****ing Greeting Cards!

[Warped]

When I was a kid, I hated cards! Who else hated cards and still hates cards? Everyone knows why you are there, for a birthday, graduation, etc. But for birthdays opening presents, the cards were really annoying unless there was money in them. So pointless too. Thats why I stopped giving my nephews and nieces cards for their birthdays. Screw that! Just let them know who its from and let them rip the gifts open. Plus I can spend more money on the actual gifts if I don't buy a $4 piece of paper.

Anyone else feel the same way??

 

[Raziaar]

I am not a big fan of gift giving or receiving at all, really.

It's just not my thing.

 

[Shakermaker]

Bought a postcard today, to send to a friend who is in the hospital. It was a picture of a double rainbow. I am quite sure he won't get it.

EDIT The joke that is. I am quite sure the Dutch post will get it there.

 

[CyberPitz]

I think they are a giant waste of time, money and effort.

 

[Stigmata]

I love cards. Not all of them. I never feel anything for those anachronistic poetic ones, or the joke cards that try too hard. But some of them.

 

[VirusType2]

I pretty against cards. Just a waste. They are okay if you can't see someone face to face. Personally, I'd rather get a letter with something meaningful written in it. Cards are usually some generic message with 'Happy Birthday' underlined, and 'Love, [Name]'.

 

[MJ12]

Obviously a bunch of people here who buy cards from Walmart. There are actually some awesome cards out there.
A few I have been given over the years and have on my wall. The first is vintage, and printed in Germany-

 

[Mogi67]

I hate greeting cards. I dread having to get them for my family, because I feel like I'm supposed to write a heartfelt and meaningful message and it's just so contrived. If I have something personal to tell someone then I'll have a conversation, not tell them with a ****ing hallmark card. It's such a stupid tradition. The only thing greeting cards are good for is giving money as a gift.

Postcards are cool though

 

[Shem]

Cards are nice if they're actually funny instead of having a bland taste. There are a lot of generic greeting cards out there that end up being completely forgotten or thrown in the trash, but there are others that actually make the person reading it smile, maybe even laugh. These are the cards that I find suitable. The cards that have their own uniqueness, and, of course, money inside.

 

[Dynasty]

99% of all cards I recieve end up in the recycling bin.

Or in this case just the bin as they're seen as card rather than paper so the recycling guys wont take it twice a week, which is the most retarded thing ever seeing as everything comes in cardboard these days.

I get a laugh from the reciever every birthday as I never buy a card unless it's funny. Or, well, what Hallmark declares funny. Who has the final say I will never know, he cant be that humorous to be honest.

Cards and Easter are probably one of the biggest contributors to 100%, absolutley, unarguably, irrefutable waste of resources.

Firstly, any kid with half a brain will know rabbits dont lay eggs.

And for god sake, the box it comes in is only that big so the company can slap their logo on it and paint it in pretty colours. I dont want 20 extra bars of chocolate with the egg I'm reluctantly buying. And then it's wrapped in tin-foil, and then encased in a plastic cocoon that takes up the whole of the inside of the box.

Ban Easter. Waste of time, money and trees.

Now if you'll excuse me, there are trees that are feeling blue and need some hugs.

 

[Warped]

99% of all cards I recieve end up in the recycling bin.

Or in this case just the bin as they're seen as card rather than paper so the recycling guys wont take it twice a week, which is the most retarded thing ever seeing as everything comes in cardboard these days.

I get a laugh from the reciever every birthday as I never buy a card unless it's funny. Or, well, what Hallmark declares funny. Who has the final say I will never know, he cant be that humorous to be honest.

Cards and Easter are probably one of the biggest contributors to 100%, absolutley, unarguably, irrefutable waste of resources.

Firstly, any kid with half a brain will know rabbits dont lay eggs.

And for god sake, the box it comes in is only that big so the company can slap their logo on it and paint it in pretty colours. I dont want 20 extra bars of chocolate with the egg I'm reluctantly buying. And then it's wrapped in tin-foil, and then encased in a plastic cocoon that takes up the whole of the inside of the box.

Ban Easter. Waste of time, money and trees.

Now if you'll excuse me, there are trees that are feeling blue and need some hugs.

nice quality post there. what i noticed was that my nephew and niece opened their gifts right away, without even noticing that there was no card. then they perked up when they saw what was inside and that was all that mattered. Sometimes when they're around I slip them some money for whatever they want to buy because as we all know, children are the poorest

 

[Lucid]

Eat shit.
I buy cards and enjoy receiving them.

Mostly because the people who give them to me have a pretty good sense of humor.

 

[dfc05]

Postcards are nice. Usually I'll keep those. I know a girl who asks people to send her postcards whenever they travel, and then she puts them around a giant world map with a string identifying where it came from. Pretty cool.

One of my friend sends me really awesome Arbor Day Foundation cards as gifts and stuff. Basically you pay $5 for a recycled-paper card and the Arbor Day Foundation will use the money to plant a tree.

I'm not a huge fan of generic greeting cards. If I must get them, I usually purposefully get one that's terribly inappropriate. Like elementary school graduation cards for people graduating from college. Apart from that, if I really want to send a birthday card or something, I make it myself.

 

[Naph]

I create all my cards. Doesn't leave a cheap feeling.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Obviously a bunch of people here who buy cards from Walmart. There are actually some awesome cards out there.

Those would appear to be postcards.

 

[MJ12]

Those would appear to be postcards.

One of them isn't pal!

 

[Bad^Hat]

Apologies, sir, I stand one quarter corrected.

 

[Yuri]

New point of the thread: 3/4 Greeting Cards are Postcards (????)

 

[Krynn72]

I hate sending them. I hate sending birthday cards, thank you cards, get well cards, all of them. People should stop having birthdays/getting sick/giving me presents so I don't have to send them anymore.

 

[Warped]

I hate sending them. I hate sending birthday cards, thank you cards, get well cards, all of them. People should stop having birthdays/getting sick/giving me presents so I don't have to send them anymore.

In a perfect world yes!!! but in reality we all have to bite the bullet

and yesssss I know sarcasm when I see it