“...they said Merry Christmas 2007. Message inside was to the effect that I had bought them on sale from that year and didn’t want to waste them.”
Ha ha! That’s great. My brother would have loved those. He got into a crazy thing for a while, he’d send you a card for your birthday, but all wacky. One year, he sent me a Bat Mitzvah card and it said “Best wishes & love from Uncle Hymie and Aunt Sadie” - something like that.
I wonder if I still have it?
How cool. Love funny cards. There is a store in Galveston that has some priceless ones. My dil and I go there just to read them and I always end up laughing so hard that tears run down my face. Neither my son nor grandson will go in that store with us. Says we embarrass them.
One I bought recently for my friend - who appreciates my weird sense of humor - has a bleached blond from the 70’s on the cover and inside says, “Which came first, the peroxide or the polyester”. It is sometimes hard to find someone who appreciates these though.