You know what I can’t get enough of looking at but never ever buy? Address labels. I kid you not.
You know how you get those flyers in the mail with all kinds of check designs, and address labels, and checkbooks? Yeah, I will pore over those with agonizing detail…. and then not order any of them. I have no idea why this is. I didn’t have a book of checks with my correct name on it for about 2 1/2 years after I got married. And then? I got as far as picking out the address labels, and decided that I might as well just hand write my name on all of the 3 envelopes that I send out every year.
However, a good friend of mine taught me a trick several years ago, and this is a good reason to actually pick out some good designs- every time she lent out a book that she wanted back? She’d stick address labels inside the cover of the book. Brilliant! And now I have a stack of more than a dozen books to lend to a friend, and I’ve got to get to ordering!
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Ah, but then comes the real dilemma – what colors? What style goes with every book? What’s going to withstand the test of time? What’s going to look tacky by tomorrow?
I have the same damn problem.
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Oooh, now I want to order some too. I used to get them free for donating money to various causes, but I think the charities are cutting corners like that these days.
I often get them as guilt inducers from charities and causes. You know, they send them first so that I’ll feel guilty for getting free stuff and send them money. But, there are A LOT of causes that I believe in, and couldn’t even afford to donate a dollar to each one. So, I choose carefully who I donate to, though I’m not usually so careful about when.
Besides, I’m so anti-conformist, I never like to use anything that everyone else has. I’ve always got to choose something with personality.