I take a long piece of bulky red yarn and punch a hole in the corner of each card. I string them on the yarn and hang it from my mantle. In years past I’d have so many cards that I could hang the string around my entire double door frame. Either looks pretty and festive.
Ill hold off until tomorrow to make ours then – planned in it today but I can hold off one more ;)
The last 2 years I’ve tied a piece I festive ribbon that matches my decor the entire way around the wrest on either side of the front door. Then used cute clips to secure the cards from top to bottom on each ribbon on the inside of the house. It gets a lot of compliments!
This is my first Christmas in my own household, so I really don’t know yet. But my parents always stuck them on the wall above and surrounding the dining room archway, which was a bit scattered-looking but extremely cheerful. They let us kids stick up all the new ones each day! We loved those tape loops!
I use the ever so popular pinterest green clothespin wreath that you hang on a wall. Looks great!
I use one of these in red http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/magnetic-photo-rope/ I use it year round, but then I clean it off at Christmas to display the cards.
Since I spend most of my day at my desk on my computer, I want to have the greeting cards I receive where I can see and enjoy them. My desk faces a window, so I put them up around the window frame. I also scan and save them in my computer so that I can use them as desktop backgrounds and screen savers. Best wishes for a joyous holiday to all!
I attatch the cards to a burlap wreath to display them. My when my daughter was much younger she always enjoyed doing this as her job to pin each one.
I take our Christmas cards and put a paper punch in the upper left hand corner and a decorative string or ribbon through them and then add them as a garland around the Christmas tree! You can keep adding as you get more, and by puttng the paper punch in the upper left hand corner people can look at the cards while they are on your tree. After Christmas I reuse the cards by cutting off the fronts of the cards (if they are non-photo cards) and then use them to cut into gift tags for presents for Christmas the next year! Free and easy!
I hang them from a greenery garland with cute little clips!
I hang ribbons on the kitchen cupboards, and then I can tape or staple the cards to those. They bring Christmas cheer into the room where we spend a lot of time cooking and singing as a family, and brighten a room that doesn’t otherwise get decorated.
Boring. I put my cards in a wicker basket.
I love to set them on the table. Simple. :)
I’ve made a quilted wallhanging with tiny little clothespins that hang all of our cards. I love to put it up each year. The clothespins are available at Hobby Lobby, Michaels, JoAnns, etc.
We get so many that it doesn’t work for us to “display” them like I’ve seen on several blogs – with strings/clothespins, wall Christmas trees, etc. I end up putting all of ours in a big ol’ bowl and leaving it where anyone can read them.
I hang them on the back of our front door. Normally we run out of space, and I hang them on the walls on each side of the door. My kids love seeing all of the photo cards, so I make sure I hang them at their height.