Carte Postale

Around 2 years when I started post crossing, I kept a stash of around 10 cards at any given time. Over the months, this grew to.. well I don’t even know how many blank postcards I have now. I bought about 3 kilos worth while away last year, and I tend to buy boxed, booked and well any old card I can lay my grubby hands on. Some of them end up in my own collection (though I do prefer them written on) and the rest are set aside for Post Crossing requests. If someone wants sunsets, boats, camels or anything else, I would dig through my stash to find something. After a while I got tired of that, and sorted the cards into categories for easier findering. Here’s the old system in action:

It worked pretty okay, but had some downsides. For one, this house is pretty much full of millipedes who like to crawl into boxes and die. Also the cards get bent up and dusty. ALSO the boxes tend to attract other bits and bobs that are not cards. ALSO unless i kept something in there to prop them up, the cards tended to all fall over all the time, which for some reason seriously annoys me.

I just finished sorting out the stash – including all the random things that weren’t in the original boxes – into these drawers. Ideally, I’d like to replace these with wooden drawers at some point, but for now the plastic is okay (and cheap). Plus sides are that the cards are stored flat, away from dust and bugs. The only downside is that oversized cards don’t fit, so I’m trying to think of something to do with those (apart from send entirely oversized cards to people for a while).

It’s odd how good I feel about finally sorting out the pile of cards. I also had a really good clean out of the cards I got in bulk a year or so ago, tossing the ones I’ll never send. Well not tossing, putting in a box to decide what to do with. I SHOULD throw them into the recycling, but I might collage or something with them. You never know.

My god this blog is fascinating, isn’t it?