I suck.
These stupid compass rings stand for so much of what I hate: buying junk and giving people crap.
Remember when it was easy (and oh, the horror...possibly edible) and you could just scotch tape a sucker onto your card?
So, what was my favorite piece of crap from Henry's Valentine's cards from yesterday?
Yep, the Valentine card that just cut to the chase.
The one that wasn't crap at all... it was the one with a quarter taped on.
How I adore her parents right now.
It says "instead of me buying junk, I'm going to give you money, the money I would have spent on whatever."
Brilliant!
Of course, Henry, right away, wondered what he could buy with a quarter.
crap
11 comments:
Now that's a good idea. Too much junk in the world. I took my daughter to a b-day party last weekend and instead of giving out token bags of junk they gave each kid a CD they had burned of the b-day girls favorite songs. LOVE this idea!
I am seriously shocked at the craziness of Valentine's Day this year. Maybe I've been living in a cave for awhile, but I thought that cut-out Barbie cards with a conversation heart inside the envelope was still enough for the average elementary school kid. Apparently not. My kids are screwed.
Totally genius.
Also? We so taped lollipops onto our valentines?
Mommy hell, reservation for one?
:)
I, too, felt the pressure of Valentine's Day this year. Good grief, people, it's not Christmas! Anyway, I took the easy way out and filled the bags with cheapo plastic rules and a pencil. Another mom did the exact same thing.
Oh well.
LOVE IT! Neither of my kids wanted to include treats with their Valentine cards this year - not suckers, not erasers, not bouncy balls, not pencils...
Not sure why...but that was just fine with me...and no one seemed to mind? At least, not that I've discovered yet! ;)
The quarter? BRILLIANT!
this stresses me out.
Oh very smart idea! My kids just gave cards without anything tapped to them
that is ingenious! Or how ever that word is spelled. There is too much for us to do as is
I really like that quarter idea. That truly is a stroke of genius.
Although I know my kids would have been all over the compass rings.
Two of the three teachers we have with three kids didn't even send a list of names. The note said there are "X" students in the class. Please bring "X" cards that are simply signed with your child's name. The cards my kids picked happened to come with the suckers to tape on at the same price of the packages of cards. I'm gonna put this quarter idea in my pocket for next year though.
Ha, a quarter! Why didn't I think of that? This year my youngest son had his last Valentines Day school exchange (unless they do that in middle school nowadays, please tell me they don't) and I was so relieved. I don't love that my boys have grown up so fast, but I sure as heck won't miss the obligatory school party stuff.
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