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Organizing Blank Greeting Cards

11/8/2015

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A client of mine wanted some help organizing her blank greeting cards which got me thinking about my own greeting card collection.  I knew (or thought) my cards were fairly organized, so I pulled out my box of cards.......... and then another box and yet another box and then an expandable folder.  So maybe I wasn't quite as organized as I thought.  It was time for a new system!  I decided to make a greeting card filing system that would allow me to easily find a card by category.  After going through all the cards, I realized that most of them were so old and out-of-date that I only had a couple of dozen that I would actually use.  I sorted the remaining cards by categories and cut some kraft poster board to make dividers.  I cut out "tabs" from the poster board, attached small chalk-board clothes pins and marked the card categories on them.  A simpler version would be to use a label maker to mark the tabs or simply write the category names directly onto the tabs.  Much better!  I now have one neatly organized box of greeting cards with plenty of space to buy more! 
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Cathy
12/8/2015 04:59:08 pm

What did you use for the box and how big is it? I'm interested in a system like this (as I think you know!)

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Mandy @ The Thrifty Organizer
12/8/2015 05:17:13 pm

Hi Cathy,
Yes, you inspired me to do a "trial run" on this! My box is like the size that would hold photos, about 8" x 10". This is a nice size to work with because it holds cards nicely. If there are lots of cards to be stored, a couple of boxes would do the trick. (:

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