My mom got my dad one of those pop up greeting cards for his birthday today.
Now you remember these cards right? They’re thick and square, and you open them up and a whole world pops up. It’s like a pop up children’s book only it’s a greeting card. Obviously.
The one my mom got for my dad featured a 3-dimensional grill and the title “Happy Birthday Grillmaster”. My dad was reasonably impressed which is a pretty good reaction from my dad.
The card came with an awesome ad for their Collectors’ Club.
I remember being very enamored with these cards as a kid and I’m sure I wasn’t alone. But would I really want to collect them all?
Up With Paper (really? you named your company that??) certainly thinks I would. They offer a monthly club where for only $22.00 a month plus $4.00 shipping and handling a month — wait…what does that make it…um…hold on a second…okay got it — so for only $26 a month — I can be delivered four (4!!!) different pop-up greeting cards each month!
Oh my god. My life is complete!
But wait, there’s more.
Card designs range from traditional to funky, including all types of art, characters and s ending occasions.
Oh thank goodness, finally there is a way for me to celebrate all of those “s ending occasions”! Of which I can’t think of a single one.*
And finally I can fill those shelves that have been sitting vacant and gathering dust waiting for the collection of a lifetime.
For those of you who would like to join this club and are offended by my heavily sarcastic tone, I’m sure you can do so at the Up With Paper website. Oh no, I just checked their website and you can’t. It seems that this idea only warranted a paper ad. Well, that’s the first good judgment I’ve noticed from them.
*Omg. I was just rereading this post for the THIRD time before publishing it and I realized that’s a typo. It’s supposed to be “sending occasions.” Now who’s the fool? Me for taking so long to realize that? Or them for having such a perplexing typo and club to begin with? I need your help. Weigh in in the comments.
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