If you know someone with their own compost pile you can spin it into "all your warm fuzzy sentiments are helping this tree and these shrubs grow."

What's the point of greeting cards? Particularly store bought ones. Nobody cares about receiving greeting cards.

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I never understood it either until I realized that they're basically a $3 recepticle for whatever cash/check/gift card that you actually want to give to the person. You're supposed to pretend that the card is the real gift and the contents are just an afterthought, because at some point some asshole from the Hallmark marketing department convinced your grandma that it's tacky to give plain cash as a gift.

I am a hoarder and hang on to everything. Last week I found a 8 year old card, amazingly near the top of my piles. I guess I will throw them out if I move.

Around Xmas/birthday/other times that necessitate cards, I usually just put every card I get on a shelf or mantle (if I have one) for a week or two because it makes me feel ballza to do what I think is the gracious thing.

Mostly, though, this isn't a problem for me. My girlfriend and most of my friends are fairly artsy fartsy so I get a lot of either homemade cards or cards that are made by some local artist and bought at a farmer's market or whatever and I actually want to hold onto it or display it for a little while so I can enjoy it.

Some of my friend's are just practical and don't buy a card at all.

The only person who regularly sends me generic-ish store bought cards these days is my grandma and she often crams every square inch of them with tiny writing updating me on her life and various family goings-on and asking me questions about my life. I often keep those. Not all of them, but I have 4 or 5 because I like having these little reminders of how much my granny loves me and thinks about me.

I get where you're coming from, OP, because I am definitely not a very sentimental person. But at the same time, most of the cards I get tend to be quite thoughtful or personal in one way or another. The only outright generic "Dear Dzhokhar, Merry Xmas!" cards I get are from my boss.