In the year 2005, 2.65 million holiday cards were made, and most of them ended in the dustbin. For you a card’s worth may not be more than $1.00. However, if you sit down to count the number of trees that were felled to create holiday cards, you would soon realize that creating holiday cards is not a cheap proposition. Hence, it’s worthwhile to think about various strategies to recycle the holiday cards.
- You can create new holiday cards by cutting and pasting part of old cards on new blank cards.
- Your school-going children are always in need of materials for their art and craft class. Holiday cards can fulfill many of their needs.
- You can use your old holiday cards to make gift tags. Cut the card into square or rectangular shape, and punch a hole at the corner for ribbon.
- Use your old holiday cards a postcards by cutting off the back portion.
- If you’re thinking of buying new placemats, then don’t because you can easily create new ones from your old holiday cards. All you have to do is, cut out the picture from your old holiday cards, and place them together between two pieces of contact paper, and finally, press them.
- If you don’t want to try out any of the above recycle techniques, then simply donate your old holiday cards to organizations as St. Jude’s Ranch, where young children are paid to create new holiday cards from old ones.
