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😊 I realize stamps are ridiculously expensive (for stamps)

From: Wahoo Find all posts by Wahoo View Wahoo's profile Send private message to Wahoo
Date: Wed, 06-May-2026 8:39:59 AM PDT
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In topic: MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU Weekly Potpourri posted by chloe
In reply to: I agree Vicky! posted by ladyday
these days but you can still get some pretty decent cards at Dollar Tree 2/$1. In June, I stock up, thanks to all the family birthdays in June plus Father's Day.

And I enjoy shopping for them too.

I do and I don't enjoy card shopping. On the one hand, I dislike it because I have to read what feels like dozens of cards to find one that says what I want it to. Or rather, I look for cards that DON'T say certain things. For example, going back to Father's Day...I like to get Dad both a funny card and a serious card. Funny cards usually involve jokes about golf scores, flatulence, having control over the TV remote or being, um, let's be charitable and just say excessively under one's wife's control (I wanted to use the phrase that ends with "whipped" and begins with a word related to cats or can preface "willow"). None of those are applicable to Dad. I usually have more success with the serious ones but I try not to get anything too gushy or wordy because that's not Dad either <g>. OTOH, I love finding *the* perfect card.

Funny thing, I went to two weddings this past Fall and shopped for pretty cards to insert cash gifts. Ended up not using one of them. So I now have a really pretty blank wedding card....should I get invited to another one before I forget where I put it, lol.

When Mom was still alive, she worried about not having the perfect card for any occasion, and she never knew when she'd be able to go out and get one, especially in her later years when she didn't drive. She had--and we still have--a box full of cards for almost every occasion. She used to get Mother's Day cards for her DILs...I don't think Dad sends those (especially not to the EX-DIL) so they're just sitting in the box. A couple years ago, I did take some of our extra cards to church. We have an area where you can leave things for other parishioners to take and there's one specific spot for cards you're not going to use. A lot of the older members of the congregation still send paper cards as does our pastor.

I just shopped for a Mother's Day card for my Aunt Cindy last weekend. I remember when they would have several "for aunt" options. No more. There were Mother/Mom, etc. and Wife (never made sense to me) and a handful of Grandmother ones. But not a single Aunt card. There were some that were supposedly "for anyone". But they were not. Literally all of them had the word MOM in them. Also none of the "Like a Mother to Me" cards. I used to get those for my step-mother and sometimes for my aunt. I finally found a generic card that looked pretty. I signed it and sent it off to my aunt in Atlanta.

Wow...I can't believe there's no "like a mother to me" cards. Something that was said at our church once that really stuck with me: we give small Mother's Day gifts to every adult woman in our church regardless of whether they're a mother or not. When asked why we do that, our pastor said (I'm paraphrasing slightly here) "Every woman has people--or pets--in her life that she winds up 'mothering' and we want to honor that". I always thought that was very sweet...and totally true. I spent 2 years at my previous job mothering (in a way) my younger co-workers.

And I'm realizing that my Aunt Cindy is now the cheese stands alone. She is the last remaining maternal figure I have in my life. 😢

(((hugs))) That's a hard realization to come to. I'm in a similar boat with my Aunt Linda...but she's not exactly a warm, nurturing type so no Mother's Day card for her from me.


[Edited by Wahoo on Wed, 06-May-2026 8:40:34 AM PDT]
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