La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter...

[ewx]

...mais quand il ne reste rien à enlev.

People who want nothing to with Valentine's day look away now.

Now that they're gone, I'm sure there are even fewer non-crap cards this time round than usual. (Not that it's ever been exactly easy to sift the gems out of the slushy and crass.) Last year I had relatively little difficulty finding the right number of cards; had a choice, even. This year... actually, many more cards would be fine if they didn't have writing on. A card should be a substrate for whatever message I want to send, not come with someone else's message already there!

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Mmmm, some of the writing is awful, and is often inappropriate. I do sometimes buy blank cards for this reason, and Dawn has also been happy to receive not-quite-Valentine's cards that I thought were more appropriate. (For instance, my first fallback is to the general "love and best wishes" section.) Although, this year I had a surprisingly easy time from a small selection in a supermarket!