It's a bit of a visual candy day on GWAS, but
I wanted to share my moment of greeting card enlightenment with you and also use the word "fungible" in a sentence (thank you, Dictionary.com!)...I am usually the type who will spend hours in David Jones labouring over which Christmas cards to buy for my nearest and dearest and associated persons, spending some hideous amount of money on stationery that will be appreciated for a fleeting minute before being discarded or drowned in a sea of other Christmas cards, depending on the popularity of the recipient.
Now, while I'm all for scoring presentation points and pride myself on the ability to coordinate gift wrap with cards (which is right up there with diagnosing diseases in small children), as per the interiors mag instructions, the absolute absurdity of my yearly perfect-card-hunting/much-money-spending ritual hit me yesterday when standing in line at IGA.
In my line of impulse-buying sight were a rack of assorted greeting cards in packs of 10 baring a 0.95c price tag! I was immediately taken back to primary school, when you bought stacks of these cards to give to classmates, reserving the prettiest ones for your friends and the popular girls and allocating the ones featuring the Three Wise Men or boring baubles to people who didn't rate as well on your terribly superficial social radar.
Now I'm MUCH older and more mature, I see these cards in all their retro glory as a more Christian and democratic way to do Christmas... even though they're made in communist China, which also sort of rubs against my feelings about commercialised junk produced at cut prices. But, you win some you lose some. Looking at the cute traditional illustrations on these cards, I couldn't help but smile for a while: they're a fine fungible proposition, indeed. It's going to be a cheap and cheerful Christmas in the world of GWAS.
Yours truly,
Girl With a Satchel
7 comments:
Think I'll stick with the boring cards for the boring people ;) 3 wise men for the great aunts...
Erica, I think you just stepped inside my retro mind! And it's possible that i gave and received all of these prints during primary school - thanks for the nostalgic reminder! :)
Ha ha, I know what you mean about saving the 'good' cards. These are a retro delight. However, this year I am buying mine from the lost dogs home.
this year i am gonna create a cards which will have calender for the next year and will gift to all my friends. i will share my card when i will get it done.
haha my, I actually recognise some of these cards.still have them lying around somewhere!
I too picked the "best" cards for my favourite friends. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face with this memory :-)
These cards are very nostalgic, but I think I prefer more simple designs and minimalistic feels. Probably because I intend to make most of mine to save money :) Looking for a cheap Christmas this year.
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