Where do you keep letters?

[BiaP]

I'm so crazy when it comes to having everything organized. I keep every letter in sheet protectors in a three ring binder. Extra paper is in the front and envelopes, my favorite pen, stamps, and fun postcards are in the pockets.
I even keep a stamped envelope with me and extra stamps in my wallet and each purse. Just in case!
Hopefully that doesn't sound crazy lol

[rickysgrl]

Ahhh, that's so organized! I've been telling myself for a year to organize my letters! I just get discouraged when I think about how many of those plastic page protectors I'll need to buy! At some point I do plan on organizing them. I have a scrapbook. For now, they're in a box...in my closet. The newer ones are on my dresser.

[BiaP]

A scrapbook is a good idea!

[toddslady]

Letters everyday for the past ten years. I don't think I could ever find enough of those plastic protectors. Do they make that many of them?? lol Mine are all just in boxes. I know that I'll never go back and read them all again but I can't make myself get rid of them! Maybe when he comes home in November. We'll have a big bonfire and burn the ton of legal and prison paperwork together! That would be a good way to put this all behind us!!!

[aliciacreel]

Originally Posted by BiaP

I'm so crazy when it comes to having everything organized. I keep every letter in sheet protectors in a three ring binder. Extra paper is in the front and envelopes, my favorite pen, stamps, and fun postcards are in the pockets.
I even keep a stamped envelope with me and extra stamps in my wallet and each purse. Just in case!
Hopefully that doesn't sound crazy lol

That's funny that you bring that up because I do a lot of the same thing! Only I type my letters so I don't have paper and a pen in my binder but I have all of his letters in binders in plastic sheet protectors I have 5 binders with 100 sheet protectors in each binder. So we're in between 400 and 500 pages I do have a drawer for him though at my desk which has all my stamps and envelopes. And with my envelopes, I have printed out address labels for both my return address and his address that are all "prettied" up. My address label is pink with hearts on it and says "I love you" and his is blue with a little muscle man figure next to his name with the alpha and omega sign (because he my everything-my world) and I have his name in the Old English Lettering because he has a tattoo on his arm with his Uncle Rick's initials since he died back in 2008.

So no, I don't think you're crazy at all!!

[sly_bby_girl]

im doing the same thing. i keep every letter i got from him in my binder with sheet protectors. im doing it because i want to keep all letters safe and where i can reread them all over again when i want to.

[BiaP]

Originally Posted by sly_bby_girl

im doing the same thing. i keep every letter i got from him in my binder with sheet protectors. im doing it because i want to keep all letters safe and where i can reread them all over again when i want to.

I used to keep my favorites out but unfolding and re-folding as much as I was started to ruin them. Especially the ones from when he was in county because those are in pencil.

[BiaP]

Originally Posted by toddslady

Letters everyday for the past ten years. I don't think I could ever find enough of those plastic protectors. Do they make that many of them?? lol Mine are all just in boxes. I know that I'll never go back and read them all again but I can't make myself get rid of them! Maybe when he comes home in November. We'll have a big bonfire and burn the ton of legal and prison paperwork together! That would be a good way to put this all behind us!!!

Yeah that's quite a few sheet protectors lol. Congratulations on him coming home!

[shaunna]

mine are in sheet protectors in a folder

[FiFi n Miles]

Our letters are in big suitcases. I number them in the back. Once I get to 30 I throw them in the suitcase. I start again. He sends his home. Everytime he has 500 letters he ships them home. Those. 2 suitcases area going to be left to our 6 Boys. I always tell him I can just imagine the kids reading them. He says there going to read who we talked about, who we made fun of, what we didn't like, our nastiness, how we laughed and cried. So back to the thread, we keep our letters in a big suitcase for each.

[luckyhim]

Right now my letters from him are in a file cabinet drawer at my job. At some point I want to store them in binders I need to bring them all home lol

Loving him forever!

[ohsweetmaryjane]

I used to keep mine under my pillow.....but then the stack got so big that I was sleeping on a lump everynight....LOL....so now I have them in a shoe box.

[Real Checker]

What I started doing with old letters is scan them into my computer. I keep actual letters boxed away, but everything I want to save is scanned. The date of the letter (or postmark) I used as part of the file name and each person a letter came from has their own folder.

[BiaP]

Originally Posted by FiFi n Miles

Our letters are in big suitcases. I number them in the back. Once I get to 30 I throw them in the suitcase. I start again. He sends his home. Everytime he has 500 letters he ships them home. Those. 2 suitcases area going to be left to our 6 Boys. I always tell him I can just imagine the kids reading them. He says there going to read who we talked about, who we made fun of, what we didn't like, our nastiness, how we laughed and cried. So back to the thread, we keep our letters in a big suitcase for each.

Wow, six boys! I bet they're going to have some great stories to read. That's so cool.

[BiaP]

Originally Posted by Real Checker

What I started doing with old letters is scan them into my computer. I keep actual letters boxed away, but everything I want to save is scanned. The date of the letter (or postmark) I used as part of the file name and each person a letter came from has their own folder.

That's a good idea!