A New Life for Old Greeting Cards
It’s great to send and receive cards. But what do you do with them once the holiday season is finished?
One of my friends bought her kids a paper recycling kit for Christmas with the aim of taking all the greeting cards they received and turning them into decorative paper that could be used for this year’s birthday cards.
But if you haven’t got the time or the creative gene for such an enterprise, consider this alternative.
Send your used greeting cards to Jude’s Ranch for Children in Boulder City. They’ve been running a Recycled Card Program for the past thirty odd years. Children and volunteers take the donated cards and create new recycled cards by removing the front of the original card and attaching a new back. These cards are then sold at the ranch’s gift store (and online) in packages of 10, with the proceeds of all sales going to the ranch which provides a safe haven for abused, neglected and abandoned children in Southern Nevada.
St Jude’s are accepting all used, all-occasion greeting cards up until Feb 28, 2009, so why not have an early spring clean and dig out all the birthday and other cards received last year?
Mail them to: St. Jude’s Ranch for Children, Card Recycling Program, 100 St. Jude’s St., Boulder City, NV 89005. Of course, if you’re in the neighborhood, you could always deliver them in person and maybe even pick up some new cards for this year.
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4 Comments
January 17th, 2009 at 7:16 am
That’s a great idea. I usually go thru my Xmas cards and save the ones that I really liked and can’t part with and use them for book marks.
Many moons ago when I went to Catholic School, I didn’t realize that the nuns were recycle minded. They used to ask all the children to bring in their old cards. They would cut out what they used for crafty items and we used up the rest for scrap paper used for a quiz or just to figure out some math problems. Local businesses would donate all kinds of other paper.
We were not funded by the town or the state, so they recycled.
Tuition was $25.00 a year. Can you believe that?
Elly D.
January 17th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Love reading about this. I do it myself: http://asteriahanover.blogspot.....cards.html
And am glad to know of a place who will take the leftovers when I get too ambitious! What a perfect program for all of the card exchanging we do and a second life for memories to boot.
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January 18th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
This is a wonderful idea. I’ve always kept my cards thinking one day I would do something creative with them, but I just never did. But now I know the perfect thing to do.
January 18th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I’ve never understood these card recycling schemes. It’s great when it supports a good cause but in most areas, greeting cards can be recycled in the normal household recycling along with other paper.
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