How do you organize photo cards

I'v only kept a few from family and close friends. But I threw a bunch out last year from friends we lost touch with.

What's left aren't organized at all, but now they're taking up much less space. In an envelope, in a box, somewhere in my craft space.

katlady , I hereby give you permission to throw away all the photo cards that you no longer want to keep 

No guilt.

Ain't that the truth!

I did something I saw on Becky Higgins' blog (with a little influence from Stacy Julian's Library of Memories ideas) - I cut out the photos of the people I cared about and put them in pocket pages. Very few cards were so awesome that I wanted to leave them intact, but if I did I just hole punched them or put them on cardstock and added them to the album as is. But most cards I cut down, focusing on the people in the photo, sometimes just choosing the best photo if there were several, and made them either 4x6 or 3x4".

I struggled a bit with how to organize them - whether to keep them all by year (much easier) or arrange by family and leave space for future years. But it's easy to change around if I change my mind, or if someone stops sending photos. I love the pages I made with old photo cards I had saved, seeing my friends' kids grow from babies into teenagers.

I throw out the people who I don't care enough to have in my holiday albums. I'll put the random former coworkers on the wall during the Xmas season, but I don't need to keep them. I don't get many cards from people I've otherwise lost touch with, but I would go with the emotional test - does holding the card in your hand and looking at it make you feel nostalgic or good (keep it) or bad, guilty, sad, angry, regretful, something else negative (toss it).

I love looking through my Christmas albums with all these people I love in them much more than I enjoyed thumbing through a box of cards. If I had a dedicated "people I love" album I think this would be awesome in it, but I just keep them with my December Daily/Christmas albums or in the back of my PL album.

I group them by family in chronological order. 

Ones that are a one-off are just organized chronologically.

I don't put any of them in a book, though. I just have them in a box, with the grouped ones in front and the single cards chronologically toward the back.   It's fun to look back 15 years...

I only keep family. They are in a box with other cards I've kept.

I make a little album of all the Christmas cards we get in a year.
I make a chipboard cover that is slightly bigger than the largest card, decorate it simply with some patterned paper and the year.
I use a hole punch and binder rings to hold it all together.

Takes no time at all and doesn't take up much space either.
Eighteen25 had a tutorial: eighteen25.com/2011/12/christmas-card-books/

I do a scrapbook page each year with a pocket that holds my Christmas cards. It helps that I don't get all that many. Less than 20. Here are a couple of pages I've done. I like this, because I just add the page to my album and don't have to store anything extra.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=crEEKnET_8g

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rommxz2hynU