| Date: | July 5, 2007 / year-entry #243 |
| Tags: | non-computer |
| Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070705-01/?p=26133 |
| Comments: | 11 |
| Summary: | My favorite greeting card is one I got from :: Wendy ::. It was a Christmas card with a picture of kids running around while snow fell all around them. Wendy added the message, "Watch out for that 'rogue' snowball from midfield..." I still have that card on my windowsill years later. My recommendation for choosing a... |
My favorite greeting card is one I got from :: Wendy ::. It was a Christmas card with a picture of kids running around while snow fell all around them. Wendy added the message, "Watch out for that 'rogue' snowball from midfield..." I still have that card on my windowsill years later. My recommendation for choosing a memorable greeting card is to go to the wrong aisle in the greeting card store. I always start with the "blank cards" aisle since you can look for a picture that sets an interesting scene (like Wendy's snowball fight) and then add a short message inside. Last year, I went to the Sympathy aisle to get a birthday card for a friend who was trying not to show his concern over turning 30. After some searching, I found the perfect card. It was your usual sappy sympathy card with flowers and birds on the cover and some text about peace and comfort. And on the inside, it simply said, "Hope you feel better soon." I added, "Happy birthday." |
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The second link doesn’t seem to be working.
I guessing it is this one: http://www.mfashop.com/212150203.html
Slightly off topic but I didn’t know you and Wendy knew each other. Weird. The internet is a small world I guess. She has a very interesting parenting background. How many other English/Finnish people are there in the world? I lived in Finland for many years and I know of only one other than Wendy.
I do that too, for example for a christmas card I got my brother a birthday card, and then at the bottom I wrote "wait a minute, you’re not Jesus! Merry Christmas"
I’m sure it’s been done before, but I like it.
jeradc – that is the card.
Get well soon cards can be made to work for all sorts of people or events: graduation, marriage, babys arriving, divorce, promotion. I recommend keeping a stock of blank and get well soon cards in house for all your emergency greeting card needs. you know it makes sense.
PS sending the get well soon card to a recent ex-spouse requires expert skill, seek an experts advice before sending.
A friend of mine, when traveling, has a habit of sending postcards of a city other than the one he is visiting (from Rome, he would send a New York card, etc). This tends to make them memorable because one has to think which city they actually currently are visiting (usually, he only writes cryptic clues on the card).
When my wife turned 40, I went to the kiddie card section, got a Barbie card that said on the front something like "The princess is turning 4" and appended a zero to make it 40. That’s the best card I’ve ever given to anyone.
My trick: pick any card that has lots of words, then just cross out all the words you don’t mean. This is A LOT of work, but the results can be tremendous.
My personal favorite is to mix and match the outside and inside of different cards. Not only does that make for some really ridiculous cards, it doubles as a fun greeting-store game to pass the time.
Tomi wrote:
…one has to think which city they actually currently are visiting (usually, he only writes cryptic clues on the card).
Do cards no longer acquire postmarks?
If you purchase a recently issued stamp, you can send your post card to the issuing post office to have them postmark it and forward it to the final recipient.