Card Donations: questions, resources, and sharing

I think that if you read the fine print, they will take them, they just don't prefer them. I know they prefer signed cards to unsigned cards as well, so I'd probably reach and see if they'll take them.

Cards for Kindness takes adult birthday cards, but requests unsigned specifically.

Maybe reach out to nursing homes, senior centers, and similar facilities in your community to see if someone can use them?

Cards for Cubs serves young adults in foster care as well as kids, but you'd have to hang to them for a full year.

EtA: If you adult birthday cards are fully signed BStS may also be able to find a senior community you can send them to directly.

Thanks for your good advice Shakti & Joblackford - will reach out and ask. They’re fully signed just need a destination. One way or another they’ll find a home!

joblackford do you know when BSTS accepts Christmas cards?
I recycled a bunch and I was wondering if I can send them in now or if I have to wait.

Thank you Jo

Here to pick brains, if there are any around on a summer Saturday....

I'm spending some of today remaking Pea card exchange cards for Bring Smiles to Seniors, since they take all random holiday cards, which Cards for Kindness really doesn't. I mean, they may have a brief window when they accept Halloween cards or whatever, but who has time to chase that down all the time? BSTS doesn't like completely blank cards, though, so I'm making sure to stamp a sentiment on the insides. I'm looking at my fall/autumn non-Halloween cards now and wondering whether to stamp a generic fall message or Happy Thanksgiving. I'm leaning a little toward the latter. Thoughts?

I ended up going with the Happy Thanksgiving "innie". I decided that while BSTS takes pretty much all hello/thinking of you types of cards (though they prefer them with inner sentiments) and pretty much all holidays, autumn greetings or similar fell into a void where it was seasonal and needed to be sorted in a way that a generic hello/thinking of you didn't. For that reason, it seemed more fair to the organizers to call them Thanksgiving cards.

But now it has me second-guessing how I'll remake spring and summer cards. Though I suppose many spring ones can be rehabilitated with an Happy Easter innie....