How quickly do you throw away things like valentines and birthday cards? especially when they're from your sweetie?

I keep them a few months then out they go. Husband is a pack rat and drives me crazy, I throw his things in his pout room so I don’t see them.

I keep everything.

I burned the Valentines day one my ex gave me “You are my one and only” my ass

I keep all Birthday cards from family :)

I used to be more sentimental about these things than I am now. I keep cards for about a year whereas at one time I held onto them indefinitely.

They go into a collection of all the cards I’ve received since I’ve been living on my own.

From my wife and daughter, I keep them all.

From anyone else, I stand them up on the fireplace for about a week then toss them.

Years. I have valentines and Father’s Day cards from my kids from when they were in elementary school (they are both now in college). I still have all the cards from my last girlfriend (but none from my ex wife).

It depends, for regular birthdays and stuff I’d rather people not waste money on cards. For other things like a handmade valentines card from my first girlfriend I still have 25 years later.

I have every card and letter my wife has ever given me. It’s getting excessive after 16 years.

Rip them up as soon as I open the envelope, it’s the look of abject shock on the givers face that motivates me.

A few weeks.

My DIL still has Christmas cards and halloween cards on display in their house. She has Cooper’s 3rd birthday card still displayed. He’ll be 4 in May.

I keep letters and some cards that are sentimental.
Happy that I did as my late mother passed away in 2010 and this is a way to remember her.
I have 25 + years of personal letters from a Pen Pal in France that span a personal history of events in both places and our lives. Her University days, Marriage, her child, same as my experiences following our lives during these events. It actually a diary of events of which I scanned her letters to me and sent her in a binder for her Birthday years ago. Unfortunately she did not keep my letters of which I regret not having as it would had been a good way to document events in my life here in Canada vs hers in France.
( 1960’s – present day).
I hope to download scanned letters to a self published book format for preservation purposes.
I learned that my late Grandmother had written letters every week to relatives overseas of which documents her lifetime plus her marriage ,children’s lives etc One being my late mother and how they grew up in 1918 – 1939 when she married my father.
That would had been a good read since my parents never discussed their past.
Relatives in the Ukraine have the Grandmothers original letters but don’t want to give them up? ( I understand, but wish that they scan them..but economy bad their now..so I will wait)?

I keep Christmas cards, and cut them up for name tags to identify Christmas presents.