Choosing the Perfect Greeting Card

The past couple weeks I haven't been doing too bad with spending money. I've kept the spending to a fairly low minimum. However, this week seems to have taken a pretty big hit. I went shopping the other day for a birthday present for my sister and I had to buy some makeup (yes, HAD to because makeup I can't live without!). Then I bought a voice recorder for my interviews, because it's a lot easier than borrowing from the school. And then I had to pay for my license as well. Everything seemed to pile up this week. The next couple of months don't look too great either because I have a baptism in November and then it's the holiday season! But at least I will get to work more when school is out for the holidays.

But the main point of my blog today is my visit to Wal-mart (one of many). I needed to buy a few thank you cards. Now you can buy the thank you cards that come pre-boxed for around $5.00. However, I am very picky about greeting cards. Sounds weird right? I take choosing a greeting card very seriously. I have to be sure to properly qualify the card to the person. I could have bought the boxed cards that were all the same. However, three of the four thank you cards were going to people who all knew each other. I could not give three people the same generic thank you card, that just would not do. The people are all different in their own way, therefore, they deserve their own personal card. So it took me about 20 minutes to find the proper thank you cards for everyone. That's usually the norm for me in the greeting card department. I can spend a long time there trying to find the right greeting card. Most people probably don't even care about the greeting card that they get with their present. Or, if they just receive a greeting card, they probably don't read the whole thing. But to me it's a big deal and it means something to me to buy the person the perfect greeting card.

So instead of paying the $5.00 for 10 generic boxed cards, I spent $20.00 on four cards today. You may think I'm crazy, but to me it's worth the money. I like to think of it as me caring for the person and not a weird condition. But you are entitled to your own opinion...

Decisions, Decisions!