Excess
Reading Patent Pending and his anecdote about waiting in line for Christmas cards reminded me of my own Christmas card problems. Though, unlike him, my problem is that I buy too many cards. Case in point: in early November I ordered the cutest matching Christmas cards and labels from a catalog. Around that time I also found a box of leftover cards from, I'm guessing, three or four years ago. I was stoked at the find.

Then, when rooting around in a box in our basement, I found two more half-used boxes of cards, from two years ago and last year, respectively. More stoke-age.

And that didn't stop me from buying the cutest pack of cards at Tar-jay over the weekend. Whee!

On Christmas tree decorating day, I dug further into the Box o' Decorations and found an unopened box of cards that I bought at Tar-jay last year! Which brings our grand total of boxes of cards to 6.

And the kicker: I write, maybe, 30 cards at the most per year. So I'll have at least 4 boxes left over when all is said and done. Either that or I need more friends. Send me your address -- I'll send you Christmas greetings!