Jog on Hallmark .. Jog on ...

I love my wife (probably don't tell her enough, but I do), but refuse to pay a stupid amount of money on a card written by to someone else ... So, in true tongue-sticking-out-with-concentration style, I made her a Valentines card :

I don't like how the card companies have taken over ... We don't send Christmas cards at all, instead we make a donation to a charity (This year it was the Salvation Army, so someone else could have a good Christmas), but stuff like Valentines Day and 'Grandparents Day' (What's that all about?!) seem like money-spinners for the card companies to me. If I dabbled in shares, I'd be buying into Hallmark or the like - The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year, behind Christmas -think how much money was spent on those cards? How many trees were used to make them and their envelopes ... (look at me, going all green on yo'ass ...!). who keeps the cards from years gone by?

I have friends who love the concept and really go to town on the whole idea, and I have other friends who disagree with being told when they can tell their loved one that they love them. But me? Birthdays, Mothers Day, anniversaries, from now on it's home-made cards all the way, as to me that's a deeper expression of love, something made from the heart.

Hallmark ... do one ...!