By
eHow Home & Garden Editor
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Step1
Buy a scrapbook dedicated to your greeting cards. Whether you're part of the "scrapping" craze or not, you can make your own greeting card scrapbook easily and with little artistic skill. All you have to do is cut out the portion of the cover that you love the most and the greeting on the inside, attach it to a scrapbook page and you are good to go. If you want to further embellish the page, you can add a photo of the sender next to the card.
Step2
Organize your greeting cards in a three ring binder. If the scrapbooking idea is too time intensive, buy a three ring binder with a supply of top loading page protectors and slip each card inside. You can organize the cards by sender or by year and label the binder for easy identification.
Step3
Use file folders to store your cards. You can buy either accordion pocket file folders or inexpensive manila file folders with a plastic portable file box. With either choice, you simply label each file with the sender's name or the year received.
Step4
Go with the tried and true. Storage containers are an easy way to keep your greeting card collection safe. Rather than the old shoe boxes, however, buy a few attractive hat boxes, bins or colored plastic boxes and label the outside by name or year. You can store them out in the open on a shelf rather than let them collect dust bunnies under your bed.
Step5
Convert some of your greeting cards into postcards. Some of the cards you may love, but not necessarily want to keep. Check with your local post office on postcard size regulations, then take the most beautiful covers and share them with other friends and relatives who may need a smile.
Step6
Buy a greeting card organizer where you can separate cards you want to send by month and also have a place to store cards you received that year. Purchase one each year and you have an automatic way of keeping the cards people sent you organized by year.
