I come from a big family, and by the time I buy birthday cards for my husband, my children, their spouses, my grandchildren, my siblings, siblings-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles - and then I add friends from the neighborhood, friends at church, coworkers at school, and other friends - it adds up to a lot of birthday cards over the course of a year. I typically buy birthday cards at the grocery store or a department store as an “add-on” when I’m there shopping for other things. After doing a little bit of math, I figured that at a minimum of $2.50 per card (and often at least a dollar more), that adds up to a conservative estimate of a couple hundred dollars a year just for birthday cards. I knew there had to be a better way to purchase birthday cards without resorting to those cheap looking cards that come in boxes at the discount stores.
After surfing the internet, I found a source of personalized birthday cards online - Cards Direct. Did you catch the “personalized” part of what I just wrote? These aren’t your standard buy-at-the-grocery-store birthday cards. These are personalized cards. You can select the exterior design of the card (like my favorite one pictured above - and there are lots of exterior designs to choose from), and then you decide what is printed on the inside. Cards are a wonderful and inexpensive way to let people know you care about then, and I’m glad I discovered a way to make the cards I send even more special.
