Happy Valentines Day Cards

Happy Valentines Day cards are second only to Christmas cards for the number of cards given each year. For children of elementary school age, Valentine cards are a perfect time to give a card to your secret crush without being embarrassed.

When I was in school (in much more innocent times) Mom would take us to the local five and dime to buy a box of 25 little valentine cards. Of course, the problem was that if your classroom had more than 25 students, then you were forced to buy an extra box. That wasn’t usually a problem, because while each one of us four siblings would get our own box of “kiddy” happy Valentines Day cards, Mom would buy an extra box to use to add those few extras that each of us needed so that no classmate was left out.

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Of course, in those pre-pc (politically correct) days, before teachers began insisting that every student had to give a card to every other student, it was quite common for some students to get left out or to at least get noticeably fewer cards than their more popular classmates. You know that girl in the class who was weird, or dressed funny, or that kid who was awkward or mean or whatever; every class had its share of students who got shorted in the card giving. Of course, there were always a few students whose parents insisted that they give a card to every one of their classmates, so it was very seldom that a girl or boy didn’t get at least one…even if it was the card that the teacher gave to them.

You could always tell the most popular kids in class because they would have the biggest collection of happy Valentines Day cards. While most of the cards were part of those kiddy boxes of cards, occasionally the prettiest girl in class would get a one-of-a-kind, elaborate card that made the other girls feel less than loved.

In those days the Valentines Day cards for kids featured cartoons, comic book characters, or animals with cutesy bits of verse or prose. Of course the most common was “Be my Valentine” or “Be Mine” or simply “Happy Valentines Day”.

I can remember taking that box of Happy Valentines Day cards and the list of classmates, and spending hours agonizing over which card should go to which boy or girl. It was very important that the sentiment expressed on the front of the card convey as closely as possible how I thought about the recipient. I didn’t want to give something too syrupy or sentimental to that kid who was a bully or a mean tease, or to that girl I didn’t like. Boy, am I glad those days are over!

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