Throw them away.

I hang them up at work, and my frig at home. I need a constant remainder of my passion for travel :)

These are all awesome ideas.

indytravel - sending them before you leave cracks me up for some reason.

I hardly send post cards anymore, most people don't care anymore either.

And those of you that said "throw them away", noooooooooo!!! I usually throw everything away (and I mean everything, I'm obsessed with those clean house, clean sweep, organizing type shows).... but you can't throw away post cards.

I have a rather large book whose purpose it is to store postcards. I've had it so long I can't remember where it came from. On the front it says "cartes postales" and the pages have slits in them, perfect for positioning the postcards.

Wonder where I got that thing? Soon I will need another one!

Mine are in the various little plastic and paper bags in which all the little bits I save on holiday end up - tickets, leaflets, postcards etc.

And those are in turn strewn around the house, in drawers, boxes, on the floor.

Our house is NOT exactly a Domestic Godess domicile.

I buy big poster frames and fill them with photos, postcards, receipts, hotel business cards, metro passes, museum passes, train tickets, etc. If I don't fill up all the space, I go to the scrapbooking store and get stickers that are travel related to fill the extra space. I currently have two posters hanging on my dining room wall (one from trip to Italy, France and Greece; and the other from second trip to Italy). I'll soon add one from trip to Paris this past spring. I have a Cinque Terre calendar on my wall at work, which sends me daydreaming almost daily!

I teach 9th grade World History. Recently, I laminated all my postcards and hung them on the walls around my classroom. Kids love to look at them and I can enjoy them too!

offwego- I need a book like that! Where oh where did you get it.

tammylouky- I used to do that in college, I made a big boarder of them. That is a good idea too though, for when I get my own classroom someday (stuck being a sub for another year).

Tammylouky, that's exactly what I was thinking. If you don't find a way to use them yourself, before throwing them away, offer them to a school in your area. In my school, all the fifth graders participate in the Geography Bee and postcards are a great way to get them interested in geography, culture and people all over the world. One year I asked all the families in the school to send postcards of their summer travels to the fifth grade class. Many postcards came in and in September, the cards started us on a great learning experience. So, don't throw the cards away, please, but think of other ways to make use of them.

Indy, I don't understand how do you get the cards from another country BEFORE you leave your own country?

I usually bring the cards and mail them from home when I return. So far haven't been caught :)

When I read the title of this thread, I took it to mean postcards that have been received. It made me think of my husband's lovely grandmother. When she died a few years ago, we ended up with many of her cookbooks. She had used cards and postcards received from friends as bookmarks for her favorite recipes. I have left them, and think of her and her friends as I thumb through the books.

I try to limit 2 - 3 per city I visit. I then purchase wood and decoupage them on. I have made 2 end tables and a set of dinner trays this way. Also add in a few coasters of places I have been.

Clea

<i>I usually bring the cards and mail them from home when I return. So far haven't been caught.</i>

Doesn't the US postmark give it away. :)

Kavey, OK, you can come to my house. You'd recognize the style. I suffer from CHAOS (can't have anyone over syndrome). And when you come, you can help me find that plastic bag with all my stuff from Rome last winter. Still trying to locate it so I can finish my scrapbook.

Pottery Barn has this big framed glass shadowboxes that you can put lots of postcards in and hang on the wall. I don't know if I like this or not....


http://ww2.potterybarn.com/cat/pip.c...amp;gids=p4425