Do You Still Use Paper Greeting Cards?

Maybe this is just a reflection of the state of the world, but few things make my day like receiving a greeting card in the mail with a handwritten message inside. And I try to send out as many as I can, for this reason. I've also gotten into the habit of sending holiday cards at Christmas.

Ecards ... just not the same, no matter how much thought goes into them.

Also, OP, I bought a birthday card for my cousin the other day. Hallmark ... only $2.

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I find cards a bit too effeminate, but I do write notes on Crane stationery. (The good stuff, from before they started stamping a logo on everything for the plebs)

OP? Try Dollar Tree for inexpensive brand name greeting cards.

And yes, I buy some cards. My bff just turned 70 -- that's a milestone! -- and I got her a birthday card.

Some people and occasions just deserve it.

I haven't sent an ecard since the 90s. I buy cards to attach to gifts, and mail cards to my parents for birthdays, holidays, etc.

However, my elderly father absolutely loves elaboraTe e-cards, with animated butterflies flying out of baskets in an English meadow or some shit. He goes crazy over them.

I refuse to send them, but do concede to give him regular cards for occasions. He leaves them up at his house for a bit, then gives them back to me to save. He gives me all the other cards people send him as well, and I’m forbidden from throwing them away, so I keep them in my storage unit.

But he likes the flying butterflies way more 🤷🏻‍♂️

I like to get cards. I will sit and reread them a million times while crying.

I use actual cards and notes in situations where demonstrating thoughfulness and putting in effort actually matter.

I got in the e-card habit during pandemica. I don’t have to send any until next year. Not sure what I’ll do. I’ve never been a card person and they’re so expensive now.

Shutterfly has sales every couple of months where you can make a dozen cards or so and just pay shipping, and I've done it so many times now that I have an enormous box of blank cards with images I have chosen for the fronts - it's gotten me into sending cards for everything. I bought several packs of Forever Stamps at the start of the pandemic and I'm all set for awhile

Yes, the females in my family are into cards too. I get mine at 99 cents only.

Only for old people's birthdays because I know it means something to them.

I like making personalized art-cards for friends and family. I paint or embroider the recipients’ favorite flowers, images from inside jokes and memories. They’re like cards+ presents.

My hag enjoys it when I send her a folded piece of paper with stick figures and speech balloons of our antics.

^ so I do it once a year

You should ask friends and family to write their greetings on a separate piece of paper placed inside the card, that way you can reuse the card. Another idea is to use craft paper that you cut out and glue over the writing on the card, but that one's kind of tricky...if you're not creative about it, well it could look tacky.

YES!! I'm buying birthday cards for friends this weekend!!

I can't believe you people are obsessing about the cost of greeting cards. They're literally $1 at the dollar store. They're not the most stylish or creative cards, but they get the job done.

At Christmas, to maybe 20 people. And for birthdays in the immediate family.

Yeah, nice cards are expensive nowadays. If I care enough to send a card, I'm gonna pick the nicest one I can find.

I do end up writing condolence cards a lot. Some of those cards are wack ("God' will is mysterious," etc.).

I had some really nice Crane note cards & envelopes. The inside of the envelope flap was some type of beautiful red pattern with a bit of gold in it, maybe paisley.

The Spanish cards are always on clearance. Sometimes the Mahogany ones too you cheap fuks

Feliz Navidad, bitches

Boomers love cards. I mean LOVE.

- The My Elderly Father Troll

r20 I've been looking for some elegant holiday cards. It turns out Crane has a great selection.

Thanks!

The frauen go apeshit for those elaborate pop up cards.

I know this from my hag. Then I found out they’re $20 or something crazy!

R16 I hope to hell that was a joke. You never know with the cheap bitches on the DL.

If it keeps them from scrap-booking, I'm all for it.

I agree that good cards have become ridiculously overpriced. During the lockdown, I realized I needed to find another way to buy cards. So I now mostly use two options: American Greetings (website; subscription) lets you customize and print out your own cards and envelopes. (You have to buy the blank cards/envelopes, of course.)

And GreetingCardUniverse sells individual or bulk cards that you can also customize (but they print them.) You can have them delivered to you in case you want to write on them or enclose something, or you can have them sent directly to the recipient for just the cost of the postage. They have tons of LGBT content (although most of it is pretty bad.)

I send my nieces and nephews some birthday cash in dollar store cards. I include a SASE containing a blank thank you note.

Another good trick for holiday cards - I buy several boxes of MoMA's Christmas cards after Christmas when they're on sale for 10-12 bucks a box, which is about a dollar a card (they're twice that the rest of the time). And then I just store them away for the next year. They have really elaborate pop-up cards that everybody I send to seems to enjoy and appreciate, especially the people with kids.

Most companies have given up on sending holiday cards, too, which seems to be tacky cheap.

Fucking hell, you grannies are old - and I'm 60.

Dollar stores have a few with decent designs, actually. They used to be two for a dollar and I’d stock up. I’d also get card stock and make them.

I think the greeting card companies have priced themselves out of business. I also find the writing inside to be a bit nauseating and a turn off. I only give my mother a birthday card. I did also send an old friend battling cancer a card this week.

What are those?

I'm a bit of a card snob, but they're expensive so I buy a set of blank, all occasion ones complete with envelopes from Walmart. They're branded cards (ex. Hallmark) and work out to about a dollar a piece. They come in a box of a dozen with 3 or 4 different art themes. I love the animal themed ones.

R29, the SASE thank yous is priceless. You're my kind of guy.

I saved all of the ones my mother sent me over the years, because I knew the day would come when I wouldn't get a card for every holiday. Oh, how I miss new ones in the mailbox.

As a child I loved taping Christmas cards all around the doorway between the living room and kitchen. That was back when my family would receive and send a hundred or so. Now I mail out about 20. I found a nice sealed box at Salvation Army for 2 bucks. Now I'm all set for this year but I'd give anything to have more family alive to send cards to...

The best kept secret in town is that Hallmark cards are two for a dollar at the Dollar Tree, plus they have other ones at a dollar apiece, and an extensive selection of thank you cards and other prepackaged notecards.

I like to add glitter and confetti in with the cards I send.

I like sending nates in class while lunching.

Would you please send me Season 1 Nate Fisher, please, R42. Thanks in advance!

Hi!!!