Bunnyshop has a mental disorder, one which is specifically limited to the mailing of letters. Well, other things, too, like rent checks and tax forms, but it is particularly problematic with cards. Because they don’t get mailed. Bunnyshop recently discovered a birthday card intended for her godson’s third birthday. The child is now five years old. In her backpack are two postcards, for the godson and his wee brother, that have neither been stamped nor written.
E-mail is not a substitue for letter-writing. Here is a transcript of a recent e-mail correspondence between Bunnyshop and a former roommate:
dude? thursday?
dunno
need 2 buy tkts now
dude. don’t know.
your fault if sells out
dude. pls.
And don’t even get us started on IM. Bunnyshop believes — she is not sure, because she has never sent a birthday card prior to the recipient’s actual birthday, but she believes strongly that there are likely only three steps to mailing letters:
1: Having cards on hand
2: Having stamps on hand
3: Depositing stamped cards in mailbox.
How easy! How concise! So little effort, with such expansive results. What do we say? Let’s start a revolution. A revolution of letter-writing. Think how lovely it would be if everyone reading this sent a note to some nice person. For example, Bunnyshop is going to write a thank-you note to the wonderful, wonderful manager of the sushi restaurant near her apartment, without which she would eat only cereal and raisin toast for dinner, every night. And perhaps he will feel compelled to write a kind note to his dry-cleaner. People. This will be just like Pay It Forward, without sucking. It will be magical. Join us. Tell us who you mail, and we’ll mail you a note. This is going to be thoroughly excellent.
The boxed notes above, from Elum Designs, have stickers. Stickers!
Have you seen the ads for the new show on A+E? Intervention? With the shopping addict? Yeah, Bunnyshop’s a little freaked out by that, because she has the weakness. For example, she once convinced herself that spending $400 on calling cards was a perfectly rational thing to do. She didn’t, but if she could, she would, and there’s no doubt that they’d be from anywhere but Smythson. These notecards are $40. Which is much less than $400.
We’ve often thought how much we’d like for movie theaters to have some sort of smell-o-vision, where you could smell what’s going on. The reality is that is a terrible idea. But cards? That’s an amazing idea, that unfortunately we did not have ourselves. But Jack and Lulu did. These are scratch and sniff. We almost can’t believe it.
We also found these on the terrific design site urbanstyle.com. These cards from Unique Artistry have fringe. These are the kinds of cards we would make ourselves, if we had the time, money, ingenuity, stick-to-it-ive-ness, and work ethic. We will be forced to purchase them instead.
Believe it or not, we’ve been crazy looking for things with engraved cows on them. Oh, that sounds ridiculous. But it’s true. And these cards from the Victor Trading Co. are exactly what we wanted. We are quite sure that this is the kind of adult-onset dementia that will end in like 500 cow figurines, cow pot holders, cow welcome mats littered throughout our apartment.
