Do you keep business cards or do you throw away some of them?

Question

Over the course of my working life, I've collected the business cards of many people. Some of them I know I'll never need again. Others, I plan on keeping as a reference.

I'm trying to decide whether to keep all of them - kind of as like a remembrance of the people I've met. Or, should I be less reminiscent about business cards and go simply for function - throw out the ones I don't need anymore and keep the ones I do need?

Please help.

Answer 1

I accept and register the information, and toss those I don't find pertinent. Unless the scanner somehow categorizes them, I think it would still be too cumbersome. Maybe someone can write that program!

Answer 2

I would keep them.  Get yourself a business card organizer because you will never know when you may need them.  

Answer 3

Get a card scanner from an office supply store - scan them to your PC and they'll go into your contacts. Then you can toss all of them.

Answer 4

I keep them and jot down information on the back, mainly more detail o what the person does and some personal items.

Answer 5

I actually bought a 3 ring binder and put in those plastic card holder pages. I put them all in there and then periodically I go through them and discard the ones I never use, will never use, can't remember the person, etc..the ones I want to remember I put who they were, or who gave it to me on the back of the card as reference.  

Answer 6

I usually have them all folded and squished up before I get home so saving them isn't an option.

Answer 7

My husband keeps them all. Every single one of them. He has them organized in his own way and I stay out of them.