The tradition of greeting cards, such as those sent to wish someone a happy new year, can be traced all the way back to the early Chinese and Egyptians. Over the next 400 years they travelled across the globe to Europe and were eventually brought to America where we now find the artistic poetry you see at every grocery and drug store. And for the ultra modern, there is now, thanks to the internet free greetings cards and e greetings cards.
Greeting cards are sent for many different occasions. There are thank you cards to send when a person has done something nice or thoughtful for you. There are also happy birthday cards and get well cards. These are both sent for obvious reasons. Cards relating to love have even been used in marriage proposals. These cards became the standard in the mid 1800's. The invention of machines, such as the printing press, made the mass production of greeting cards a now very lucrative industry. The blue mountain cards company produces millions of New Year’s cards every year and delivers them to stores around the world for resale.
Companies have brainstormed through the centuries to invent and or design a card for every personality. Various kinds of artwork, from folkart to impressionism, have been bought and displayed on the covers. Inside the cards, your message can say whatever it is you are feeling because chances are, someone else out there has felt that way and written it down. From simple one liner to catch phrases to poems, there is a card to express your heart. There are even cards that are blank on the inside so you can tell that special person, in your own words, just how you really feel. And within the last several years, cards have been made with recorders so you can record your message and have it heard every time the card is opened. Go check out the card aisle and you will find that the old saying is true-there really is a card for every occasion.
