Perhaps I have is time again for you no birthday card Buythat Why choose a card in hand on a bought one? It is easy to see why. You at the time of the anniversary, hoping, and perhaps expect that your loved ones and make the effort to give you a card. What would you like most about what they think of you?
A purchase card could be given to any Tom, Dick or Harry? Or a map in hand they have taken time and effort more?
This is not rocket science really, is not it? What type of card is likely to be most appreciated, shared with others and kept as long ...?
Yes, while we might be impressed by the quality of a purchasing card (usually unlikely) or feeling (often tasteless), it is fairly certain that the facts in hand before it.
Now before you rush to the corner fearing that your hand will look home, not panic and look at the big picture - the emotion and feeling behind the thought.
1. Do you really think your family and pick Apart 'a labor supply?
2. Is it likely that control the eye of experts and the opinions of Nick scissors, glue all places and all the tiny ornaments as they take your card lovingly designed?
I think not! Hopefully they will be overwhelmed by the effort you have taken, the love you've provided, and the feelings and affection that you share you create a birthday card especially for them.
Of course, if you are known to be very much at these things, then there may be more confident about the type and complexity of the card you plan to give, but I think this is when the whole point Name of these occasions can become a bit out of proportion.
What, in essence, is the point of a birthday card, after all?
1. To show love and affection for the person's birthday
2. To mark the passing of another year
3. To celebrate making it through the last year
I only have three listed here, and you probably think of others.
The point of a birthday card at hand is to get 10 marks for your efforts is to share affection. Seen in this light, remove the pressure.
On the other side of things well, you should recognize how your card will be received (yes, even after you've been soul searching for how and why you do it first). It is hoped that the recipient will see in the spirit in which it was made.
Simply: you do it with love and receive love. It seems pretty obvious that you would not put in too much time and effort to make a birthday card for someone who has little chance of appreciating. Chances are that this person might not be on your birthday card list anyway and would not justify even a "shop-shopping on the card.
So what it boils down to is not the finished product, but the purpose and motivation behind the card.
Oh, I know it's easy for me to say. Yes, we should not really care about looks, but concentrate on the point of all this.
Maybe we should think about how we won in the card and gift process first. In the "old" there was nothing else to do - you've done your two cards and your donations. People are inventive in what they have created and everything has been accepted in the spirit in which it was intended.
But also, there was no other expensive solutions.
Do you really think you will be judged on the type of card you give?
It is true that we have trained in social exchange cards and gifts often without thinking about the actual cost of the process. What value do we place a card to someone we care?
Those craft in.
Posted on February 25, 2010.