friends cuts - what's your strategy?

So I don't think I've done a friends cut in years. There are tons of dead journals in my friends list but since they are dead, I don't really noticed them until I need to look at my Friends list for some reason or when I get the birthday reminders and say to myself "who the heck is that?".

Sometimes people do reappear though so I worry about cutting them just because they were abandoned for the past few months.

What are your strategies for friends cuts? Do you just remove dead journals as you see them or do you do an annual culling?

top 25 LOL

Apparently my entry about friends cuts just made the "top 25 livejournal entries" right now because you all are so chatty!

Seems kind of hilarious that a post about how to cut friends from livejournal is now featured as a popular post!