I’ve been searching for them for the last couple of hours! (in between making posts to this board, taking a shower, checking my email, and so forth) Where the heck could they be? They’re certainly not where I thought I left them last year, and it shouldn’t take that long to search for them. (even given that my apartment is kind of messy)
So who wants to own up to the disappearance of my Christmas cards and stuff? Anybody?
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Er, sorry. See, mine disappeared in The Move of 2002, and since yours were just sitting there at the back of the closet I figured you wouldn’t mind. Besides, Target doesn’t have theirs out yet and I just couldn’t wait. If I don’t get mine out this week, my friend will have hers mailed and I’ll lose the contest for the fourth year in a row. And you don’t want to know what that means.
They gravitated to my home, where I run into surplus Christmas cards all the time, even in July. They never quit popping up, the evil little buggers. And the worst part of all, they’re always in Spanish! Arrrrgh!
Want some of my cards, Flami-o?
Don’t worry, you’ll find them around Memorial Day! That’s what happens every year in my house, at least. I have no idea where they go, but they do come back.
My mother, who runs her house like an elite military force, purchases her cards on Dec. 26 (of course) and then packs them in the box with the Halloween decorations so they will pop up in October. I’m quite sure is she probably done with this year’s Christmas cards by now. I might try this someday, however the mere thought of dragging out my box of Halloween decorations in December when I am drowning in a sea of Christmas clutter makes me weep.
Ha, ha! I, like Delphica’s mother, buy my cards on December 26, and then squirrel them away with the Christmas decoration. I already have my Christmas card list set up in Access, and all I have to do is print out labels, slap 'em on., and one more delightful aspect of the holidays is done.
I have put the old Christmas cards somewhere. With luck, I know where this “somewhere” is. But I’m not even going to consider the possibility of looking until mid Nov.