Last week My Blessed had her annual Valentine/Birthday combination. I love it, its a weekend of All Jodi and it sometimes makes me wish it happened every month. She is so wonderful.
During this time it is a real cornucopia of Valentines cards and birthday cards. I read through them and think to myself:
Me: "What in the world is this rubbish?"
Self: "Yea, like you could do better."
Me: "I totally could. Do these people who write these cards have any friends at all?"
Self: "You don't, what are you worried about?"
Me: "It's like these writers have had no contact with human beings in any social setting. Maybe they were raised by typewriters."
Self: "Ooh, look! Pants are on sale."
Let me give you a couple of examples of what I am talking about, and you tell me if I am the only one who believes somehow we are being fleeced: (from actual cards)
"wishing you a very warm birthday."
"A Birthday is just another first day of a 365-day trip around the Sun. Enjoy the journey!"
"I hope all your birthday wishes and dreams come true."
"Wishing you everything happy for your birthday."
"Here's to another year of experience."
I guess the most disappointing part of this is that these cards are $1.99 - $2.99. So, I searched the world over and found this incredibly sweet blank card. I figured I could write better prose than some sweaty, bearded man working in a small shack in Istanbul who was writing these other cards. I picked out this one:
I loved it. After looking for hours and hours and reading really, really bad copy, I was ready to move on with presenting the card to my wife before she had another birthday. I turned it over......$6.95.
So what the card publishers are telling us is that really, we are better writers than they are. They know it. So cards that we make are naturally going to be worth more, because we are going to bring up the story about the guy in the place with the thing, and it was sooo funny, we laughed until we cried, etc., etc.
The cards they write are rubbish, so they are worthless.
RECESSION MONEY MAKING IDEA #152
Start a card company called Crap Cards. "We know it's crap, but hey - you didn't write it."
3 comments:
I'd buy your Crap Cards, LOL. I buy the birthday cards for work, and I HATE standing in that aisle, staring at all those cards. I don't think it's ever taken me less than 15-20 mins.
I totally agree.... And just a tip of advice... NEVER give Sean Thal ANY kind of Greeting Card. He thinks it is the LAMEST gift ever! Just give him the $1.99 in change instead. He could find better use for it! (Although, the best gift we gave him for his birthday this year were $.99 cards (about 10 of them) so that he never had to by anyone else a card ever again.... he thought that was pretty cool too.
I have to comment on that awesome new picture on your blog title. How did you get that shot? It was Jodi's doing, wasn't it. Your kids look awesome. Different colored shirts, in motion, the red/orange of the sand. Beautiful!
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