Maybe this goes here?
For those of you who have penpals, how do you store your penpal letters?
Maybe this goes here?
For those of you who have penpals, how do you store your penpal letters?
Thank you @Bille for putting this in the right place!
In a drawer under my desk. So I’ve an easy access to it
I store them until I reply, then I scan them and throw them away.
i keep my letters in what i call the elephant
i’m looking for a new one though because this one is full with letters from my old penpal, which i don’t wanna throw away. but now i have a new penpal which i hope to get a lot of letters from so that deserves its own box.
In shoe boxes decorated with wrapping paper. By year!
I store them with my postcards, but I want to find a new ideas for storage☺️
Currently in boxes (shoeboxes or biscuit boxes or something), each penpal’s letter tied together with a simple elastic band. When I was a kid at my parents’, they were in a drawer… Then two drawers. Now the old ones that I kept are in a box in a wardrobe at my parents’.
I keep all my letters in a shoebox. Letters from each person are in a large envelope each.
I use an accordion file organizer. I trim them down as much as possible first/remove any extra goodies. If they have cool stamps I soak the stamps off and throw the rest of the envelope away.
This is lovely and a good idea!
I put them in folders, divided by pen-pal, and I keep them in a drawer of a dresser.
But I want to change, because the dresser is old and the drawer is difficult to open. Every time it makes me mad.
I store mine in this box. It was a converse shoe box that I spray painted blue. I also like to put stickers on it
I keep my letters on their own shelf on my bookshelf.
The middle one, hehe.
I usually keep them in the envelopes they came in, sorted chronologically by person.
I like to look to my bookcase and see the letters quietly stacked, it feels nice.
On the side is my homemade binder of postcards too.
Unless very special, I recycle the paper every year or so since I make my own recycled paper, but sometimes I save clippings or a page and paste it into one of my journals.
Of course and stickers or washi will have been saved.
I have moved this topic to Postcards & Mail as it’s more appropriate (since it’s not related to Postcrossing).
Started with shoe boxes. Then a bigger plastic see-through box. I also scan (app called genius scan) the postcards front and back the app sends them automatically to dropbox or other and can view them anytime. I like it because you scan front and back to a pdf file.